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Periodical: Current Astrology

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Current Astrology.
1942 Quarterly
Springfield, MA, then New York, NY.
Language: English.
Publisher: Harle Publications, Inc.; Current Astrology, Inc.
Editor: Walter H. Holze, editor-in-chief, then Charles F. Meyer and Iris Vorel, 1949-1951 Helen Haas, editor; Irys Vorel, astrology editor.
1/1, 1942. $1.00 a year, 130 pp.

This was a typical astrology journal of the time, with extensive "Daily Advice" for each sign, personal responses to inquirers, horoscopes for movie stars, and the like, but also included articles on tarot (by Elbert Benjamine, "President of the Church of Light"), graphology, "Herbs for Beauty," and extensive advertising pages touting AMORC, "The Keys of Power," personal astrologers, "Black Herman" incense, "Lucky Girl and Boy Brand Lodestone Perfume," bogus degrees from doubtful schools, and other typical offerings.

Other Sources:Harry Ransom Library, University of Texas; University of Illinois at Urbana.
Issues:Current Astrology V5 N1 Winter 1946
Current Astrology V6 N1 Winter 1947
Current Astrology V7 N4 Aug-sep 1948
Claude-Generated Themes:   Current Astrology was a mid-1940s American popular-astrology monthly, built on the standard apparatus of natal charts, planetary aspects, and the zodiac and delivered as accessible sun-sign forecasts and dated daily guidance. Its counsel is thoroughly practical and optimistic, threading the horoscopes with a self-help idiom of success, efficiency, concentration, and prosperity that places it close to New Thought as well as astrology proper. A lighter esoteric coloring — initiation, brotherhood, karma, an occasional Rosicrucian reference — and some vitalist health notes round out the mix. It belongs firmly in the popular-astrology tradition of the newsstand era, with self-improvement as its most prominent secondary register.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Astrology | Divination (Tarot, Cartomancy, and Numerology) | Rosicrucianism