The Evolution of Astrology

The astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus proposed a complete reorganisation of the way these revolutions take place so that they orbited around the Sun in his major work, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. The word revolution then took on its modern form meaning a major and fundamental change to the order of things. Some philosophers believed that the world could be saved from disaster if future troubles could be predicted – and subsequently averted. Although it was originally developed in ancient Babylon there have been three subsequent major periods of developments. In 120 AD the Greek astrologer Claudius Ptolemy set down the fundamentals of astrology in his famous treatise, the Tetrabiblos. Morever, some astrologers added many more techniques, particularly the use of the cycles of Jupiter and Saturn to identify the rise and fall of states and religions. The twentieth century saw a major circulation of techniques primely based on the use of planetary cycles rather than, as had always been the case the interpretation of planetary positions in horoscopes or natal charts. The medieval western astrologers used a sidereal zodiac. They had all the vedic knowledge transmitted through the following route Vedic - Babylonian - Egyptian - Greek - Roman; in fact lot of the knowledge which was known in middle ages is secret now.