Tell Me About Astrology (quotes on faith)

By Mon Chichi

  It is quite easy to dismiss Astrology as the new age hocus pocus. But, Astrology has been in existence from as far back as 1645 BC, where Astrological records retrieved show a strong practice of Astrology among the Babylonians.

The rise of Astrology began as the Early Man made a concerted attempt to study and understand the environment around him Things like times and season eventually gave man the understanding of the Earth’s power and led to the study of the solar system eventually Thus, Astrology was born.

Astrology was used from time to time by ancient doctors or medicine philosophers such as Hippocrates to better understand the personality of their patients; it was not rare for a doctor to have the Astrological profile of a patient charted for medicinal purposes.

The popularity of Astrology in these recent times can be seen in the proliferation of Astrological websites, books, seminars and newspaper; it seems with the advancement of man comes the burning desire to know what happens next.

Despite the fact that a chart of the solar system carefully drawn up can predict what will happen to you seems far fetched to some people, Astrology can do that, and quite accurately too.

The most conclusive material ever written on Astrology till date was the tetrabiblos (the four books); it was written by Ptolemy Claudius and contains detailed information about the principle of ideology. The book was used by many Arabian and European scholars because of its cohesiveness.

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