Astrology and Western Society from the First World War to Covid-19

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Modern Western Astrology as Indigenous Thought and Practice
	Introduction
	Astrology and the Modern West
	Indigeneity
	Indigenous Astronomy
	Defining Astrology
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Astrology, Modernity, and the Disputed Nature of Self
	Modernity and Disenchantment
	Taylor’s “Porous” and “Buffered” Selves
	Bifurcations of Astrology
	The Buffered Self and Astrology
	Dreams of Future/Past
	A Need for Purification
	The Divisive Case of Horary Astrology
	Jung, Rudhyar, Synchronicity
	Synchronicity as Science (or Not)
	Astrology as Divination
	Bibliography
		Phillipson – Texts Cited
The Power of a Name: Albert the Great, the Speculum astronomiae, and Legitimization of Astrology and Astrological Magic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
	Albert the Great, the Speculum astronomiae, and Astrology’s Shifting Reputation
	The Uses of Albert’s Reputation
	Astrology’s Declining Reputation
	Modern Uses of Albert’s Reputation
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
		Primary Sources
		Secondary Sources
Astrology for Everyone: World War I and Astrology in the United States
	Unholy Rich, Unhealthy Poor: Astrology Before World War I
	Mutable Signs: U.S. Societal Change in the 1910s
	Star Wars: Astrology 1914–1919
	Sonic Boom: Post-World War I Astrology
	Bibliography
Astrology in Interwar Poland
	Astrological Societies, Astrologers, and Journals
	Rethinking of Astrology
	Polish Astrology in the Context of European and American Astrology
	Forecasts
	Political Events
	Horoscopes of Politicians
	Astrological Discussions About a Future War
	Studying Accidents in Astrology
	The History of Astrology
	Not Only Policy
	Conclusions
	Bibliography
Astral and Hermetic Symbolism in Béla Hamvas’ Tabula Smaragdina
	Astrology, the Arithmology of Fate, and Metaphysical Realization
	Metaphysical Reduction as Tawil in the Tabula Smaragdina
	Hermetic Phenomenology of Numbers and Kabbalistic Cosmogenesis
	The Imaginal Transcendence
	Bibliography
Images of Blood, Stories of the Stars: Astrology in Its Shifting Cultural Context
	Astrology in the Age of Shakespeare
	Astrology During the Flowering of Civic Culture: The 1960s
	The Great Reaction: Astrology in an Age of Democratic Decline
	Conclusions
	Bibliography
Olga Tokarczuk, the Astrology Industry, and Women’s Anxiety
	Bibliography
		Books and Articles
		Web Sources
American Astrologers in the First Year of COVID-19
	Astrology and Modern American Politics
	Astrologers Confront the Plague
	Rob Brezsny: New Age Optimism Meets a Pandemic
	Chris Brennan: Mundane Astrology and the Pandemic
	The Astrotwins: Pop Culture Astrology and COVID-19
	Bibliography
		Books and Articles
		Web Pages
Bibliography of Scholarship on Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Astrology
	Books, Book Chapters and Articles
	Dissertations and Theses Available on the Internet
Index