Astrology and Western society from the First World War to COVID-19 / William Burns, editor.
Burns, William.
2023
BF1679 .A88 2023
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Astrology and Western society from the First World War to COVID-19 / William Burns, editor.
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9783031404863 electronic book
3031404866 electronic book
3031404858
9783031404856
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40486-3
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
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English
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1 online resource
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10.1007/978-3-031-40486-3 doi
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BF1679 .A88 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
133.50904
Summary
This book gathers contributions on the topic of astrology in the West during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from 19142022. It is the first collection exclusively devoted to a period that has been mostly neglected by historians of astrology, who have mostly devoted themselves to the ancient, medieval and early modern periods. Uninterested in vindicating or debunking astrology, contributors consider its cultural impact, its relation to historical events, and the ways in which it has changed in the last century. The broad range of subjects on modern Europe and the US include the relation of astrology with indigenous thought, interwar Polish astrology, and the relation of American astrologers to COVID. A bibliography of studies of modern astrology on a global basis is also included. This collection is a thoughtful contribution to the history of astrology and the sociology of belief as well as carrying significant implications for twentieth and twenty-first century history broadly. William Burns is a historian who lives in the Washington DC area. His interests include the history of science and the history of early modern and modern astrology. He has edited Astrology through History (2018), a reference book on the history of astrology and published articles on seventeenth-century astrology.
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Intro
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Modern Western Astrology as Indigenous Thought and Practice
Introduction
Astrology and the Modern West
Indigeneity
Indigenous Astronomy
Defining Astrology
Conclusion
Bibliography
Astrology, Modernity, and the Disputed Nature of Self
Modernity and Disenchantment
Taylor's "Porous" and "Buffered" Selves
Bifurcations of Astrology
The Buffered Self and Astrology
Dreams of Future/Past
A Need for Purification
The Divisive Case of Horary Astrology

Jung, Rudhyar, Synchronicity
Synchronicity as Science (or Not)
Astrology as Divination
Bibliography
Phillipson - Texts Cited
The Power of a Name: Albert the Great, the Speculum astronomiae, and Legitimization of Astrology and Astrological Magic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Albert the Great, the Speculum astronomiae, and Astrology's Shifting Reputation
The Uses of Albert's Reputation
Astrology's Declining Reputation
Modern Uses of Albert's Reputation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources

Astrology for Everyone: World War I and Astrology in the United States
Unholy Rich, Unhealthy Poor: Astrology Before World War I
Mutable Signs: U.S. Societal Change in the 1910s
Star Wars: Astrology 1914-1919
Sonic Boom: Post-World War I Astrology
Bibliography
Astrology in Interwar Poland
Astrological Societies, Astrologers, and Journals
Rethinking of Astrology
Polish Astrology in the Context of European and American Astrology
Forecasts
Political Events
Horoscopes of Politicians
Astrological Discussions About a Future War
Studying Accidents in Astrology

The History of Astrology
Not Only Policy
Conclusions
Bibliography
Astral and Hermetic Symbolism in Béla Hamvas' Tabula Smaragdina
Astrology, the Arithmology of Fate, and Metaphysical Realization
Metaphysical Reduction as Tawil in the Tabula Smaragdina
Hermetic Phenomenology of Numbers and Kabbalistic Cosmogenesis
The Imaginal Transcendence
Bibliography
Images of Blood, Stories of the Stars: Astrology in Its Shifting Cultural Context
Astrology in the Age of Shakespeare
Astrology During the Flowering of Civic Culture: The 1960s

The Great Reaction: Astrology in an Age of Democratic Decline
Conclusions
Bibliography
Olga Tokarczuk, the Astrology Industry, and Women's Anxiety
Bibliography
Books and Articles
Web Sources
American Astrologers in the First Year of COVID-19
Astrology and Modern American Politics
Astrologers Confront the Plague
Rob Brezsny: New Age Optimism Meets a Pandemic
Chris Brennan: Mundane Astrology and the Pandemic
The Astrotwins: Pop Culture Astrology and COVID-19
Bibliography
Books and Articles
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