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From Pat Deveney's database:
Revue Française d'Astrologie. This was the short-lived predecessor of Cahiers d'Astrologie, the pre-eminent French astrological journal of the post-war years. Volguine ( |
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| Revue Francaise d'Astrologie N1 Jan-Feb 1927 | |
| Revue Francaise d'Astrologie N2 Mar-Apr 1927 | |
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The Revue Française d'Astrologie is, as its name promises, an astrological journal, and the sampled text confirms it almost to the exclusion of anything else: charts, horoscopes, the zodiac, ascendants and natal readings saturate the vocabulary. Its register is that of the learned French astrological revival of the early twentieth century — a careful 'mise au point' on a contested technical question, a study correlating the higher professions with aptitudes read from the birth chart, a review of an English treatise on astrology's technic and ethics — rather than the popular almanac's fortune-telling. A faint esoteric thread of occult and initiatic language, and an occasional glance at the tarot, place it within the French occult-revival milieu, but only lightly. Keyword panels that read its frequent 'esprit,' 'succès' and 'affirmation' as spiritualism or New Thought are misfiring on ordinary French words; this is astrology, first and last. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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