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Astrology seems like such a strange thing for a Haskell developer to be spending her time on. I wouldn't think twice about it if the back-end was written in Python, but I just find it strange that she's sharp enough to be a Haskell pioneer, but still thinks the positions of stars influences what approach you should take in a relationship.

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You probably don't need to believe in astrology to work there. Perhaps she just feels that this is a simple and mostly harmless way to separate some irrational individuals from their money. Which, on the whole, is probably a net benefit to society: If they weren't spending their discretionary funds on $20 astrology-themed in-app purchases they might instead put it toward something really dangerous.

It's possible to think that astrology is useful even if the positions of celestial bodies don't actually matter.

Useful in what sense then? The placebo effect?

I use it as a psychological projection tool. I use divinatory tools like astrology, tarot, or the I Ching to examine how I'm perceiving and processing my circumstances. Seeing what fits, what doesn't, what I want to fit, and what I want not to fit. imo, folks that say it "isn't real" are missing the point.

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