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History of Astrology Timeline
Here is a rough timeline of this ancient practice, which has existed for nearly as long as humanity.
30,000-10,000 B.C.
The astrological roots began with the earliest civilization. Maps of the stars existed long before maps of the earth. Archaeologists have found cave paintings, mammoth tusks, and bones marked with lunar phases.
Man has long coped with uncertainty and the change brought on by nature’s cycles by tracking the stars—the seven visible planets were our first GPS.
6,000 B.C.
In Mesopotamia, the Sumerians note the movements of the stars and planets. The influences of an individual’s planets are also related to its general indications. As regarded by Mesopotamian texts as ominous. It is also considered as its presiding deity’s traits in Greek mythology.
But, on them are also a superimposed system of the four elements and qualities. Lists of sublunar substances, and Pythagorean opposites, too. Furthermore, the omens and the modes of the planetary motions are carefully considered.
Since the strengths are partly determined by their phases with respect to the Sun. They also exert a mutual influence both by occupying each other’s houses and by means of conjunction and aspects.
2,400-331 B.C.
The Chaldeans (also known as the Babylonians) continued what the Sumerians started. Inventing the first astrological system over thousands of years. They created the zodiac wheel that we use today (with planets and houses) around 700 B.C. The oldest known horoscope chart is also believed to date to 409 B.C.
In the early or 3rd century B.C., Babylonian diviners began. Its purpose is for predicting the course of an individual’s life. This is to utilize some planetary omens. Namely, latitudes, retrogressions, and positions relative to the horizon. Also, other parts of computed conception or at the moment of birth.
This method was still far of reach from astrology. But, its evolution was more or less parallel and contemporary with the development of the science of genethlialogy.
331 B.C.-5th Century A.D.
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Alexander the Great conquered Babylon/Chaldea. The Greeks eventually started making advances in astrology. And developments in medicine, geometry, mathematics, and philosophy. The modern names for planets and zodiac signs come from Greek literature.
In 140 A.D., Ptolemy published Tetrabiblos, one of the most revered astrology works ever written. Tetrabiblos contains core techniques of astrology used to this day. This includes planets, zodiac signs, houses, and aspects (or angles).
The Greeks make outstanding advances in the fields of both astrology and astronomy. Their analytical approach to the heavens led to extraordinary brilliance in astronomy. Even though they blinded European astronomers for more than a millennium with a false Ptolemaic system.
Simultaneously, astrology benefits from the range and vitality of the Greek gods. These very human divinities are also linked with the planets and constellations. Making astrology dramatic and exciting.
And Greek interest in the individual extends the astrologers’ range. Evolved originally to help in state affairs, the art finds its lasting role in casting the fortunes of ordinary men and women.
https://trusted-astrology.com/history-of-astrology/