(1) All of these practices depend on cultivating virtues that are contradictory to industrialization/capitalization: just as lyric poetry is.
(2) It is intriguing to consider commercial music as an industrial utilization of lyric poetry, but the point is that the individual activity of lyric poetry is not amenable to industrialization IN ITSELF, but it still exists. But perhaps this example doesn't work -- the really important argument is above, namely, that the cultivation of these practices -- astrology, dousing, etc, is individuated, and oriented around virtues directly opposed to their mass utilization.
(3) As other commentators have noticed, we also don't know that these sciences aren't used on a mass technological/industrial fashion --- it seems likely, for instance, that there are corporate entities that use i ching divination, and likely, too, that there are financial firms that utilize astrological methods -- but wouldn't reveal this because of the likely opprobrium from a still dominant (if clearly declining) orthodox materialism...
(2) It is intriguing to consider commercial music as an industrial utilization of lyric poetry, but the point is that the individual activity of lyric poetry is not amenable to industrialization IN ITSELF, but it still exists. But perhaps this example doesn't work -- the really important argument is above, namely, that the cultivation of these practices -- astrology, dousing, etc, is individuated, and oriented around virtues directly opposed to their mass utilization.
(3) As other commentators have noticed, we also don't know that these sciences aren't used on a mass technological/industrial fashion --- it seems likely, for instance, that there are corporate entities that use i ching divination, and likely, too, that there are financial firms that utilize astrological methods -- but wouldn't reveal this because of the likely opprobrium from a still dominant (if clearly declining) orthodox materialism...