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The History of Astrology
There's no distinction, for thousands of years in human history, between astrology and astronomy. Even though we tend to think of astrology as something that is a scientific or even anti-scientific, that's not historically the case. People did have some grounds for believing that there can be a kind of causal relationship between the celestial and the terrestrial realm. And so scientists and astrologers were called by the same name, just with a different qualified. The rise of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century and the rise of copernicanism, that's when the split happens between astrology & astronomy.
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