Astrology and divination are ways people try to understand what might happen in the future. They've been around for a long time and are practiced in different religions. Let's see how they're used in ...

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I have touched briefly before on how the practice of palmistry was still connected to astrology during the early Western European Renaissance (see “East Meets West”). We have also explored how each ...

More than 30 per cent of Americans believe in some sort of esoteric knowledge and regularly consult astrology, tarot readers or fortune tellers, according to a recent report by the Pew Research Centre ...

Source: Heinrich Stürzl / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons We can define divination as using a systematic approach in order to try to gain insight into a situation or problem (Peek, 1991). In the ...

The story of the visitors who followed a star to witness the birth of Jesus is one of the most famous scenes in the Christian tradition. Yet the biblical text does not actually describe them as kings ...

Following on from the futurist folk and pagan techno of 2020’s debut album Fountain, Berlin-based composer Lyra Pramuk has created Hymnal, a devotional symphony to the universe that moves from ...

That was the first question the artist Mak Ying-tung 2 asked me when we were introduced in the spring of 2020. After excitedly confirming our initial compatibility – my star sign corresponds with her ...

Last year, less than a month into shelter in place, I decided to read the prophecies of Nostradamus. Within hours, I had found a passage that looked an awful lot like a COVID-19 prediction. In the ...