Ah, the stars are right again in Lovecraftian Country.
I have always seen Lovecraftian myth as the reaction of the powerless individual to the inscrutable and impersonal social powers of modernity to which he is at the mercy.
In particular, such devouring monstrosities as fascism and communism.
The funny thing about astrology is of course the stars are quite down to earth as Adorno did put it in his essays on the irrational in culture:
"the constant appeal of the column to find fault with oneself rather than with given conditions" is evidence of "the implicit but ubiquitous rule that one has to adjust oneself continuously to commands of the stars at a given time."
"The idea that the stars, if only one reads them correctly, offer some advice mitigates the very same fear of the inexorability of social processes the stargazer himself creates."
Nothing new here, the stars were always right.
And astrology is ridiculous self-adjustment to anonymous powers in an incomprehensible world, where nobody is in control and whose true face one does not want to recognize.
I have always seen Lovecraftian myth as the reaction of the powerless individual to the inscrutable and impersonal social powers of modernity to which he is at the mercy. In particular, such devouring monstrosities as fascism and communism.
The funny thing about astrology is of course the stars are quite down to earth as Adorno did put it in his essays on the irrational in culture:
https://www.telospress.com/adorno-on-astrology/
"the constant appeal of the column to find fault with oneself rather than with given conditions" is evidence of "the implicit but ubiquitous rule that one has to adjust oneself continuously to commands of the stars at a given time."
"The idea that the stars, if only one reads them correctly, offer some advice mitigates the very same fear of the inexorability of social processes the stargazer himself creates."
Nothing new here, the stars were always right. And astrology is ridiculous self-adjustment to anonymous powers in an incomprehensible world, where nobody is in control and whose true face one does not want to recognize.