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Astrology

Welcome to the astrology portal. Astrology is a group of systems, traditions, and beliefs in which knowledge of the relative positions of celestial bodies and related details is held to be useful in understanding, interpreting, and organizing information about personality, human affairs, and other terrestrial matters. A practitioner of astrology is called an astrologer, or, less often, an astrologist. Astrology is variously considered by its proponents to be a symbolic language, a form of art, science, or divination.

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Horary astrology is an ancient branch of horoscopic astrology by which an astrologer attempts to answer a question by constructing a horoscope for the exact time and place at which the question was asked. (More...)

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This 15th century image from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry shows believed correlations between areas of the body and the astrological signs.

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Did you know...

...that Babylonian astrology was the first organized system of astrology, appearing in the second millennium BCE?
...that Chinese astrology employs a zodiac not based upon the ecliptic, unlike most other traditions?
...that Hellenistic astrology was very influential to Western and Indian astrology?
...that there are numerous traditions of astrology?
...the word astrology is derived from the Greek αστρολογία, from άστηρ (aster, "star") and λόγος (logos, "speech, statement, reason")?
...that astrology and astronomy were often indistinguishable historically?