Astrology is a pseudoscience that claims to divine information about human affairs and terrestrial events by studying
the movements and relative positions of celestial objects. Astrology has been dated to at least the 2nd
millennium BCE, and has its roots in calendrical systems used to predict seasonal shifts and to interpret celestial
cycles as signs of divine communications. Many cultures have attached importance to astronomical events, 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 Arab world and eventually Central
and Western Europe.
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