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'''Astrology''' is the practice of reading terrestrial affairs from celestial configurations. Historically inseparable from astronomy (Kepler cast horoscopes; court astrologers advised princes), it was marginalized by the scientific revolution but persists as a mass cultural phenomenon.
'''Astrology''' appears in Infrared discourse at the intersection of the movement's cosmic turn and its critique of liberal spirituality.


== Marxist assessment ==
== The frame ==
* Marx and Engels treated religion and occultism as forms of alienated consciousness real human powers projected onto imaginary subjects.
* The [[Ma Lie|dark Marxism]] current explicitly claims the cosmos: "alignment with cosmos" as moral foundation ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/007a6ff2-3861-4c00-af25-e5aff3e9d04c/ INFRAWOKE stream]) but as '''objective order''' (Allah, Cosmos, Xi Jinping), not as personal horoscope.
* Engels' analysis of early Christianity as a social movement wrapped in religious fantasy applies: astrology's popularity indexes real anxieties (precarity, powerlessness) seeking orientation where materialist politics has failed to provide it.
* Haz's alien/meme speculations ("what if aliens are literally memes... the idea of Tung Tung Sahur colonizing our brains from afar?") play in the same register — metaphysical speculation deliberately beyond the visible spectrum ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/00e75c5d-493b-453c-9b4b-bca9603c6ed7/ COMMUNISM WINNING | WE'RE SO BACK]).
* The post-1960s astrological revival tracks neoliberal atomization: individualized fate replaces collective struggle.
* Against New Age individualism: the critique is that astrology culture among the online left substitutes personal fate-management for collective struggle — idealism as coping ([[Bread and Circuses]]).
* Infrared discourse criticizes astrology culture among the online left as symptomatic of idealism — change your birth chart, not the world.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Cosmism]]
* [[Cosmism]]
* [[Religion]]
* [[Ma Lie]]


== References ==
== References ==
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Revision as of 09:49, 21 August 2026

Astrology appears in Infrared discourse at the intersection of the movement's cosmic turn and its critique of liberal spirituality.

The frame

  • The dark Marxism current explicitly claims the cosmos: "alignment with cosmos" as moral foundation (INFRAWOKE stream) — but as objective order (Allah, Cosmos, Xi Jinping), not as personal horoscope.
  • Haz's alien/meme speculations ("what if aliens are literally memes... the idea of Tung Tung Sahur colonizing our brains from afar?") play in the same register — metaphysical speculation deliberately beyond the visible spectrum (COMMUNISM WINNING | WE'RE SO BACK).
  • Against New Age individualism: the critique is that astrology culture among the online left substitutes personal fate-management for collective struggle — idealism as coping (Bread and Circuses).

See also

References