Astrology in ancient Egypt?

What is the origin of astrology? Because of its age, it can't be verified, but it can be traced back to ancient times from ancient legends and handed down documents.

More than 3000 years ago, on the Mesopotamian plain formed by the alluvial rivers of Euphrates and Tigris. At that time, the ancient nomadic people combined the observation of the five planets, such as the sun and the moon, with the worship of celestial bodies and the primitive belief of human beings, and developed a form of divination, which formed the basis of astrology today. At that time, astrology was used to predict the weather, the harvest of crops and all the changes in nature and human beings.

It was not until more than 600 years ago that the Chaldeans who established the great kingdom of Mesopotamia with Babylon as its capital systematically summarized and sorted out astrology. At that time, observing the movement of celestial bodies with naked eyes, the Chaldeans made unique achievements in mathematics and calendar. The calendar we use now was created by astrologers of the Chaldeans at that time. In modern western culture, honeymoon after wedding is also the first way they adopt. This is an astrological ceremony, which means * * * opens the door to happiness.

In the 5th century BC, Babylonians divided the ecliptic into twelve 30-degree palaces, and the earliest known star chart appeared in 409 BC. Later, the Greeks regarded the sun, the moon and the planets in the solar system as gods in ancient Greek mythology. Later, the Latin names of these Greek gods were adopted by later astrology.

According to the cosmological model proposed by astronomers, astrologers define the relationship between the motion of stars and the imaginary distance of the earth. Astrologers have established a complete correspondence between planets, constellations and everything in the world, so astrology is more and more widely used. Simply put, the idea of astrology is to combine the micro-universe representing the world on earth with the macro-universe representing the world in heaven, that is, the concept of "harmony between man and nature".

@ Interesting new discovery

The origin of the constellation seems to be older, and it may be the remains of ancient civilization. From the moving coordinates between Leo and vernal equinox represented by the Sphinx, the constellation tells us the time. More than ten thousand years ago, some people built the Sphinx. Isn't it interesting?

The myth of primitive times

The goddess nut in the sky, stretching her charming body, crossed the horizon of her husband's SEB. The body is decorated with this dazzling star, and the ship of the sun god RA floats on its back, sailing from sunrise to sunset. Every morning, Rui was born as a baby, grew into a great god at noon and died of aging at dusk. Therefore, all astrology regards the sunrise to sunset of the sun every day as the process of birth, adulthood and old age.

@ Planets, Phases and Houses

Astrology defines the different personality characteristics of the twelve constellations, and then calculates the positions of the planets in the twelve constellations in the solar system at that time based on the positions of all parties. However, the angles between the stars are changing at any time and have different interpretations, so even people born on the same day will have different horoscopes, and the earth itself will rotate, with a longitude difference every four minutes. The horoscopes are determined according to the eastern horizon at the time of birth.

Astrology itself is like an arithmetic problem. The more accurate the data, the better (preferably seconds), so the results of astrology are more valuable. Astrology involves complex celestial movements, so ancient astrologers know a little about astronomy, which is also the reason.

Origin of @ 12 and 88 constellations

In ancient times, in order to facilitate navigation and observe astronomical phenomena, people connected the scattered stars in the sky through imagination. Half of them were named in ancient times, and the naming method was based on the myths and forms of ancient civilizations (including the myths and epics of Mesopotamia, Babylon, Egypt and Greece). The other half (mostly in the night sky in the southern hemisphere) was named only in modern times, and is often named after navigation instruments.

In ancient times, because of different regions, even the way of seeing was different! Now the world has unified the constellation map into 88 constellations and divided the sky into 88 regions.

The "constellation" we usually say refers to the "sun constellation"; That is to say, with the human being on the earth as the center, and at the same time, we can see which constellation is in the orbit of the sun (Greek ecliptic: meaning the circle formed by animals, also known as "ecliptic"), we can say what constellation that person is.

More than 2000 years ago, the Greek astronomer Hipparchus (190 ~ 120 BC) divided the ecliptic into twelve segments, with spring divided into zero, and every 30 degrees from the vernal equinox (that is, the zero degree of the ecliptic) as a palace, taking the main constellations contained in each palace at that time. There are twelve constellations in all. Babies born when the earth moves to every fraction (constellation) will always have some similar characteristics when they grow up, including behavioral characteristics. By connecting these associations (rich imagination and creativity) in series, these constellations are visualized; It also adds the color of myth and becomes an important part of culture (mainly Greek and Roman mythology). This set of numerology has been developed and circulated for at least five thousand years, represented by these twelve constellations respectively. But these constellations do not represent a certain "star", but can only be regarded as "representative symbols of the same name".