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Unlocked: Myth of the Month 14: Astrology
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
The Origins of Astrology
People became accustomed to understanding astrology as weekly or monthly predictions based on your sign. The crucial piece of information that people carried around in order to receive and consume astrological prognostications was simply their sign of the zodiac. So this way of talking and thinking about astrology, again brought it to a sort of easily access mass medium and mass audience. It continued to be woven into intellectual life and art in different ways. Popular writers and also avon gard writers. William butler yates reportedy was a great devotee of astrology. And military leaders in the second world war consulted with astrological advisers and sometimes even made battle plans on the basis of astrology
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