Was a Black Woman the earliest published Horoscope Writer?

**Discover another side of Zora Neale Hurston**

No, not in the classic “Sun sign column” sense…

But what if I told you she may have been the earliest published Black woman to document the esoteric systems that influenced what would later become horoscopes?

Because Zora didn’t just tell stories.
She recorded spells timed by the Moon.
She preserved rituals passed down through generations.
She archived the cosmologies of Hoodoo, Voudou, and African spiritual science—when most of the world called them superstition.

Zora was writing the soul of the stars before the stars became commercial.
She didn’t write about Aries season or retrogrades.
But she wrote about rhythm. Spirit. Timing.
The very blueprint that makes horoscopes work.

This is the part of our history we weren’t taught—
Where Black women, like Zora, were already working with cosmic tools.
Already tracking time through Spirit.
Already embodying astrology before it had that name.

So no—Zora wasn’t the first horoscope writer.
But she was one of the first to whisper the sky into the page.

And we’re just beginning to remember.

The recent hit movie “Sinners” depicts the same story Zora was telling, our native Souls live on.