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Do you read your horoscope every morning?
Or are you obsessed with star sign compatibility?
There are even cave paintings, mammoth tusks, and bones marked with lunar phases.
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Astrology became a mere curiosity and a method for gaining more self-awareness.
Astrology helps us find meaning when we cant find it anywhere else.
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What is astrology?
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Astrology is not a science; theres no evidence to provezodiac signsactually correlate with personality.
Your sun sign is determined by where the sun was on your birthday.
Read on to learn about the history of astrology and how it advanced among ancient cultures.
A 6th century mosaic zodiac wheel in a synagogue in Beit Alpha, Israel, incorporating Greek-Byzantine elements. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
In around 3000 BCE, they recorded and identified the prominent constellations and patterns.
Within Mesopotamia, theBabylonians(also known as theChaldeans) became the first great astronomers.
Continuing on from the Sumerians research, the Babylonians created the firstzodiac wheel.
Ptolemaic Egyptian constellations at Dendera. (Photo viaWikimedia Commons, (CC BY 3.0)
Each sign contained 30 of celestial longitude, creating the first knowncelestial coordinate system.
Each segment was often identified by the name of an animal.
Hellenistic Egypt
Ptolemaic Egyptian constellations at Dendera.
An engraving of Euclid and Ptolemy with a cosmological diagram between them. (Photo viaWikimedia Commons,CC BY 4.0)
In ancient Greek, the word for ascendant ishoroskopos, which is where the English word horoscope comes from.
These birth charts were used to read an individuals character traits, and even their destiny.
Ancient Greece and Rome
An engraving of Euclid and Ptolemy with a cosmological diagram between them.
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The Greeks played a crucial role in bringing astrological theory to Rome.
He even coined the term geography.
In 140 CE, Ptolemy publishedTetrabiblos, one of the most famous astrology books ever written.
India and China developed their own versions of the Zodiac, while the Western world favored Greek beliefs.
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