Astrology has been in existence ever since people were willing to believe that the stars were more than just bright, eternal lights in the sky. From its roots in Babylonia, astrology spread into Syria and Egypt, and eventually, in about 4 th century BCE, entered the world ofH Bellova...
Chapter II on astronomy manifests, besides nearly prehistoric views, an acquaintance with Greek and Indian science..” See the article in Encyclopedia Iranica for a more complete treatment of this. The recent Oxford edition is splendid, distinguishing itself not only in its linguistic brilliance but...
I’ve always found this particular lunation fascinating because Cancer Season is all about the good in life, the people we like to be around and break bread with, the summer picnics, the eating fresh fruit on the beach and staying out to watch the sunset, laying in a hammock cuddling wit...
Some astrologers do not use the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, which were discovered only in recent centuries and were unknown to ancient astrology. They only use the "classical seven planets", i.e. the Sun, the Moon, and Mercury through Saturn. For this reason we offer an opt...
The ancient religion of astrology, with its main contribution to civilization a heightened interest in the heavens, began in Babylonia. It reached its peak in the Greco-Roman world, especially as recorded in the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy. Natal astrology is based on the assumption that the positions...
Parts of Valens’Anthologywas translated into Pahlavi (Middle Persian) sometime around the 4th century. His name was widely known in the later Medieval tradition, in Arabic, Latin and Byzantine Greek works, although he was not so widely known after the Medieval period. ...
Hellenistic astrology is a type of astrology that was largely practiced in Greek and Roman empires, as well as all around the Mediterranean region, in the late Hellenistic period or sometime around the 1st century BCE. It is widely believed that the Hellenistic astrology has marked a new beginn...
Astrology originated in Babylon around 2,400 years ago. Ancient Babylonians were the first to apply astrological principles to predict events. 04 The word "zodiac" comes from the Greek word "zodiakos". It means "circle of animals," reflecting the animal symbols of manyzodiac signs. ...
So part of that is the different cultural context of Dorotheus of Sidon who’s a Greek author living in the 1st century CE, somewhere in the Roman Empire versus William Lilly who’s like an English guy living in the 17th century in London and how he’s conceptualizing Mars and how t...
This connection to the harvest continues into Greek mythology, where Virgo was connected with the goddess Demeter, who ruled over the bounty of the earth and agriculture as well. Virgo is also connected to Ceres through early Roman culture, where she was the ruler of the same agr...