About Astrology
Ancient Astrology
Most people today know their 'star-sign', but few know much of the system of thought which relates human destiny to the stars. Fewer still have any idea of its origins. This book reveals the importance of astrology in ancient thought, morals, politics and daily life. Dr.
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Astrology, Science and Culture
Mainstream science has long dismissed astrology as a form of primitive superstition, despite or perhaps even because of its huge popular interest.
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Astrology For Dummies
Features updated charts, graphs, and planetary tablesSchedule your life events around the stars to 2012Want to do more with astrology?
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Astrology refers to any of several systems, traditions or beliefs in which knowledge of the apparent positions of celestial bodies is held to be useful in understanding, interpreting, and organizing knowledge about human affairs and events on Earth. A practitioner of astrology is called an astrologer or, less often, an astrologist.
The etymological origin of the word "astrology" is the Greek word αστρολογία, derived from άστρον, astron, "star" and λόγος, logos, which has a variety of meanings generally related to "systematic thought or speech". Logos is written in English as the suffix, -ology, denoting a "study or discipline".
Although the two fields share a common origin, modern astronomy as practiced is not to be confused with astrology. While astronomy is the study and observation of celestial objects and their movements through space, astrology is the study of the supposed correlation of those objects with earthly affairs. There is no widely accepted evidence that astrology as a system has a falsifiable, scientific basis though individual astrological predictions may be subject to disproof. Where it has been tested, astrology has shown a consistent lack of predictive power. http://www.skepsis.nl/astrot.html Rob Nanninga -"The Astrotest" - Correlation, Northern Winter 1996/97, 15(2), p. 14-20. , http://psychicinvestigator.com/demo/AstroSkc.htm Skeptical Studies in Astrology, report of Shawn Carlson's double-blind test of astrology published in Nature (December 5, 1985).
Traditions
There are many different traditions of astrology, some of which share similar features due to the transmission of astrological doctrines from one culture to another. Other traditions developed in isolation and hold completely different doctrines, although they too share some similar features due to the fact that they are drawing on similar astronomical sources, i.e. planets, stars, etc.
Significant traditions of astrology include but are not limited to:
:*Babylonian astrology
:*Horoscopic astrology and its specific subsets
::*Hellenistic astrology
::*Jyotish/Vedic astrology
::*Medieval & Renaissance horoscopic astrology
::*Modern Western astrology with its specific subsets
:::*Modern tropical and sidereal horoscopic astrology
:::*Hamburg School of Astrology
::::*Uranian astrology - subset of the Hamburg School
:::*Cosmobiology
:::*Psychological astrology or Astropsychology
:*Chinese astrology
:*Mesoamerican astrology
:*Tibetan astrology
:*Kabbalistic astrology.