Not religious doesn't necessarily mean atheist

[Pat Mustard]

I mean...astrology isn't a religion.  It (and other pseudoscience crap) is certainly a delusion, but it's not a religion anymore than being anti-vax or anti-evolution is.  And atheists can certainly be astrology believers, the two aren't at all mutually exclusive.

I would say that if it is not religion then it is so close to religion that you could barely squeeze a Rizla between the two. To use astrology, from whence did it come? The Babylonian religion, specifically it was the way in which the priests of Babylon and its antecedent empires decided as to what messages their gods gave them, how they persuaded the common people to bow down and worship (and incidentally give the priests half their produce so that the priests could better read the stars). Witchcraft or wicca similarly can trace its roots as a bastardised version of the old Celtic pagan traditions and religions, retaining what few remnants were left of that religious tradition after the Romans, and later christians, were through with dismantling it.

If you look hard at all these new age spiritualisms you either see a harking back to the old folk religions, or a scam artist trying to create a new religion in order to profit, or most often both.