History of Astrology Babylonian Astrology: The Babylonians believed that the sun, moon and planets (Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Mars) are phenomena for the communication of God with the humans.

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History of Astrology

Babylonian Astrology:

     The Babylonians believed that the sun, moon and planets (Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Mars) are phenomena for the communication of God with the humans. Each of these planets used to represent God for the Babylonians.

  • "Jupiter (Marduk)
  • Venus (Ishtar)
  • Saturn (Ninib)
  • Mercury (Nebo)
  • Mars (Nergal)"

    Babylonians were the first to name the days of the week in relation to the sun, moon and planets.

  • "Sunday (day of the sun)
  • Monday (day of the moon)
  • Tuesday (day of Mars)
  • Wednesday (day of Mercury)
  • Thursday (day of Jupiter)
  • Friday (day of Venus)
  • Saturday (day of Saturn)"

The Babylonians also considered to the first ones to begin the 12 houses and they gave them names that represent things in real life:

  1. " Life 

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2.   Profit/lose 

  1. Brothers 
  2. Parents 
  3. Children 
  4. Illness/health 
  5. Wife/husband 
  6. Death 
  7. Religion 
  8. Dignities 
  9. Friendship 
  10. Enmity"

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Chinese Astrology:

     There are two different stories about where the names of the Chinese zodiac came from. The first one is that Buddha before dying invited all the animals and only twelve of them came, so he decided to name each year after each of these animals according to the sequence they came with which is:

(The rate, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig).The second one is that the Jade Emperor invited the animals for swimming competition to decide which animals to be name after each year. People believe that the one born under this sign his personality and characteristics is affected by the animal of this sign. 

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There are two stories came from this competition about why cats hate rate and why they hunt them. The first one is because the rate and the cat were the worst once in swimming, so they asked from the ox to take them on his back and he agreed, and before the end of the race the rate pushed the cat from the ox back and jumped in order to win the race. The second one is that the day before the competition the cat and the rate agreed that the one who wake up first awake ...

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