According to Parker’s Astrology, “Astrology
is not something to lean on: it shows us our strengths and
weaknesses, and, most importantly, how we can develop strengths”.
For centuries people are depending on astrology to know about
them, their future and so on.
With the aid of mathematical calculations and by analysing
the planetary positions, Astrology predicts the events and
happenings precisely. The stars or the planets possess tremendous
electro-magnetic force. To know about the accurate impact
of a planet on a person an astrologer should know about its
position, direction, transition etc at a specific time. Every
planet passes through a definite period of good or bad influence.
The science of Astrology finds out the period of these influences.
Among the planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn
were known to man since they begin watching the sky, later
after the invention of telescope, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
were discovered.
In Western Astrology, the personality analysis is done by
using the natal chart, a map of the planetary positions at
one’s date, place and time of birth. Natal chart is used
in Western Astrology from the Hellenistic period onwards.
It is a graphical representation of the position of Sun, Moon
and Planets at the exact moment of birth of a person. For
recognizing the positions of the planets and their symbolic
states, the natal chart is divided into twelve signs and twelve
houses. The former became the zodiacal signs and the latter
System of Houses.
The twelve signs in the zodiac are Aries (Mar 21 -
Apr 20), Taurus (Apr 21 - May 21), Gemini (May
22 - June 21), Cancer (Jun 22 - July 22), Leo
(July 23 - Aug 23), Virgo (Aug 24 - Sept 22), Libra
(Sept 23 - Oct 23), Scorpio (Oct 24 - Nov 22), Sagittarius
(Nov 23 - Dec 21), Capricorn (Dec 22 - Jan 20), Aquarius
(Jan 21 - Feb 18) and Pisces (Feb 19 - Mar 20).
The advice of an astrologer will do good for those born on
the cusp, i.e. near one of the end dates between two signs,
as the sun may enter or leave a sign earlier or later than
the usual dates on leap year and time zones. Exact time and
place are necessary requisites for this.
The 12 signs of our zodiac got their name and myths associated
to them from ancient civilizations, probably the Greek.
A brief history of Western astrology
As per the experts, the philosophers of Greece commenced history
of western astrology in the 5th century BC. Greek philosopher
Plato and later Stoics brought respectability to astrology. The textbook the Tetrabiblos wrote by Ptolemy in second century AD laid the foundation for the astrological practice of today’s style. In the later centuries astrology
faded for a period at West, but it came back in medieval period
and it flourished in age of Renaissance (roughly 15th to 17th
century). During renaissance astrology faced its extreme peaks
and valleys.
Astrology was revived in the early 20th Century thanks to the
new spiritualist movement, particularly Theosophy. Writers
like Alan Leo, Llewelyn George, Evangeline Adams et al
brought astrology back to the forefront. Modern developments
in astrology included a western sidereal branch advocated
by Cyril Fagan, astrology applied to the stock market, Cosmobiology,
and the frameworks of Jungian psychoanalysis and human potential
psychology.
Astrology is the meaningful relationship of celestial phenomena,
i.e, the movement of the planets through the zodiac and its
actions on earth. Astrology enables a person to understand
oneself and other people, and the flows in the life, either
good or bad.
