Astro

ology? / onomy?

Everybody
knows astrology is rubbish!

Right?

No way can we predict how people are going to feel, or react,
at any time in the future - based on being born at a particular time
of year

Right?

Hang on!

Astrology has to be considered as two disciplines, each one originating for quite different reasons.

1) Ancient (possibly prehistoric): protective forecasting guarding country / Earth.

2) Babylonian (c. 600 BCE): predictive forecasting, initially for the country and advised to the ruler, much later becoming interesting to nobles and then to a wider audience.

We now know, from hard science, that

alignments of solar system masses (planets) do ^link101 affect the reactions and energy output of our Sun - in strict cyclical progression over time.

And that -

these alignments periodically alter UEF 'pressure' ^link102

and could conveniently be divided into 12 periods within the year -

Zodiac
^link103

&

perhaps a cycle of 12 years -

Chinese Horoscope
^link104

And that -

changes in UEF pressure affect human brain & body cells; ^link105

such effects, on embryos, could confer differing basic traits

those traits could be conveniently divided into 12 major groups:-

Zodiacal
^link106

Meta - stage

Therefore an observer armed with knowledge of

a) the effects - on human cells - of each of the 12 annual periods

b) the reactions - of each of the 12 human groups - to such effects

could fairly accurately predict major intellectual and bodily changes in

humans for particular time periods in the future - based on time of birth

of each individual.

Right?

We seem to have come full circle!

Increasingly, real ^link107 data seem to be confirming more
and more of what was once scorned as 'superstition'
or 'old wives' tales' / 'magic' & 'fairy tales'
^{link108 & link109}

Research now tells us that

China ^link110 Sumer & Babylon ^link111 Egypt ^link112
the Arabic world ^link113 then (finally) the European world
each possessed ancient knowledge ^link114

and such 'ancient knowledge' has been continually
lost through destruction from cataclysm, or by war-lords
and tyrants, since before the times of available recorded history
^link115

Someone used scientific data to predict human cellular activity and reactions for some period in the future

Was that a

scientist?

or

Astrologer ?

Astrological - Education - Research

Maybe related - `Legendary' knowledge

All welfare and adversity that come to man and other creatures come through the Seven and the Twelve. Twelve signs of the Zodiac, as the Religion says are the twelve commanders on the side of light; and the seven planets are said to be the seven commanders on the side of darkness. And the seven planets oppress all creation and deliver it over to death and all manner of evil: for the twelve signs of the Zodiac and the seven planets rule the fate of the world.

The Menok i Xrat
(late Zoroastrian book)

`The signs on Earth, just as those in heaven, give us signals. Sky and Earth both produce portents; though appearing separately, they are not separate: Sky and Earth are related'

- from a cuneiform tablet - a Sumerian / Assyrian / Babylonian concept