How did astrology come into being. and how do people predict events by studying the stars?!?

Answer 1

According to my studies,astrology is one kind of formula that has been study and pass down by ancient scholar.When we were born,we are destine by good or bad events.This events happens when we start our journey of life, when the stars clash with the person chart.This formula is very complicated and diff cult to explain in a few words.

Answer 2

I suggest that humans have seen changes happening in the skies right when they were happening, and really saw the consequences of these changes on Earth during history. From there they just wanted to explain the facts and relationships they had witnessed.

That idea may sound bizarre today, because we are experiencing a stable era. Our solar system has not changed in the past 2000 of years at least (scientists might add to that amount with no proof). But before these 2000 years, it's stuff like Jesus Christ, the prophets, year 0(?), the Jewish saga, the construction of pyramids, the greek legends, the persian mages, the promised lands, shintoist wrestling leagues, animalism and others.

To me it sounds intriguing that even native Americans called themselves with animal names and built lunar calendars before Europeans had found them. North Americans, Mayans, Egyptians, Japanese, Africans, Babylonians, Indians, Chinese and Celts each had (or still have) their understanding of astrology. That became mythology in later Greeks case, and was totally messed up in the Romans case (as the new roman calendars can tell).

By the way I find it totally unfair to say things like: our ancestors were not rational, they lived in misery and they suffered perpetual distress. Yeah, and so they built shrines and prayed like Buddha told you to do.

Which advice, modern or ancient, makes the most fools of everyone I wonder.

Answer 3

Not sure how it really came into being, but I do know that the Mayans built an amazing society around it and accomplished many great feats. They were considered great "seers."

The study of the planets and their energetic fields is how predictions are made. Each planets represents a certain energy. Venus represents love, Mars represents masculinity, etc.

Whatever sign Venus was in in your natal chart, will determine how you approach relationships. Wherever Mars is in your natal chart will determine the type of man your attracted to, where Mercury is will determine your communication skills, etc.

Answer 4

Read about metaphysical science & glimpse at geometry. That will help you gain knowledge about this topic. Real knowledge will prevail itself as you go along. Email me and let me know what you discovered. I want to see where "you are". What is your sign by the way? I'm an aquarian.

Answer 5

Astrology
The actual beginnings of astrology are lost in history. From the Old Babylonian period (1800-1700 B.C.) we have the first records of attempts to correlate such simple, basic problems as famine, death, or war with the positions of the stars and planets. These records were kept over a wide range of territory, from what is now Turkey to Iraq and Iran. The “Venus Tablets of Ammisaduqa,” recording the motions of the planet Venus, were themselves copies of earlier observations made in the time of King Ammisaduqa, tenth ruler of the First Dynasty of Babylon, circa 1626 B.C.
In the earliest times, omens derived from astronomical observations were applied solely to the rulers or to matters of public welfare; it was some time before other, ordinary individuals were permitted, by law, to have forecasts made for them. In Rome, astrology was so popular at one period that Caesar Augustus (63 B.C. - A.D. 14) forbade its use as too dangerous to the proper conduct of government.

Astrology was, in its beginnings, a genuine search for knowledge——an attempt to find, in the configurations of the stars and planets, some meaning for humans that might enable them to ascertain something about the future, as if that future were written, obscurely but gloriously, in the heavenly patterns that nightly present themselves to observers.
Only five planets——Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—— were known to the early observers. Since they were named after gods and were believed to represent the actual bodies of the gods, the movements of those objects against the background of mythical figures represented by the constellations seemed important. It was that relationship of god to “sign” that was the basis for the notion that the fortunes of humanity were to be found by examining the night skies.

There were two divisions to astrology at first. Horary astrology dealt with measuring motions of the stars and planets and thereby predicting their configurations. This division eventually grew into astronomy. Horary astrology was essential for performing the second type, judiciary astrology, the popular aspect that offered——and still offers——predictions and trends to the clients.
Such a notion is seductive because it seems to make life simpler. It attributes everything from interpersonal relationships to the destiny of nations to the stars. It appears to eliminate the understandable confusion offered by life, confusion created both by the advances of new technology and by highly specialized knowledge that are beyond the reach and comprehension of the average person, and it seems to remove the need for personal responsibility, handing it all over to fate but allowing a glimpse into the future that might provide some advantage.

Today, though we now understand much more about the true nature of the starry universe, many individuals still cling to the medieval notion that earthly events in their individual lives may be predicted from observations of the skies performed by experienced——and perhaps inspired——practitioners of astrology.
This belief even extends into governmental offices, as in India, where in all walks of life astrology is taken quite seriously, to the point that a prominent Indian science adviser once complained to the American ambassador to India that a primary problem for his department was that they lacked a sufficient staff of competent astrologers. Even in the U.S. White House, a president and his first lady were actually arranging their official and personal schedules in accordance with the calculations of an astrologer who was retained by them. Prince Charles of England, a devout believer in many strange matters, has had his birth sign (Scorpio) worked into the design of his crown that he wears as Prince of Wales.
Astrology has invariably failed to meet not only the practitioners' expectations, but any other simple test of the most basic effect, though the contrary is widely claimed by the believers.
“Sun Sign” astrology——the kind that is found in the newspaper columns——may say that for one-twelfth of the entire population of the world, today is “a good day to pursue new fashion ideas” or that another twelfth of humanity will find this a day to “act boldly on property investments.” These probabilities would apply whether the reader is a Maori lawyer, an Irish fisherman, or a Peruvian geologist.
Opinions on astrology have been offered by persons all through literature and the arts. The philosopher/physician Maimonides (1135-1204) in his Responsa I, said, “Astrology is not a science; it is a disease.” Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540), a papal adviser, wrote: "How happy are the astrologers if they tell one truth to a hundred lies, while other people lose all credibility if they tell one lie to a hundred truths."
The Italian pundit was flying in the face of his boss, who was, along with so many of his fellow popes, dependent on resident astrologers to provide him with advice.
Dr. Erika Bourguignon, professor of anthropology at Ohio State University, refers to astrology as “a pseudoscience and a divinatory art,” and John Maddox, editor of the science journal Nature, has commented on astrology as it was dealt with in his publication:

" . . . one of the things we have published on astrology a few years back was a very carefully done study in California with the collaboration of 28 astrologers from the San Francisco area and lots of subjects——118 of them altogether——and lunar charts were made by the astrologers. It turned out that the people couldn't recognize their own charts any more accurately than by chance. . . . and that seems to me to be a perfectly convincing and lasting demonstration of how well this thing works in practice. My regret is that there's so many intelligent, able people wasting their time and, might I say, taking other people's money, in this hopeless cause." (Sir Maddox was referring to the project of Dr. Shawn Carlson of San Diego, which tested astrology and was reported in Nature.)

Though the Sun enters the sign Aquarius once every year, the new agers announced that in the 1960s the world entered the Age of Aquarius, though it is not clear, as with most notions of these folks, just what that means.
The formal though perfunctory opposition of religion to astrology originates with the possibility that if one's fate is already determined in the stars, sin cannot exist because it is thus not a voluntary action. This is explained by some astrologers by the statement, “Astrology impels but does not compel.”
A form of astrology that says that each planet governs the life of a person for a certain number of years is known as “alfridarya.” “Asterism” is a variety that deals only with the fixed stars, ignoring the Sun and planets.
Though astrologers in general only claim to be able to predict the coming of disasters, those in Cambodia (called “horas”) are believed to also be able to avert them.