This undergraduate thesis aims to explain the rising popularity of new, postmodern spirituality, and by considering specifically magic, fortune-telling, and horoscope it emphasizes the New Age complex to which they belong. Contrary to the general assumption, globalization processes did not secularize societies and force religion out in its entirety, but in destroying tradition and known sources of security through drastic social changes, they forever change the contemporary state of religiosity and contributed to the rise of spirituality in all its new forms. Hence, the search for security and a sense of control over one's fate instilled the occult phenomena into spirituality and the private sphere of individuals seeking religious experience. Given that the complex of New Age beliefs and practices provides compensation for the lost hope for a better tomorrow, individuals find it particularly enticing, which is why its popularity and social acceptance are due. Content about the occult is spread via popular (digital) media, making it necessarily part of the consumer culture that enables the sale of various New Age publications, courses for practicing the occult, and consulting services with professional mages, psychics and astrologers. The review of research on New Age representation in certain Western countries confirmed it to be the case of the search for motivation in times of disappointment, helplessness, and disorientation. However, its notable presence is hindered by the tradition of its great opponent the Catholic Church, especially in Croatia. But, as the character of the postmodern, consumer era is what ensures the survival of these new forms of spirituality, in moments of uncertainty they are the consolation that resides in societies as part of private religious life.