Astrology's claim on modern life anchors this episode of the In Search Of series, hosted by Leonard Nimoy. He traces the practice back to Babylonian and Egyptian skywatchers who once treated astrology and astronomy as the same pursuit, before scientific advances split the two apart and left astrology without institutional credibility. The episode interviews people who consult horoscopes and natal charts for real decisions, from careers to relationships, alongside skeptics who call the whole system pseudoscience. It walks through how a natal chart is built and what the twelve zodiac signs are supposed to reveal about personality, then follows astrology into newspaper columns and the New Age movement of the 1970s. Nimoy narrates in his familiar deadpan, staying deliberately neutral, presenting both the believers' conviction and the scientific objections without settling the argument himself. It runs as one episode within the broader In Search Of anthology, which spent its run applying the same even-handed treatment to other unexplained and fringe topics.