Heresy IX Astrology

Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic - Peter J. Carroll 2000


Heresy IX Astrology

Some star signs may seem more inclined to believe in astrology than others. In particular, those either born or nurtured with their Intellect in Faeces, make the best candidates.

We once met an astrologer in a cast, who had a perfectly rational reason for his broken leg.

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Commentary 28

The pseudoscience of astrology has no place in magick.

Astrology has already died twice: once with the classical gods, and a second time after the Enlightenment. The complete failure of contemporary psychology to create anything other than a vocabulary of intellectual rubbish has encouraged astrology to resurface.

You can make money out of it easily.

You can get people into bed with it sometimes.

But otherwise, forget it.

Apparently all Capricorns with Uranus in direct opposition to their Sun act like opinionated contrarians and say things like this.

Thus we apologize for this inevitable and entirely predictable outburst.