Astrology
This is the study of how the sun, moon, planets and stars affect events in
this world, not only culturally, nationally and globally, but personally and
individually as well. The positioning of all astronomical bodies at a person's
birth, and throughout his or her life, are said to determine both character and
destiny. Astrological charts are called horoscopes. The Chaldeans were
practicing astrology in Babylonia as early as 3000 B.C. There is evidence that
astrology was being practiced about 1,000 years later in China and by the year
500 B.C. in ancient Greece. There are many schools of thought in astrology
giving rise to a wide spectrum of speculations concerning the meaning of
planetary and solar positions. It was based originally on a Ptolemaic view of
the solar system (the belief that the earth is the center of the solar system
and the sun, moon and planets revolve around the earth on a backdrop of unmoving
stars).
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