An anthropologist asks what algorithms and astrology have in common in a digital era of predictive technologies. By putting faith in these predictions, whether they're based on AI, the supernatural, physical, or divination, we may be foreclosing other possibilities we haven’t yet imagined.

"He eats bread and drinks beer but it does not go well for him, then says, ‘Oh, my heart!’ and is dejected."

In nineteenth-century New England, it was held to be essential to whisper to beehives of a loved one’s death.