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Most human civilizations – India, Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Rome, and Persia, among others – based their culture [1] on complex systems of astrology, now considered a pseudoscience, which provided a link between the cosmos with the conditions and events on earth.
Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, [1] [2] that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects.
The Fated Sky: Astrology in History. Simon & Schuster. 369 pp. Caiozzo, Anna (2003). Images of the Sky. Paris-Sorbonne. Signs and Constellations. Archived 2021-04-17 at the Wayback Machine; Eric Francis (2016). "Why Your Zodiac Sign is Not Wrong" Hone, Margaret (1978). The Modern Text-Book of Astrology. Revised edition.
Western astrology is the system of astrology most popular in Western countries. It is historically based on Ptolemy 's Tetrabiblos (2nd century CE), which in turn was a continuation of Hellenistic and ultimately Babylonian traditions.
Detail of the Ishtar Gate in Babylon. Babylonian astrology is the earliest recorded organized system of astrology, arising in the 2nd millennium BC. [12] There is speculation that astrology of some form appeared in the Sumerian period in the 3rd millennium BC, but the isolated references to ancient celestial omens dated to this period are not considered sufficient evidence to demonstrate an ...
A diagram in Johannes Kamateros' 12th-century Compendium of Astrology shows the Sun represented by the circle with a ray, Jupiter by the letter zeta (the initial of Zeus, Jupiter's counterpart in Greek mythology), Mars by a shield crossed by a spear, and the remaining classical planets by symbols resembling the modern ones, without the cross ...
Natal astrology, also known as genethliac astrology or genethlialogy, is a system of astrology that claims to shed light on an individual’s personality or path in life [1] based on constructing a horoscope or natal chart that includes the exact date, time, and location of an individual's birth.
Astrologers have been interested in relating world history to the astrological ages since the late 19th century; [4] however, most astrologers study horoscopes, not astrological ages. The pop-culture concept of the Age of Aquarius referring to major societal changes of the 1960s , popularized in the 1967 musical (and subsequent 1979 film ) Hair .