Astrology is a pseudoscience.
Astrology is a pseudoscience : a discipline that presents itself as scientific but which, however, does not respect the scientific method . In this way, their knowledge is not empirically based nor can it be measured.
According to those who believe in astrology, it is possible to obtain information about the personality of human beings and make predictions from the study of the stars . Astrologers, therefore, analyze the location and movements of the stars to provide data on the character of individuals and anticipate events that will occur in the future .
Regarding the etymology of the term, its origin is in the Greek language, from where it later passed into Latin. It is made up of the following words: άστρον , which can be defined as "stars" ; and λόγος , whose definition includes the concepts "compendium, discourse" and "treaty" . In this particular case we must opt for " discourse about the stars" .
History of astrology
The history of astrology is very broad; Human beings have been looking to the sky for millennia to find answers to their existential questions, and this has happened in all parts of the world. The Chinese, the Mayans and the Hindus, among other cultures, found relationships between astronomical events and reality on Earth based on the observation of the celestial vault and this led to the development of complex prediction systems.
However, the roots of astrology have not been clearly defined, since it is believed to be at least four millennia old; However, some experts claim that they are found in agricultural calendars used to anticipate the changes of the seasons and interpret the cycles of the stars as signs of divine messages. Between the years 1950 and 1651 BC. C. , a period that corresponds to the first Mesopotamian dynasty, a form of astrology was already carried out.
In China , astrology emerged a few centuries later, around the beginning of the last millennium BC , during the Zhou dynasty. Just three hundred years before the birth of Christ , the first version of the current astrological horoscope was developed in Alexandria , as a result of the fusion between Egyptian and Hellenistic decanic astrology . This knowledge reached ancient Rome and Greece when Alexander the Great conquered Asia Minor . Then the Muslims conquered Alexandria and then the Islamic people began to study astrology.
The horoscope is the main prediction method in astrology.
The horoscope
The main prediction method in astrology is the horoscope . This system indicates what a person is like according to the location of the stars at the time of their birth. This study, astrologers say, also serves to anticipate events.
For scientists, the supposed effectiveness of the horoscope is given by the high probability, the vagueness of the divinations and a psychological phenomenon that makes individuals remember the successes and leave aside the mistakes. For example: an astrologer can write a horoscope that indicates that people born under the sign of Cancer will have, in the course of the next few days, a surprise. Those who believe in astrology can take an enormous number of events (from a phone call to an invitation to dinner, a job news, a visit or the premiere of a movie) as the “surprise” anticipated by the horoscope.
The horoscope system, as well as the interpretation of the astrological chart, are very common elements in Western culture, where astrology studies the past and present to anticipate future events , in addition to explaining personality traits based on activity. cosmic.