Saturday, January 14, 2012

Astrology inside Cultural Globe

By Paul Bailey


Millionaires do not use astrology, billionaires do." This can be a quote from John Pierpont Morgan the very first American being declared a billionaire. Astrology has usually been within the public consciousness and it is not surprising whenever you realise how long it has existed.

Astrology has been with humankind because we very first looked on the skies and sought meaning and answers inside heavens. You will find cave paintings, anthropological artifacts and fragments that show how the lunar cycle have been witnessed and mapped out as early as 25,000 many years ago. These had been the very first steps to the contemporary astrology as we know it, of course the science has changed - the incredibly very first astrologers have been doing predictions according to what they knew had happened and the likelihood of similar happenings in th future, for totally practical reasons. Many tribes have been nomadic and many tribes had been agricultural, so these predictions had been crucial for quite a few reasons.



As time marched on, astrology started out to take in on new facets and mankind began to wonder what would happen in the future and astrologers started out to search methods to answer people questions. If the cycle with the heavens could predict what was happening right here on Earth, then surely it could predict what would happen to us as individuals?

The first civilisation that we know used astrology in a similar manner to which we use it today, have been the ancient Babylonians. There are theories that the Sumerian's applied astrology at least a thousand many years prior to Babylonia, but there's no genuine documentary evidence.

So, from close to 2,500 BC astrology has existed within the form which is recognisable to us. To your extended time it was widely accepted being a science that went hand in hand with astronomy and it's only relatively recently that it has begun to be observed in like a fringe, esoteric practice. As you would expect for one thing that has been close to for so extremely long, astrology has shaped and influenced the globe and always in surprising ways.

Did you know for instance, that the word influenza has its roots in astrology? This is traced back to a time once doctors believed that epidemics were caused by unfavourable celestial alignments and employed the term influentia to describe this adverse astral influence. Similarly the term disaster practically literally techniques 'Bad Star' in Latin. Words that we use to describe folks or actions just like martial, jovial, lunatic, mercurial are all in accordance with the planets as well as the astrological aspects as soon as attributed to them.

It's not just language either, after Gustav Holst wrote the 'Planets Suite', in between 1914 and 1916 he utilized astrology rather than astronomy as an influence. He employed the corresponding astrological natures with the planets when writing about them, hence Mars became recognized as the 'Bringer of War', Venus the 'Bringer of Peace' and so on. The structure of this movement once played isn't in an astronomical order, but in an astrological order.

Perhaps the most surprising of cultural icons that has been heavily influenced by astrology is the book and subsequent movie 'Gone with the Wind'. Margaret Mitchell claims to get based her 12 main characters on the signs from the zodiac, this information is stated to acquire been observed in her notes and in case you know the story and characters then there's tiny reason to disbelieve this claim.




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