
At The New Yorker, they have discovered that astrology is back. In never leaves, actually — ask the people at Llewellyn —but new media interest is cyclical as the Moon. Maybe it is just astrology’s “growth” on social media that gets noticed.
That is a little stomach-turning, in that Liz Greene is one of the best astrologers out there. When I decided that I was less into astrology than in previous years, I got rid of most of my books — except for Liz Greene’s and Robert Hand’s.
Maybe Guler needs a tattoo of Media, not Medea.
A couple thoughts:
1.) Occulture has been transformed in the age of the internet. As a practitioner who learned occultural skills, techniques, and outlooks in the before the internet times, I find most occultural apps unmagical and unsatisfying. Even if convenient.
2.) The Trads and occultural currents that carry me along endorse competency, all in all. Gaining it, then using it. What’s more, they more or less oppose occult activities in service to corporate and/or establishment world views. The practitioner as tech executive is a notion and model they would discourage. I certainly prefer personal and more or less private and countercultural occult activities.
Still, change happens, and all of us must adapt to lots of changes..