'Astronomy is said to be the oldest and noblest of the physical sciences. Yet, the earliest astronomers were astrologers who studied the movement of the heavenly bodies to determine their influences on the lives of men and nations. Because of the clear atmosphere prevailing over the plains and plateaus of Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Egypt, Arabia, China, India and Greece, ancient astrologers were able to read the position of the heavenly bodies with the naked eye.

Long before the emergence of the solar zodiac, during the 2nd millennium BC a Babylonian magician-priest was interpreting heavenly omens daily, based only upon the impression the heavenly phenomena  left on him. Not bound by an imperative of any kind of mathematical or astronomical calculations, he could draw his conclusions based upon the feeling stirred up in him after he had observed the sky. The only thing he wrote down were the phenomena of the colours surrounding the discs of the Sun, Moon and the five planets in the moment of their heliacal stations.

Once there were two sisters living under the same roof, astronomy and astrology.  Sometime they separated because of a man named Copernicus. Later on the older one, astronomy, got hooked with  Galilei whereas astrology has remained a spinster.  She isn't jealous of her older sister, though.  She respects and consults her.  On the contrary, astronomy despises astrology. Here are discussed the most common arguments of astronomy against astrology.

Blog on researching new territories in astrology and writing astrology software.