The History of Astral Magic

There are pieces in picotrix, which is this ninth century grimoire of astrological magic that are probably coming out of Egyptian, Middle Eastern and Mesopotamian magical traditions. It takes about four minutes for a fixed star to move from the left side of your pinky to the right side ofyour pinky. So it's possible to do astrology just with literally rules of thumb. You can use your hand to measure the sky. Twenty five degrees plus a little bit more is 30 degrees. That's one sign of the zodiac. And you can say, oh, it's a little bit wider than that’s probably a sign. Oh, those two planets