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Astrology is one of the main subjects of esoteric thought. The New Age Movement has undertaken a continuation and dissemination of esoteric thought. Thus, it enabled the emergence of classical astrology to a wider audience. Astrology allows the accomplishment of one of the major goals of the New Age Movement in the sense that it combines spirituality and rationality to form a new science. Psychological astrology is used as an instrument of self-knowledge and improvement of the self.
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Astrology has a central place in New Age’s beliefs and practice system. The very origin of the term New Age can be understood as a variation of the term “Age of Aquarius,” mainly used in the 1960s and 1970s. Hanegraaff (2005) defines this period as that of a “New Age Movement in a strict sense.” Many of the features present at that time resembled cult movements and had as one of their central beliefs the idea that our planet would be entering a new astrological age, the Age of...
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Guerriero, S. (2019). Astrology. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Religions of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27078-4_6
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