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another horoscope is possible

CAPRICORN (December 22-January 19)

An astrology that properly recognises its magical responsibilities is the only possible point of contact between human reason and the seething anarchy of outer space. There are twelve houses in the zodiac, and all of them are on fire.

**AQUARIUS (January…

—p.182 Salvage Magazine #2 12 Theses on Astrology (175) by Sam Kriss
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the universe is a flat grey expanse

SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21)

Modern cosmology has stumbled across a truth that the ancients have always known, but tried to repress: our world is essentially meaningless, and in constant decay. This is why healing magic requires a sacrifice: in an entropic universe, it’s not a resto…

—p.181 12 Theses on Astrology (175) by Sam Kriss
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dross

According to scientific chauvinism, astrology is the dross left over by the slow transformation of superstition into astrophysics

—p.180 12 Theses on Astrology (175) by Sam Kriss
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we must put the stars back in the sky

VIRGO (August 23-September 22)

We could repeat the exercise. Theodor Adorno, who called occultism the ‘metaphysic of dunces,’ who argued in The Stars Down To Earth that astrology forms an institutionalised, objectified ‘secondary superstition’ in which the irrationality of social domination …

—p.179 12 Theses on Astrology (175) by Sam Kriss
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astrological time is cyclical and repetitive

LEO (July 23-August 22)

Of course, dying is one of those things that never happen in horoscopes. The planets spin in their circles forever, and while they might help you out from time to time with dates and job interviews, they’re also entirely untroubled by your death. Astrological time is …

—p.178 12 Theses on Astrology (175) by Sam Kriss