The Astrologers' Magazine [Alan Leo] [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*The Astrologers' Magazine [Alan Leo]*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: Astrologers' Magazine. A Work Dealing Solely with All Branches of Astral Science. Other titles: Astrologers' Magazine (December 1891 on), Modern Astrology 1890—1895 Monthly London, England. Language: English. Publisher: The Proprietors (Allen Leo, Geo. Vickers). Editor: Alan Leo (William Frederick Allen) and "Aphorel" (Frederick Lacey). Succeeded by: Modern Astrology (which retains its serialization) 1/1, August 1890-July 1895. 10 s. 6d. a year. This was Leo's first attempt to make known "Astral Science" as a science rather than a device of charlatanry. Each issue in the early years presented "Lessons in Astrology," basic instruction on the art, and as the journal progressed Leo (and occasionally others) added discussions of the symbolism of the stars, Hindu astrology, astrological palmistry, the growth of interest in astrology, and the like. Notes and Queries says that "Mercurius was the editor of 'The Astrologers' Magazine,' commenced August 1890; five volumes were published, 1890-1895, when it was incorporated with 'Modern Astrology.'" Mercurius (Edward Vaughn Williams) had earlier published Astrologers' Magazine and Philosophical Miscellany (1857-1858) and Mercurius's Predicting Almanac (1876-1880) and the correspondent to N&Q may have confused the journals, or possibly Mercurius had a hand in this later Astrologers' Magazine -- which does not list its editorial staff -- although his age (b. 1817) makes this unlikely.
Other Sources:	BL; Yale University; Grinnell College; University of Minnesota, and others.
Issues:	Astrologers Magazine V1 1890-91
	Astrologers Magazine V2 1891-92
	Astrologers Magazine V3 1892-93
	Astrologers Magazine V4 1893-94
	Astrologers Magazine V5 1894-95
	Modern Astrology Index V8 Jul-dec 1900
	Modern Astrology V8 N1 Jul 1900
	Modern Astrology V8 N2 Aug 1900
	Modern Astrology V8 N3 Sep 1900
	Modern Astrology V8 N4 Oct 1900
	Modern Astrology V8 N5 Nov 1900
	Modern Astrology V8 N6 Dec 1900
	Modern Astrology V11 N2 Feb 1902
	Modern Astrology NS V14 N1 Jan 1917
	Modern Astrology NS V14 N2 Feb 1917
	Modern Astrology NS V22 N1 Jan 1925
	Modern Astrology NS V22 N2 Feb 1925
	Modern Astrology NS V22 N8 Aug 1925
	Modern Astrology NS V25 N3 Mar 1928
	Modern Astrology NS V25 N4 Apr 1928
	Modern Astrology V25 1928 (All but November 1925)
	Modern Astrology NS V30 N1 Jan-feb 1933
	Modern Astrology NS V30 N2 Mar-apr 1933
	Modern Astrology NS V30 N3 May-jun 1933
	Modern Astrology NS V31 N3 May-jun 1934
	Modern Astrology NS V34 N2 Mar-apr 1937
Claude-Generated Themes:	The Astrologer's Magazine was Alan Leo's London monthly of the 1890s and the seedbed of what became Modern Astrology, the vehicle through which he rebuilt a declining Victorian craft into a respectable and commercially successful discipline. Its columns are saturated with technique — natal horoscopes and character delineations, worked ascendants and aspects, mundane and eclipse prediction applied to earthquakes, governments and financial panics, and the prize-horoscope competitions with which Leo grew his readership. Occasional scholarship traces the craft back to the Babylonian priests who recorded planetary phenomena and the events that followed. What distinguishes the magazine from an almanac is Leo's Theosophy. He was a member of the Theosophical Society, and he read the birth chart through karma and reincarnation as a record of what a soul had earned rather than a decree imposed on it — the approach he named esoteric astrology, and which shaped the twentieth-century revival more than any other single influence. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:	Astrology \| Palmistry and Chiromancy