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'''Astrology''' (from Greek αστρολογία : ἄστρον, astron, "constellation, star"; and -λογία, -logia, "the [[study]] of") is a [[group]] of [[system]]s, [[tradition]]s, and [[belief]]s which hold that the [[relative]] positions of celestial bodies and related details can provide [[information]] about [[personality]], human affairs, and other [[terrestrial]] matters. A practitioner of astrology is called an astrologer. The [[scientific]] [[community]] considers astrology a [[pseudoscience]] or [[superstition]].[1][2][3][4][5][6]

'''Astrology''' (from Greek αστρολογία : ἄστρον, astron, "constellation, star"; and -λογία, -logia, "the [[study]] of") is a [[group]] of [[system]]s, [[tradition]]s, and [[belief]]s which hold that the [[relative]] positions of celestial bodies and related details can provide [[information]] about [[personality]], human affairs, and other [[terrestrial]] matters. A practitioner of astrology is called an astrologer. The [[scientific]] [[community]] considers astrology a [[pseudoscience]] or [[superstition]].

Numerous traditions and applications employing astrological [[concepts]] have arisen since its earliest recorded beginnings in the 3rd millennium BC. Astrology has played an important role in the shaping of [[culture]], early [[astronomy]], the [[Vedas]],[7] and various [[discipline]]s throughout [[history]]. In [[fact]], astrology and astronomy were often indistinguishable before the modern era, with the desire for [[predictive]] and divinatory [[knowledge]] one of the motivating factors for astronomical observation. Astronomy began to diverge from astrology after a period of gradual separation from the [[Renaissance]] up until the 18th century. Eventually, astronomy distinguished itself as the [[scientific]] [[study]] of astronomical objects and [[phenomena]] without regard to the astrological understandings of these [[phenomena]].

Numerous traditions and applications employing astrological [[concepts]] have arisen since its earliest recorded beginnings in the 3rd millennium BC. Astrology has played an important role in the shaping of [[culture]], early [[astronomy]], the [[Vedas]], and various [[discipline]]s throughout [[history]]. In [[fact]], astrology and astronomy were often indistinguishable before the modern era, with the desire for [[predictive]] and divinatory [[knowledge]] one of the motivating factors for astronomical observation. Astronomy began to diverge from astrology after a period of gradual separation from the [[Renaissance]] up until the 18th century. Eventually, astronomy distinguished itself as the [[scientific]] [[study]] of astronomical objects and [[phenomena]] without regard to the astrological understandings of these [[phenomena]].

# ""astrology" Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006". Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2006-07-17.

Astrologers believe that the [[motion|movements]] and positions of celestial bodies either directly influence life on [[Earth]] or correspond to events [[experience]]d on a human scale.[8] Modern astrologers define astrology as a [[symbolic]] [[language]],[9][10][11] an art form, or a form of divination.[12][13] Despite differences in definitions, a common assumption of astrology is that [[celestial]] placements can aid in the interpretation of past and present [[events]] and in the [[prediction]] of the future.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology]

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*Roger Beck, A Brief History of Ancient Astrology, Blackwell (2007)

[[Magic]] was the branch off the [[evolution]]ary [[religious]] tree which eventually bore the fruit of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in_the_Age_of_Enlightenment scientific age]. [[Belief]] in '''astrology''' led to the development of [[astronomy]]; belief in a philosopher's stone led to the mastery of metals, while belief in magic numbers founded the [[science]] of [[mathematics]].[http://urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper88.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper88.html&line=107#mfs]

*Paramahansa Yogananda: [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Autobiography_of_a_Yogi/Chapter_16 Autobiography of a Yogi/Chapter 16: Outwitting the Stars]

== External links ==

* [https://www.dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Divination/Astrology// Astrology/] at the Open Directory Project

 

* [https://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503544140 Astrology in Islam]

* [https://www.freeread.com/archives/short_subjects.php#astrolgy_bible Astrology in the Old and New Testament], by [[Joseph John Dewey]].

* [https://www.esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeIV/astrology.htm Astrology: Between Religion and the Empirical], a treatise on astrology by Dr. Gustav-Adolf Schoener, translated by Shane Denson.

* [https://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/bodies/astrology/astrologyhome.html Medieval Astrology], a learning resource from the British Library.

* [https://www.ou.org/chagim/astrology.htm Astrology in Judaism]

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