Astrology’s relative place in today’s popular intellectual culture quantified…
well, very roughly!
– 21 August 2011
I decided to conduct a little experiment to determine a crude measure of the relative permeation of astrology into today’s popular culture as compared with a variety of related and contrasting intellectual themes, as measured by google’s count of search engine results. A couple of hours of quick-fire brainstorming and key-pressing later, here are the preliminary results. Any analysis or other comments welcome!
star: 4,660,000,000
history: 3,510,000,000
Sun: 2,760,000,000
science: 2,000,000,000
medical: 1,750,000,000
modern: 1,640,000,000
statistics: 1,570,000,000
Christian: 1,320,000,000
magic: 1,210,000,000
traditional: 968,000,000
planet: 954,000,000
medicine: 858,000,000
religion: 846,000,000
scientific: 680,000,000
symbol: 555,000,000
faith: 539,000,000
stars: 494,000,000
Islam: 484,000,000
evidence: 482,000,000
ancient: 422,000,000
historic: 352,000,000
histoire: 343,000,000
tropical: 343,000,000
philosophy: 335,000,000
fortune: 297,000,000
tradition: 296,000,000
Muslim: 276,000,000
intellectual: 262,000,000
experimental: 261,000,000
psychology: 258,000,000
fate: 249,000,000
mathematics: 248,000,000
Islamic: 239,000,000
Jewish: 205,000,000
lunar: 200,000,000
interpretation: 192,000,000
witch: 190,000,000
mathematical: 190,000,000
moon: 186,000,000
statistical: 183,000,000
Renaissance: 182,000,000
magical: 178,000,000
medieval: 174,000,000
belief: 170,000,000
interpret: 162,000,000
psychological: 140,000,000
scientist: 137,000,000
zodiac: 131,000,000
myth: 126,000,000
hindu: 125,000,000
Christianity: 119,000,000
astronomy: 115,000,000
astrology: 109,000,000
predict: 109,000,000
horoscope: 103,000,000
prediction: 96,200,000
rational: 83,900,000
myths: 82,500,000
tarot: 81,800,000
mage: 79,900,000
pagan: 74,700,000
lune: 71,900,000
unfortunate: 71,100,000
mythology: 68,300,000
fortunate: 68,000,000
horoscopes: 66,400,000
planets: 64,300,000
psychic: 64,000,000
predictive: 63,400,000
Buddhist: 63,000,000
celestial: 58,800,000
symbolic: 55,300,000
magician: 55,200,000
philosophical: 54,100,000
magie: 53,100,000
psychologist: 53,100,000
empirical: 51,700,000
historian: 50,900,000
masonic: 48,900,000
soleil: 46,100,000
believer: 45,300,000
Buddhism: 44,900,000
starry: 44,000,000
witches: 42,000,000
philosopher: 41,400,000
interpretations: 40,300,000
Enlightenment: 38,900,000
atheist: 38,900,000
omen: 36,400,000
Judaism: 36,000,000
planète: 34,300,000
astronomie: 32,700,000
hinduism: 32,700,000
Magi: 31,300,000
occult: 30,100,000
atheism: 28,500,000
medicale: 27,700,000
mentalist: 26,600,000
causal: 26,400,000
astronomia: 25,900,000
witchcraft: 24,500,000
historien: 23,800,000
Sufi: 22,900,000
astrologie: 22,400,000
free will: 21,600,000
numerology: 20,800,000
portent: 20,400,000
astrologia: 18,900,000
modernity: 18,100,000
modernism: 17,600,000
pronostic: 16,500,000
faiths: 15,700,000
medecine: 14,900,000
wicca: 14,500,000
modernist: 14,500,000
astrological: 14,000,000
magick: 13,100,000
astrologer: 12,500,000
divination: 12,500,000
freemasonry: 12,100,000
fated: 12,100,000
astronomer: 11,400,000
platonic: 11,300,000
planétaire: 10,400,000
astre: 11,000,000
wiccan: 9,860,000
philosophe: 9,140,000
necromancer: 8,990,000
deterministic: 8,780,000
prognostic: 8,470,000
christianisme: 8,120,000
pluralism: 7,540,000
causality: 7,440,000
delineate: 6,490,000
taoist: 6,380,000
hermetic: 6,320,000
theism: 6,300,000
freemason: 6,250,000
paganism: 6,220,000
mediaeval: 6,170,000
sychronicity: 6,020,000
Judaic: 5,840,000
astrologers: 5,820,000
postmodernism: 5,800,000
occulte: 5,790,000
delineation: 5,740,000
taoism: 5,650,000
Theosopher: 5,380,000
clairvoyance: 4,980,000
logarithm: 4,840,000
spiritualism: 4,520,000
spiritualist: 4,490,000
relativism: 4,470,000
hellenistic: 4,370,000
determinism: 4,220,000
zodiacal: 4,130,000
Stoicism: 3,910,000
occultism: 3,730,000
pluralisme: 3,720,000
causally: 3,670,000
portend: 3,420,000
rationalism: 3,260,000
Pythagorean: 3,150,000
zoroastrian: 2,980,000
astrologue: 2,930,000
astres: 2,990,000
sidereal: 2,810,000
empiricism: 2,590,000
Theosophy: 2,560,000
necromancy: 2,520,000
modernisme: 2,430,000
lunaire: 2,410,000
Stoics: 2,150,000
mentalism: 2,390,000
jyotish: 2,340,000
theist: 2,080,000
Deist: 1,930,000
intellectualism: 1,880,000
astrologica: 1,870,000
Deism: 1,850,000
clairvoyant: 1,820,000
fatalism: 1,810,000
postmodernist: 1,780,000
psychical: 1,750,000
causalité: 1,750,000
Sophist: 1,630,000
empiricist: 1,560,000
Pantheism: 1,550,000
occultes: 1,530,000
theosophical: 1,480,000
polytheism: 1,480,000
zoroastrianism: 1,470,000
mediumship: 1,460,000
hellenism: 1,420,000
hermetica: 1,370,000
fatalistic: 1,360,000
astrologice: 1,340,000
diviner: 1,330,000
astrologiae: 1,290,000
scrying: 1,240,000
paganisme: 1,220,000
Judaisme: 1,150,000
occultisme: 1,130,000
fatalist: 1,120,000
numerologist: 1,100,000
lunaires: 1,090,000
occultist: 1,020,000
experimentalism: 997,000
Platonism: 988,000
Sufism: 862,000
Monism: 820,000
planètes: 796,000
pantheist: 771,000
relativist: 765,000
divinatory: 769,000
Hermeticism: 725,000
astrologues: 619,000
astrologian: 568,000
jyotisha: 553,000
deterministe: 520,000
astrologist: 514,000
theosophist: 494,000
Platonist: 493,000
presocratic: 478,000
medievalist: 470,000
determinist: 462,000
cartomancy: 434,000
medievalism: 431,000
Hermétisme: 426,000
theosophie: 423,000
determinisme: 414,000
polytheist: 361,000
sophism: 339,000
Hermeticum: 314,000
horoscopic: 268,000
monisme: 257,000
mediaevalist: 199,000
theosophic: 198,000
presocratics: 167,000
hermetism: 162,000
hellenist: 143,000
Pythagoreanism: 121,000
theosophique: 113,000
celestially: 108,000
numerologer: 103,000
mediaevalism: 81,300
magickian: 60,800
astrologiam: 42,100
astrologicum: 37,300
astrologorum: 25,300
theosophe: 17,800
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