Astrology is a range of
divinatory practices since the 18th century, that claim to discern
information about human affairs and terrestrial events by studying the
apparent positions of celestial objects. Different cultures have
employed forms of astrology since at least the 2nd millennium BCE, these
practices having originated in calendrical systems used to predict
seasonal shifts and to interpret celestial cycles as signs of divine
communications. Most, if not all, cultures have attached importance to
what they observed in the sky, and some—such as the Hindus, Chinese, and
the Maya—developed elaborate systems for predicting terrestrial events
from celestial observations. Western astrology, one of the oldest
astrological systems still in use, can trace its roots to 19th–17th
century BCE Mesopotamia, from where it spread to Ancient Greece, Rome,
the Islamic world, and eventually Central and Western Europe.
Contemporary Western astrology is often associated with systems of
horoscopes that purport to explain aspects of a person's personality and
predict significant events in their lives based on the positions of
celestial objects; the majority of professional astrologers rely on such
systems.
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