Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
MMM-Astrology MagicMirror Crash
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After doing git and adding config my MagicMirror will not start and goes to black screen and I can’t exit out. I have to power down Pi to start over. Here is a picture of what I get. Since it locks me out I have to video tape the screen and then capture the picture.

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In the MMM-Astrology folder is a node_helper.js file. The very first character on the very first line (line 1) is an * character. You can put a backslash character in front of that * so that line (line 1) looks like this:
/* Magic MirrorThat will allow the module to run. I just tested it.
I’ll ask the author to fix the repo.
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I fixed the issue and sent the author a pull request. I’m sure he’ll update the module in no time.
Edit: The author has merged the pull request so you can do a
git pullin the MMM-Astrology directory -
@mykle1 Thats the funny part. I did run the config:check and it found no errors. Thanks for checking into this. I’ll take a stab at it tomorrow.
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@dgregory19 said in MMM-Astrology MagicMirror Crash:
Thats the funny part. I did run the config:check and it found no errors
That’s because the error wasn’t in the config.js file, as mentioned above. So now you don’t have to make the edit yourself. Simply run
git pullin the MMM-Astrology directory then run your mirror
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