Over the past year, psychics and Tarot card readers saw a boom in business— so did a serious uptick in complaints of fraudulent psychics and spiritual advisors to AARP’s Helpline. Astrologers’ grew their $2.2 billion industry, kicked off with a spike in Google searches for “coronavirus astrology” last March. There’s the malarkey of QAnon, set down by their prophet Q. And among the charismatic Christian set, there’s been a flood of armchair prophets building a following on YouTube.
