Explaining Astrology to a Skeptic
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Astrologers and Astrology of the Past Two Thousand Years
i was wondering how these older forms of astrology compare to the styles that are popular today and um what the value is really understanding historical basis sure. There were long empirical traditions of astrology in Mesopotamia in like modern day Iraq going back a few thousand about four thousand years, and there were long traditions of astrology in Egypt for about two thousand years. Those traditions intersected and were merged in about the first century BCE in Hellenistic Egypt to create a sort of system for interpreting birth charts. That's the system essentially that's persisted over the past two thousand years as we know it now. It tended to be more geared towards prediction as opposed to just character analysis
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