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How Did the Ancient Astrologers Interpret the Meanings of the Planets?
Ancient astrologers wrote on clay tablets and it baked them into bricks. There are in the British Museum, in some other European Museum, there were whole warehouses of these things. Astrology is still an empirical science. It's not a matter of dogma. And so with that, give it 2003,000 years of hard work and detailed record keeping. In fact, the Hellenistic astrology was what happened when Greek geometry hit Babylonian arithmetic and everyone went, whoa this is cool?