History and development of astrology

In Mesopotamia, ancient Sumerian and bobby long the night sky as god of prophecy.Watching the stars on the earth, you can see all the stars to keep his relationship with the position of the other stars, which is why people can recognize every piece of constellation constellation.People in the mythical people, animals, and things to naming of these signs, such as Hercules (Perseus), Pegasus (tianma).Each constellation of clusters such as running a team of unity.

In addition to these zodiac constellation, there are some of the more bright stars to run at a different speed, they are known as the planets (Planet).These planets in a running track, the trajectory was called astronomers the zodiac (ecliptic) ".The zodiac was cut in 12 area by a group of 12 zodiac signs, signs of the zodiac, these areas are called (zodiac), zodiac are derived from the Greek word zoidiakos, meaning the animal sign of the circle.Because the ancient not high multiples of astronomical telescope, so the ancients would only seven visible stars named seven planets, they are: the sun, the moon, mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.

Later, some astronomers such as Copernicus (1473-1543) put forward the sun and the moon is not a planet, the sun is a star and the moon is just a satellite, also the planet more than these, and Uranus and Neptune.But the ancients not see Uranus and Neptune, because they can't be the naked eye.In addition, until Copernicus made a more accurate observation of the solar system, people do not know the planets are not revolved around the earth, but before that, people believed that the sun, the moon and other planets revolved around the earth, and the earth is stationary.The ancients sees seven planets as the ruler of heaven, these planets are respectively regarded as god.

From 1795 to 1750 BC, the mesopotamian region is the king of the king of Babylon, han than unity.Before this people is a kind of night stars approach to prophetic divination, published in the period after the first article on astrology, the first paper astrology just focus on the kingdom and the king's prosperity and stability, but 600 BC, astrologers began to make personal chart diagram.At that time to finish the picture diagram, chaldean must first draw the location of the 12 zodiac signs, the location of the 12 signs for every 30 degrees 360 degrees of the zodiac.Then this picture can show when a person is born of god, the god of each planet.This picture set figure can be used to show a person's personality traits and predicted that he needs to challenge in life.Later, astrology spread from Mesopotamia to India and Egypt, then spread to Persia, Greece and Rome.

The strengthening of ancient Greece to the meaning of astrology, although there are individual Greek philosopher of the earth is still have doubt, but most of the Greek people have accepted this statement.In their theory, the earth was the center of the universe, and is stationary, seven planets ring at the earth.One each of the seven planets are thought to have even a huge hollow sphere, earth centered around work.To the earth as the inside from outside to inside, in turn, is the moon, mercury, and the sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the most outside a circle around the crystal sphere is the eclipticThe zodiacOutside, and the ecliptic the zodiac is the dwelling place of god, which is also called the kingdom of heaven.The ancient greeks believe that each person's soul is from the heaven, the souls from the kingdom of heaven is set to the secular earth, need to experience the twelve constellation of the zodiac, after the ecliptic zone of time determines which one you'll pass signs (for example, on November 6, is in their wakeScorpio), and then one by one after every planet, every planet as the cascaded ladder to the inside of the earth, and when the soul experience each planet zone, every planet, corresponding to a soul qualities, this trait is constitutes the soul after arriving at the earth's alien to the body's personality traits.This is the source of the traditional seven virtues and seven SINS.And the chart we draw plan is the soul of this journey as reflected, like maps.

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In the 2nd century AD, astrologers, ancient Greek mathematician Ptolemy (Ptolemy) was born in Alexandria in Egypt, at the time of Egypt is a part of Greece, Ptolemy created a clear and concise structure of the universe, he wrote Tetrabibleos, Tetrabibleos is the foundation of modern astrology, tetra means four, Tetrabibleos means four, also drew a map "" seven order planets.Ptolemy's this kind of space structure has become a medieval and Renaissance Europe standard drawing, replaced by Copernicus theory until 1543, but the Copernican theory before the 17th century and was not accepted by the world.Although the chaldean now no longer believe in the ancient Greek theory of the universe, and joined in the chart in figure except the planet Uranus, Neptune and Pluto (Pluto is a planet by 2006), in addition, modern figure chart and there is no much difference in ancient times.