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Nothing untoward has happened to any of them-yet. But Associate Editor Douglas Auchincloss (Gemini), who wrote the cover story, is looking to the future with no little nervousness. Interested in the occult ever since a family maid told his fortune from tea leaves when he was a young boy, Auchincloss had a pair of horoscopes cast; he consulted a palm reader and interviewed a clairvoyant...
...young, too, are exploiting the boom, although less cynically. A California rock group called The Fool has recorded several zodiacal songs?not because they believe only in astrology, but because they feel generally tuned in to the entire occult world (the Fool is the card in the fortunetelling Tarot deck that stands for Man). "This is a very brilliant generation," says Kiyo, a young half-Japanese astrologer who works mostly among pop groups and folk singers. "They're interested in astrology because they've found the material things failing them, and they're trying to find their souls." In Manhattan...
...colleges" for dropouts that are being established across the country. California's Midpeninsula Free University, for instance, offers no fewer than five courses in the subject: Jungian Astrology, Advanced Astrology, Out of the Aquarium and into the Aquarian, Occult Things and the New Age, and an Occult and Astrology Workshop. When the University of South Carolina recently offered Witchcraft as a non-credit voluntary course, an astounding 247 people signed up?though Professor Sidney Birnbaum expects many of them to drop out when they discover that he is going to teach only history...
...news board will give you the word on covering Harvard, the City, and the nation. The editorial board welcomes future Tom Wickers, and the photo and business boards are only too glad to initiate you into their occult arts. A sportswriter or two may even be around to say a few words about the jock world...
...success is common among Italy's wizards, who offer their clients counsel, clairvoyance and, at higher fees, "the art of magnetic fluids," said by 18th century German Physician Friedrich Mesmer to circulate in the universe, available for good or evil. Nearly every village has its specialist in the occult, and the Magician of Mon-tefredane, a small town near Naples, was wizard enough to get himself elected mayor. Occasionally, the magnetism goes too far, as in the case of a Milanese operator currently on trial for palming $17,000 paid by a noble lady to charm her lover back...