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| New Astrology V1 N3 Sep 1940 | |
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The New Astrology was a popular American astrology magazine of the interwar and wartime decades, mixing instructional material on the signs and the natal chart with topical crowd-pleasers such as Hitler's horoscope and the astrological reading of British policy. Its everyday vocabulary is the craft's — conjunctions, ephemerides, transits, the ascendant — pitched at a lay readership rather than at technical practitioners, and a thread of attitude-and-outcome optimism runs through its advice columns in the American self-help manner. What gives the magazine its name, though, is a programme. One article defines the zodiac as a set of angles, derived from the relationship of the Earth to the Sun and the plane of the Earth's orbit, and insists in capital letters that it depends on the position of the Earth and nothing else. That is an attempt to give astrology a stated physical basis and to strip out the mythological apparatus, and the emphasis suggests the writer expected an argument from his own readers. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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