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A few factors imo, it's resurging for largely the same reasons leftism in general is popular.
People have a desperate, deep seated need to stand out from the crowd, to be exceptional or above average in some way. For those who don't have any obvious areas of talent or excellence, they have to get inventive. This is why people turn to ideology or controversial ideas. It is very, very alluring to claim that this thing which the majority of people (rightly!) dismiss is actually true and has value, and everyone else are idiots for not seeing it. It's an extremely easy way to set oneself apart and claim to have secret knowledge. This is as true for your traditional anti-vax moms as it is for astrology adherents as it is for reflexive leftists who argue that mass immigration is great, actually, as it is for Jehovah's who think they're part of the chosen few going to be saved. Everyone wants to be part of an exclusive crowd that are just better than the plebs. Believing and defending unpopular things is a low-to-no-cost way of achieving that. Your little clubhouse gets to shore up their egos by circlejerking and looking down on those "sheeple" who don't follow your chosen ideology.
Isn't astrology fundamentally opposed to leftism because it denies the Blank Slate and asserts that the most important aspects of one's character are determined (dare I say "assigned") at birth?
Concepts are only sacred so far as they are useful; if it is more convenient to believe something else over blank slatism, then something else will be believed, at least for as long as it remains convenient to do so.
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That would be approaching from a rational, or at least reasoned, perspective, whereas those who seem to embrace astrology also seem very much emotional and intuitive. The rational trappings about celestial positioning and whatnot are just embroidery, in my view. Like a Grimoire page 257 suggesting you need exactly three drops of virgin blood to cast the spell, or whatever. The exactitude is the sleight of hand to get you to buy into it as real, though fundamentally it's hookum. When confronted with your point here it isn't hard to imagine a bit of handwaving and scoffing that "that's not how it works," followed by a topic change.
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Leftists aren't opposed to selectively applying their precious Blank Slate. Their favored groups are very much blank slates. Their disfavored, not so much.
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