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Feminism and Astrology
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Anti-patriarchal aspects of witchcraft, as others have eloquently stated here already. Also on some level it's a chicken/egg thing as some point, as girl power culture (I'm sure there's a term for that) embraces certain hobbies and interests. For every girl that seems to embrace dangerous woo-woo shit, there's thirty more that just wanna have fun.
I may have my biases as a former Wiccan, though.
There's a lot of good history on this in the book, Caliban and the Witch. Witchcraft, mysticism, and astrology were interests, tools, and spaces for women to oppose the church-patriarchy.
Ahh, there's another book for my growing tbr list. 😅
There's an audiobook recorded of it on youtube and torrents. Its a great Marxist history of the transition from feudalism to capitalism in western europe.