All who have Instagram have seen them. The bingo cards with different characteristics to check off. Cartoon characters, photos, or short videos meant to illustrate the character traits. The latest time astrology has become a viral arrival. Accounts such as @trashbag_astrology, @jakesastrology and @realastrology collects hundreds of thousands of followers for their often harsh, always humorous posts. Searches on the topic on Twitter has increased by 300 percent, according to Netflix, who has already made a mini documentary, ”Inter: astrology”. Hip sites as The Cut, Bustle, Broadly and Girlboss publish all the reams of astrology materials.
– From a astroperspektiv can an explanation be that the Neptune remained in his hemmatecken pisces since 2012, and will was there for a while to come, ” says Anna Zingmark.
, but called themselves mystics. As such, she is active as an astrologer in the feminist and anti-racist journal Bang. She sees the explanation to the ongoing astrologivågen in the stars.
” Neptune deals with, inter alia, themes such as dreams, fantasy, magic, inspiration, but mainly spiritual receptivity. The world is becoming more open to this. More susceptible to the unbelievable, for pseudovetenskaper of various kinds. For it I’m not going to knit under the chair with: astrology is a pseudoscience.
Photo: Illustration: Helena Davidsson Neppelberg
I have contacted Anna for this article. But I had been able to book an appointment for a consultation with her yet. The last few months have also my interest in astrology has grown from slentrianläsning of tidningshoroskopen to an intense craving for in-depth knowledge.
in middle age, with in general very scant foothold to faith and spirituality, I have almost suddenly begun to take my advice based on data obtained from the sky. Many of my friends behave in the same way. Why?
– A very universal existential needs that we humans have is to find meaning. We would really like to know why we live, what happens after death, how the future will be, ” says Liselotte Frisk, professor of religious studies who researched on the nyandliga movements, where the astrology in recent decades been a part.
” Only to the church’s role in society diminished, doesn’t it, that the questions do not remain. They are just different expressions. Then I think that the cultural tendency to increased individualism as we see in Sweden also come into play. We are interested in therapy, to solve our problems of self-development. Astrology has been a part of such therapeutic aspects. You sit down and look at the planetary influence on a person’s life, and how to with it in mind would be able to handle the person’s problems in a better way.
interest nyandliga movements in the major grown so in the modern era is that they fit well in a capitalist system. Many of the new-age-market services is just as concrete as a frisörbesök. They help individuals with isolated problems. The people who suffer from stress, or recurring headaches can turn to a healer. Anyone who wants to come in contact with his dead grandmother can seek out a medium. Relax in a globalized communication tools on this need, and lucrative business opportunities reveals itself on a broad front.
Myself, I sit and click my way through a variety of digital booking system where astrologers offering their services. A consultation of ninety minutes, in which my birth chart reviewed in depth, costs a bit over a thousand dollars. It is considerably more than the free account I got in hajpade astroappen Co-Star. With the help of data from NASA has figured out in which the positions of the planets and the stars stood in exactly the moment I was born, over exactly the place I was born. Something in its ability to deliver such large quantities of very specific information makes me feel confident for the system. Despite the fact that I know that the daily the advice the app gives me is really only the products of an algorithm.
“I think that it the astrology says is the truth, so that interest is growing, I hope the fact that more think that I am,” says Rebecca Ingvall.
on Facebook for women and ickebinära astrologifans. We are two, of nearly 4,000. Rebecca checks out their horoscope at least twice a week. She says that reconciliation with the stars gives her peace and confirmation that she is on the right track:
” I think we are all looking for that security. Something to grab hold of, in this crazy life. It happens so much trouble in the world, and because everything is so available today, we see more clearly how very destructive we humans do to each other, against animals, against nature. Everything hangs together. We wound a seed in the soil grows up to be a flower, so it will be affected by the sun and the moon and the stars. I think that more and more are waking up now, and understand that we are a part of something bigger.
that showed that more than half of all Swedish women are concerned about climate change. Known for a long time is that we perceive our health as worse, and already in school starting to stress more than men. Many women feel lousy, so reasonably, we have more reason to seek help. According to religionsforskningen, we are also very really over-represented among those who are approaching different nyandliga practitioners.
“I think it is very much about what we grow up in for the structure, and the roles we are assigned,” says Anna Zingmark, which mostly gets approached by women and ickebinära for their horoskopläsningar.
” the Guys brought up to be logical, practical, solution oriented. While the girls and ickebinära to be receptive, open and empathetic towards their environment. It creates an understanding of a more transparent analysis. But regardless of gender, so is the interest for the seemingly inexplicable in many. Especially in those who are drawn to the expanding and in-depth topics in life. There is a greater curiosity to understand each other, and meet each other.
if the world and the universe than what we have ever done before. Knowledge and science are highly valued. But yet it seems not all of these facts that mankind accumulated over the millennia to be enough to make us stop to wonder: who am I? What do I want? Where am I going? The emptiness that occurs in silence when these issues do not get a response must be filled with something.
I, and all the many others in my generation right now drill down on our födelsekartor has thus not only been lured here at the same time that we’ve seen fun photos on Instagram. Also, we are all, in different ways, but seriously, worried about the future. Astrology allows us to play with the idea that there is a method behind the madness. Everyday doubt become a little easier to bear if we can at least pretend to believe that the stars have a plan.
