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]],[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]]. |