Saturday, November 19, 2011

3 Famous Astrologers From History

By Gilbert Karlis


There had been many, many astrologers throughout history - a true count in the those who have applied astrology to predict people's futures is impossible. However, there were hundreds who have come to be well-liked and famous as a result of their talents and whilst it would be a mammoth career to list them all and their achievements what follows is a brief history of three with the most influential and most famous astrologers in history.

Michel de Nostredame

Perhaps one of the most famous of all astrologers, Michel de Nostradame, better known as Nostradamus has remained in print with his book Les Propheties mainly because 1555 and he has been credited from the prediction of numerous on the biggest world events because his death. Nostradamus was born in Saint-Rmy-de-Provence inside the south of Francein December 1503, there is some disagreement within the genuine date, but it's agreed to become either the 14th or 21st of December. He studied in your tiny on a year at the Universityof Avignon, but when the university was hit by an outbreak from the bubonic plague he left. What's exciting that if he had been in a position to stay he would have moved onto studying the Quadrivium (a medieval word that meant the four liberal arts) and the Quadrivium included astronomy/astrology as component of its curriculum, even so because of circumstance Nostradamus by no means formally studied what he became most famous for.

He spent years travelling the countryside researching herbal remedies and via his own self-training, he became an apothecary, a thing that was to result in his subsequent expulsion inside the University of Montpelier, as apothecaries have been seen as getting unsuitable to train as Doctors - his main ambition.

It is unclear as soon as Nostradamus first formulated an interest in astrology, but what is certain was that he published his first work, an almanac for 1550 (it was at this issue that he Latinized his name for the much more familiar 'Nostradamus') and buoyed by the achievement and popularity of this work, he continued to write at least a single Almanac a year until 1562. These early works are known to obtain contained well over 6000 prophecies and it was because of these books that he began to be sought out as a fortune-teller. Nostradamus continued to write his prophecies until his death.

He practised judicial astrology, which was the medieval distinction among what was noticed as natural or meteorological astrology and also the astrology that we recognise today (calculations according to the position from the Earth towards celestial bodies). Judicial astrology was classed as heretical by the Catholic Church at the time.

Nostradamus's life and work are not with out controversy, but he is, with no a doubt one of the most famous seer or diviner in history and his prophecies (Quatrain's) were stated to obtain foretold several events in globe history just like World War II and also the September the 11th attacks.

Evangeline Adams

Far less well-known than most from the other astrologers on this list, but notable in your variety of reasons, Evangeline Adams was born in New Jerseyin 1868 to a conservative household and had a life that in her time was regarded as scandalous. She broke of an engagement to her fianc - Mr. Lord (something that at the time would were seen as virtually unforgivable in society) and she spent much of her life as the companion of Emma Viola Sheridan Fry, herself famous like a journalist, educator and suffragette. In her time Evangeline correctly foretold the passing of King Edward VII, Enrico Caruso, Globe War II, a fire within the famous Windsor Hotel and even her own death. It's said that she also saved the fortunes of thousands of her followers by predicting the stock marketplace crash of 1929. She is popular in the astrological world, her books that are lengthy out of print are a lot sought right after but what creates her remarkable will be the matter of her arrest for fortune-telling and subsequent acquittal and release.

In 1914, astrology was not regarded a legal course of action in New York and Evangeline was arrested for false fortune-telling. However, once it came towards trial, she was able to give an accurate astrological description in the judge's son, based only on his date of birth. This served as proof sufficient for ones judge and she secured her release and acquittal over a strength of her reading. You will discover some that consider that she produced astrology legal in New York, this is not the case, nonetheless what did happen was that her trial set a precedent and that would ultimately bring about a shift during the law.

Claudius Ptolemy

It can also be argued that Claudius Ptolemy could legitimately be regarded the father or modern Western astrology. He was a Roman citizen of that there's no doubt, the name Claudius is really a Nomen (this is a Roman word and can possibly be greatest described as a clan name), while it's extensively thought that he was born in Egypt inside the city of Ptolemais Hermiou (though it's feasible that he was born in Alexandria and lived there all his life). We also know that he originally wrote his works inside the language with the ancient Greeks and that along with astrology, he wrote essential and influential works on astronomy and geography. These combined works had been so crucial and forward thinking that they had been translated and served as the basis for some of the major tenants in each Christian European and Islamic science for many years.

Ptolemy was, and is, regarded as being one of the most essential figures within the art of astrology and his work Tetrabiblos a four component volume was regarded the critical work on a art for many, many years and is still in print today.

The major influence that Ptolemy had on astrology was his adoption from the tropical sort of astrology, instead of the sidereal kind and maybe his work is so popular in that, unusually for the time it mainly concentrated on horoscopic astrology and didn't cover medical astrology and the incredibly well-liked electional astrology (the art of divining an outcome to an action at a given time).

Ptolemy also acted as an advocate to your concept of the person's actions also being influenced by practical causes for instance race, upbringing and environment. He knew that astrology was an significant influence, but in no way saw it as being the sole factor.

Of course, they're just three from the famous astrologers that have graced the art and this short list is by no means meant to denigrate the works of folks just like Galileo, Parameshvara, Bhrigu, Prashar, John Partridge, Carl Reichenbach or the many, many other folks that have both inspired and paved the way for nearly everybody who practices astrology and uses the zodiac to map out astrological charts in an effort to be essentially the most fortune tellers that they are able to be. With out the jobs of these as well as the several others astrology would be a minor fringe art but due to their devotions and work it's some thing that everybody can have entry to and enjoy.




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