From Slate:

A Very Amateur Astrological Reading of A Star Is Born Examining the birth chart of the new Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga movie.

By DANIEL SCHROEDER and HEATHER SCHWEDEL OCT 11, 2018 7:30 AM A Star Is Born is the most important film event of the year, but thus far its resonance with that other important 2018 cultural touchstone, astrology—newly in vogue thanks to millennials, the internet, and perhaps the terribleness of the rest of the world—has gone unremarked upon. That ends now. Stars, birth … obviously A Star Is Born is just calling out for an astrological reading. Slate staffers and amateur—very amateur—astrologists Daniel Schroeder and Heather Schwedel decided to call up the movie’s birth chart in order to mine it for celestial insights that other critics and prognosticators may have missed.

Keep in mind that the astrological theme is being played, sort of, for laughs as a way to get some more clicks to a tired staple of online journalism content generation: two staffers talk about a movie they saw over the weekend.

But this reminds me of an observation I tweeted a month ago:

What’s going on at Slate? It always used to be run by smart Jewish guys, like Kinsley, Weisberg, and Plotz. Now they’ve got, I think, a gentile lady editing it. It seems pretty successful, but it’s not very interesting for smart males anymore. More of a Woman’s Magazine now. 11:44 AM – 12 Sep 2018

The ladies of Slate responded with a collective “Well, I never!” at the idea that Slate is now, more or less, a Woman’s Magazine. I added: