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Periodical: Astrology Guide (Lee)

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Astrology Guide. 1938-1987? Monthly, bimonthly, quarterly New York, NY. Language: English.
Publisher: Astro Distributing Corporation; Star Guidance, Inc.; Sterling’s Magazines. Succeeds: Personal Astrology 1/1, 1938. 100 pp. The prolific "Dal Lee" (Adalbert Nebel, 1895-1973) founded the journal in 1938. He also edited Astrology Yearbook under the pseudonym "Win Johnson" and Your Personal Astrology magazine. He is perhaps more notable today because his daughter married Jim Henson of Muppets fame.

Other Sources:Michigan State University; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Issues:Astrology Guide V9 N2 Mar-Apr 1946
Astrology Guide V10 N1 Jan-Feb 1947
Claude-Generated Themes:   Astrology Guide was a mid-1940s American newsstand astrology magazine, built around Alma Branin's World Forecast and packed with daily and monthly sun-sign guidance, mundane world predictions, and 'Health and the Stars' features. Planetary, zodiacal, and horoscope vocabulary saturate the text, making astrology unambiguously its subject. Overlaid on the forecasts is a strong current of New Thought success-and-prosperity self-help promising 'the mastery of life.' The magazine also carries the familiar Rosicrucian (AMORC) advertisements invoking the 'wisdom of the pyramids,' which inflate its occult signal without making it an esoteric journal. It is a good example of how popular postwar astrology magazines blended star-guidance, mind-cure optimism, and mail-order occult advertising.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Astrology