How reliable are horoscopes?

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I am not fond of reading newspapers but I can't help picking them up and look for the horoscope section if not the crosswords. It's not like I believe them or anything, I'm just naturally curious to what it says. I have read some a few years ago. After reading my horoscope, my mind would just hover on the thought that it might be true and would happen anytime throughout the day. I'm still not sure if it's healthy, but there were those days when things did really happen just like what it's said on my horoscope. I got dumbfounded and have always doubted it; thinking it may be just a coincidence. OR, does it have to do with my mind being wrapped up by it? I remember a friend told me about this "power of the mind"--there's a great power of influence in everyone's mind that can control what happens around him/her. He even told me that he tried it a few times like this one time he said, right after waking up, he started thinking about the very first taxi he would see as soon as he gets out of his house would be white in color. He focused on that thought, chanting it silently while preparing his breakfast and getting ready to work. When he finally got out of his house, a red car went by. A few minutes later, he got on a public transport thinking that it didn't work, and as he glanced at the window, there he saw a white taxi. He realized that, of course, it's 'the first taxi'; not the first car. He tried it from time to time and he said he found out that it works when he would think of it a few hours prior to when he expects it to happen. I'm not sure if it's true but I can't really tell he's crazy. If it were true, real life would be a lot funner than the movies. I am not to judge about extraordinary things. I can believe in real psychics' ability to. I am just wondering how legit horoscopes and fortunetellings are. On second thought, maybe it's how it strongly influences our mind that reflects on our actions then towards our surroundings. I can't really tell.