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From Pat Deveney's database:
Old Moore's Monthly Messenger. The title changed to Old Moore's Monthly Outlook and Forecast in
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| Old Moore's Monthly Messenger V1 1907 | |
| Old Moore's Monthly Outlook and Forecast | |
| Old Moore's Monthly Messenger V3 1909 | |
| Old Moore's Monthly Messenger V4-5 1910-11 | |
| Old Moore's Monthly Messenger V6-73 1912-23 | |
| British Journal of Astrology V8-9 1914-16 | |
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Old Moore's Monthly Messenger was a British popular-astrology monthly in the lineage of the Old Moore almanacs, and it belongs to the commercial fortune-telling trade rather than to the esoteric revival. Its staple is prediction sold by the calendar: day-by-day forecasts advising readers which days are fortunate for asking favours, seeking work or travelling and which are evil and best spent signing nothing, together with character sketches of the children born on each date, natal delineations, and transits of the slower planets read over public events. Around the astrology sits the rest of the almanac's stock — talismans and luck, a divining tablet worked by pinpricks with separate answers for good and bad fortune, weather prediction from the shapes of clouds, and the folklore of the fortune-telling trade. Its constant talk of success is astrological prognostication rather than self-culture. It is a valuable record of what popular astrology actually sold to ordinary British readers in the first decades of the twentieth century. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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