I recently gave a speech at my Toastmaster’s club about astrology and remarked that astrology was on the rise. A critical lawyer in our club asked me to back that up, as she did not think that could possibly be true. I responded with facts. Astrology is now being taught in several colleges and universities, check back twenty years ago and this was not the case, astrology was accepted as a class subject at only a small group of colleges and Kepler College was the only truly academic institution that focused on astrology where one could get a degree.
The number of astrology class opportunities can be seen by just going to the web and Google the number of sites dealing with astrology, which is now huge compared to twenty years ago. And the number of web sites that offer classes in all areas of astrology is always growing. Check collegiate adult education courses and most have some type of astrology class offering.
There are fantastic sites for research, sites for getting your own astrological chart done for free on line. There were only a few such sites by in the early 90′s.
The number of professional groups that specialize in certain historic aspects of astrology or particular techniques has grown substantially. Classical,Vedic, Renaissance, Huber, Evolutionary, Geocentric and Harmonic, to name a few.
The number of magazines that focus on astrology has grown. Also, according to Google and Amazon books on astrology have increased. Consider that there are now astrological Meet Up groups all over the web bringing more and more new people to the study of astrology.
The convention of astrologers UAC United Astrology Congress has grown from four hundred fifty in 1993 in San Diego to over 4000 this year in Chicago, a growth of 500%. So the number of professional interest is moving steadily up.
Needless to say I impressed my fellow Toastmaster and what did she do? Asked me to give her a reading!!