Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor

Fearless, radical, and fresh, Postcolonial Astrology scrutinizes astrology as a political practice and asks: If astrology is a language, whose language is it? Astrologer Alice Sparkly Kat cuts into the idea that Western cosmology is universal, interrogating the seven traditional planets in Western astrology through etymology-coming from the Latin word etumos, meaning "truth." Too often magic and astrology are divorced from their potency and cultural contexts: co-opted by neoliberalism, used...