“Witchcraft” is usually what people mean when they use paganism in a derogatory sense (as opposed to its more philosophical strains), and it is indeed endemic to all societies which trust the senses over the intellect, including our own.
Group affiliation isn’t really appropriate when it comes to “new age” beliefs - 30% of all Americans believe in astrology after all. Besides, idols like nationalism and identity politics are just as pagan as tarot and the zodiac.
Fine, the wide usage of taking astrology and zodiac signs seriously might extend it, but can we really say that it’s on the rise since the 1990s? I don’t see much care for occultism nor neoshamanism among either the youth nor culture at large outside of anti-patriarchal witches whom are small now. It doesn’t seem to, and this is the important part, be taken as seriously nor as becoming more socially acceptable than the monopoly American Christianity has.
That astrology percentage actually is on the rise, yes. Even if it hasn't hit your circles yet, this sort of thing is increasingly popular.
Really? Astrology is so 1680s.
