Black Aquarius

Swimming Hole, Lummi Island, WA. Photo by Scarlett Messenger
Swimming Hole, Lummi Island, WA. Photo by Scarlett Messenger

Black Aquarius
Matthew Sweet explores the dawning of the age of Black Aquarius – the weirdly great wave of occultism that swept through British popular culture in the 1960s-70s. From journals like the Aquarian Arrow to the diabolical novels of Dennis Wheatley, lurid accounts of satanic cults in the Sunday papers and the glut of illustrated books, part-magazines, documentary film and TV drama, it was a wildly exuberant seam of British pop culture.