Unlocked: Myth of the Month 14: Astrology
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The Origins of Astrology in the West
The theory of conjunctions added a further layer and could be significant for all the applications of astrology, including mundane and natal astrology. All these beneficial or harmful effects can be further interpreted and given more precise meanings based on exactly what uses or signs therein. And in this way, people got down to the point of subdividing minutes down to seconds when the planets were alligned in a favorable or unfavorable way. So all this sophisticated, new development of astrology was going on, overwhelmingly in islamic world, centred, again, in a rock in the same country that had been ancient mesopotamia. It was entirely foreign and unknown in the west. But this
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