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ASTROLOGY

Published on May 07, 2016

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ASTROLOGY

Jack Pyke

"Telling of The Stars"

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Astrology has been used for (but not limited to):

treating disease, predicting weather, business planning, battle planning, romantic planning, testing personality, predicting luck, and answering specific questions (ex: will I live to be 80)

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Pre-recorded history
Babylon and Mesopotamia
China
Egypt
Greece and Rome
Islamic Nations
Pre-Enlightenment Europe
Modern Day

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What's Your Sign?

It depends on who you ask
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Babylon and Mesopotamia

Astrology used to understand the wills of the gods
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China

Affected by Chinese culture (ex: yin and yang)

Egypt

"Hellenistic," Ptolemy, & Rise of Horrorscopes

Mayan Civilization

Intricate understanding to predict future
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Greece and Rome

Intelligence, influence, and "Chaldean wisdom"
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Pre-Enlightenment Europe

Court Astrologers (ex: Galileo)
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The Enlightenment

Astrology struggling in the era of scientific thought

Horoscopes

Birth of British Princess Margaret 1930
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Synchronicity (1920's)

Acasual: astrological events indeterminate yet correlated

Modern Astrology and Science

No Horizontal Consistency or non-falsifiable
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Modern Adherents

Japanese "Fire Horse" (1950), Indian Hindu influence

it's a sign

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