About The History Of Horoscopes

Learn about the history of horoscopes and where they originated. Horoscopes are a fascinating subject with different interpretations in different parts of the world. They are used for many different reasons.

The history of horoscopes

Astrology is one of the ancient philosophies which still exist in the world today. Many believe that it was found around 3000 years back; however some recent studies assumes that it may have been in existence even before that. Horoscopes are interwoven with Astrology.

Horoscopes in the ancient past and even today is used to predict immediate future events as well as long term future prospects and concerns of countries and its wars' economic trends and even personal well being.

In countries where astrology was mainly used as the basis of decision making' people used the signs of the stars to determine farming and harvesting and other day to day living activities.

It is thought that horoscope and astrology began from the ancient Greeks. ‘Astrology' is a Greek terms which means ‘Science of the Stars'. They believed that the position of the sun and the planets that orbit around it affected earth and its living creatures. Thus' the future happenings of humans can be predicted based on the planets locations and positioning.

Later' people in China started studying and using astrology and it is said that it was the Chinese who first used astrology for their farming and deciding of best seasons and months for different planting cycles.

Plato' somewhere in the 500BC was interested in Astrology and had studies the subject. This has kept the interest going and later Egypt' around in 300 BC flourished the subject when they showed a keen interest in it.

However' in later years' astrology subsided with the introduction to the Catholic Church' which did not have a belief in this science at the time. It was later an astrologer' William Lilly who introduced astrology in 1600's as the ‘Christian Astrology' which became more accepted and widely used since then.