Wednesday, December 31, 2008

The Benefits of Horoscope and Psychic Readings

By Charlie Reese

I enjoy getting free psychic readings and reading my free daily horoscope in the newspapers. I find that the field of astrology is amazing because you can always learn something new from it. I have listened to many people talk about astrology as if it meant something a lot bigger than what is actually is. This means that a lot of people find astrology to be confusing and hard to understand. Many people choose to hire an astrology expert to give them a live psychic reading on the areas of: love, money, career, real estate, health and other issues that matter to the heart.

You can actually learn about astrology if you put your mind and your heart to it. It only takes a few moments of your time each day to try and boost your intelligence in this area. I suggest that if you decide to get a horoscope reading today, then you should always make sure that you have the right zodiac sign. Some people don?t realize that you have to know your zodiac sign before you actually go to read your daily horoscope. Some people actually read every horoscope on the page and think that every message pertains to them in some way.

It?s amazing because astrology and horoscopes clearly state that your birthday matters a whole lot in terms of what the stars are really saying about you. Astrology is one of the oldest practiced religions in the world and it?s been around since the days of the Old Testament. The Old Testament makes references to witches, sorcerers and astrologers in several areas. These were mainly known as Egyptian practices at the time.

You can study your horoscope on a weekly basis. The more that you get into it, the more it will make sense to you. It?s amazing that astrologers can see into the future using astrology. Nostradamus himself used astrology to chart out events that would later on happen in the world that we live in. He mapped out earth disasters and earth shattering events. He knew the future by just mapping out an astrology chart.

Psychic readings and horoscopes have now become an American thing. I think that more and more Americans are concerned about their daily horoscope more than ever before. Maybe it is because they know that it has significant meaning and perhaps people understand that astrology can open your eyes to love and to what is really happening inside of your life.

In my opinion, you have to study astrology daily if you are ever really going to learn it. Some astrologers grow up knowing how to give people accurate astrology reports. Others are not astrology experts and still like to tell you what they see. A true astrologer can see into the future. They enjoy giving you live psychic readings because it helps them to grow in their astrological gift as well. In my opinion, you have to try and read your horoscope daily if you are ever going to feel that astrology is really helping you. Your zodiac sign has significant meaning for your life.

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Monday, December 29, 2008

Astrological Charater Traits of Jesus?

By Peter Chavell

Astrologically, the combination of Venus and Jupiter indicates the best of success, good fortune and higher values.

Australian astronomer, Dave Reneke, has taken the Bible story of the birth of Jesus and used it to identify an astronomical phenomena that matches the description of the bright, slow-moving star that coincided with this birth.

Astronomer, Dave Reneke's research points to 17 June 2 BC as being the most likely date of the birth of Jesus, as the planets Venus and Jupiter were in the same location in the night sky and produced the effect of an unusually bright, slow-moving star.

Neptune in Scorpio indicated a strong capacity to heal based on deep spiritual beliefs. In addition Neptune was in the sign that Pluto rules, further reinforcing the positive connection between them.

The reputation that of Jesus is one of a person who is able to relate well to children. When we look at the horoscope of 17 June 2 BC we see that Mercury was in Cancer.

This combination of planets suggests to astrologers the birth of a person for whom spiritual leadership and actively expressed compassion would be likely character traits.

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Your Horoscope Chart Mapped Out

By Charlie Reese

Many people in the psychic industry enjoy checking their horoscopes daily. This astrological chart can carefully map out a person love life and their daily life in general. Millions of people search out their astrology chart every single day. They tend to do it for various different reasons. I think that the main reason for someone wanting to know more about their astrological chart is to know their future. Everyone needs direction in life and sometimes when we get direction, we tend to use it to our advantage. We tend to go ahead in our lives to the extent that we can benefit our life and the lives of others that are all around us.

I think that when we become influenced by people that are around us, we can begin to see and realize that we are not alone in this world and that perhaps there is a higher power out there that actually governs us each and every day.

Lots of people that I talk to want to know why they feel drawn to their horoscope and to astrology. I think it?s because you can learn about your sign and see how you measure up to someone else?s prediction. Astrology has been practiced for centuries and is used mainly by the Chinese and Indian culture. In the 20th century, astrology became popular amongst many Americans and therefore has become a worldwide practice.

The ancient practice of astrology is really for people who want to get to know more about astrology in some sort of way. I think that when someone has a philosophical approach towards life, they can have a tendency of growing and learning about something over time. You can really begin to grow and learn more about yourself with time. When you have a lot o f time on your hands, you can actually begin to learn more about you in various different ways. I think that people in general have to have a good reason for finding themselves. We all have roots to something inside of our lives and sometimes we have to see just how far we can get with our spiritual energy.

If you try to look at your life and realize that it may not be everything that you thought it could be, you can somehow find yourself loosing yourself in the moment of things. I think that people in general have to see themselves acting very powerful in nature. When they do this, they begin to realize and act more openly about themselves in some sort of a way. You can learn more about you every step of the way as long as you act like you are really moving in one significant direction.

The next time that you are reading your daily horoscope, I suggest that you look at your own life and feel the energy that may have brought it to you in the first place. This is a window of opportunity for you to grow and to be alive in. You have the world awaiting you and you can improve your spiritual life with time.

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Friday, December 12, 2008

Horoscopic Astrology Development and Ptolemaic Alexandria

By Sara Bright

The article is intended to be pleasing to those readers who have a natural curiosity. There are books and articles out there on the that pertain to to the heavens you can really enjoy and you don't have to be a genius to understand them. You can just sit back and spend time relaxing while you enjoy basking in their knowledge. Personally, I am completely different.

Western astrology is based in ancient times, long before the Greeks began watching the skies. The people who settled in Mesopotamia (roughly, present-day southern Iraq) around 4000 BC considered the sun, the moon and Venus to be gods, or the homes of gods. Mixed with the other people were those who were believed to have the ability to contact Gods. They were able to tell of future events such as eclipses through keeping an eye on the planets and stars. The astrological theories that were gradually developed in ancient Mesopotamia are the basis upon which later astrological traditions were built, including classical Greek and Hellenistic astronomy. Hellenistic astrology has a hand in influencing other types of astrology.

So what is Ptolemaic Alexandria? Alexander the Great founded the Egyptian city of Alexandria in 331 BC, and the city later became the Ptolemaic Kingdom's capital (named after its first ruler, Ptolemy) from 332 BC (when Alexander died) up until the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BC. Alexandria continued to be the capital of Egypt for nearly a thousand years until the Muslim conquest of the country in the middle of the 7th century AD and Hellenism (the Greek way of life spread by Alexander) continued to prosper there throughout that time.

The distinguishing feature of Hellenism was the blend of Classical Greek culture and the cultures of the peoples to the east and south conquered by Alexander the Great. In Alexandria, this translated into a mixture of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Macedonian, Persian, Syrian, Jewish, and Babylonian (Mesopotamian) cultures. One aspect of the rich cultural activity underway in Ptolemaic Alexandria was the development of astrology. (usually the conception or the birth of a person); most contain no predictions. Nevertheless, Horoscopic Astrology had its beginning in Babylonian Astrology.

During the middle of the 4th century BC, Babylonian astrology was introduced in Greece and using the names of the Gods in Greek mythology, the two practices blended together introducing those familiar names we know today. It was the development of the Horoscopic Astrology under Hellenistic rule in Ptolemaic Alexandria however that was the major contribution of the Greeks to Western Astrology.

The nucleus of Greek society, Ptolemaic Alexandria, melded the traditions of Babylonian astrology and Pharaonic Egyptian astronomy together. In Greece, India, and Egypt, Greek had evolved into a major form of communicating, which allowed knowledge to be shared amongst those countries. Hellenistic astrology was built on Egyptian and Babylonian traditions and produced a system of Horoscopic Astrology that is the origin of the modern day western Horoscopic Astrology.

The work of an astronomer / astrologer by the name of Claudius Ptolemy was particularly important to the development of horoscopic astrology in Alexandria at the time. Ptolemy was a Hellenistic scholar and although he was born in the south of Egypt (85 BC?) and died in Alexandria (165 BC?), no one knows whether he was Egyptian or Greek. It does not matter if he was a Greek born in Egypt with a Roman citizenship.

Ptolemy, a writer, is famous for his works the Tetrabiblios (where he compiled all known astrological theories of the time), and the Almagest (a thirteen volume discussion of how the solar system functions). Ptolemy not only believed that the earth was round, he also thinks that the sun and the planets revolved around the earth. The Ptolemaic theory taught astronomy students that the sun revolved around the earth for 1400 years, until it was found that the opposite was true. In spite of his contribution to the theory of Horoscopic Astrology, no horoscopes actually made by Ptolemy have ever been discovered.

There are many zodiacs from the Ptolemaic era which give proof of Egypt's contributions to Horoscopic Astrology. The most widely known of these is the Dendera zodiac, found on the ceiling of a chapel dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Osiris. You will be able to visit and glance at these articles in the Louvre Museum in Paris.

In the early 19th century, the renowned French linguist Jean-Francois Champollion (who, just a few years earlier, had managed to decipher hieroglyphics) correctly dated the Dendera zodiac to the Ptolemaic era. The accepted date of 50 BC is shown the set date of the stars and planets. The Dendera zodiac shows the twelve constellations and this is the map of the starts in plane projection (the band of the zodiac) making the 36 ten-day Decans, as more proof of how the Babylonian astrology combined with the traditional Egyptian Decan astrology.

The Horoscopic Astrology developed by Hellenistic scholars in Ptolemaic Alexandria was the result of the fusion of Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greek astrology. The seventh century AD marked the end of Hellenistic astrology. In the eighth century, Muslim scholars revitalized interest in the basic elements of ancient astronomy to provide the original source for Western Horoscopic Astrology as we know it today.

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