Top Research Papers on Astrology

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The definition of Vedic Astrology (“Jyotish”, one of the six Vedangas and ancillary of ageless four Vedas)) clearly refutes the wrong notion about Astrology. ‘The think tank’ holds that Astrology as ‘nonsense’ and not to be taken seriously, felt that astrology needs to gain academic credentials in order to be taken seriously. The academics wondered why astrology needs to find a place at university. After all, it shows no interest in being linked to fields of science. In the present study, it is proved that “Indian Astrology” is an embodiment of all modern sciences and a panacea for all the evi...

science, is appreciated in both accounts and helps to fully show Rubin’s lasting impact. Although she was forced to overcome obstacles placed in her way throughout her life and career, she was determined to reduce those obstacles for the women who came after her, arguing for equal pay across all sectors and equal representation of women on influential astronomical committees. One chapter in the Mitton book is devoted to this part of Rubin’s life and Yeager emphasizes Rubin’s role as mentor by presenting many personal stories, including her own. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, once fully operati...

Ultimately, Rottner argues that SITF is a valuable case study in “managing innovation over time and in the face of uncertainty” (p. xii). The book concludes with a chapter dedicated to key takeaways, summarized in three categories and illustrated with direct quotes from interview subjects. Rottner emphasizes the importance of nurturing relationships within teams of collaborators, challenging cultural and organizational barriers to collaboration, and creating and maintaining interfaces between working groups that make sense for the project at hand. That her book provides actionable recommendati...

The role of astrology in Jewish medicine, which was another field of great significance for therapeutics, is discussed, which was another field of great significance for therapeutics.

This article examines Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī’s occult narratives of sainthood (al-walāya) with a focus on his Naṣṣ al-nuṣūṣ fī sharḥ al-fuṣūṣ, a voluminous commentary on Ibn al-ʿArabī’s (d. 638/1240) Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam. I argue that Āmulī uses lettrism, astrology, and alchemy to construct occult narratives that advocate for the supremacy of sainthood over prophecy (al-nubuwwa). I first examine the relation between Āmulī’s lettrism and Shiʿism by concentrating on Shiʿi narratives about the mysterious occult books, Jafr and Jāmiʿa, that are transformed into the macrocosmic and microcosmic books in Āmu...

In its original Babylonian and Egyptian contexts, astrology was the interpretation of celestial signs and omens sent by the gods as warnings to rulers and the elite. Roman fondness for Stoicism fertilized the growth of astrology in the Greco-Roman world, which developed into a natural science, fully integrated with the prevailing cosmology. Astrology became popularized, and anyone who could afford some level of the service knew basic features of his natal chart. The chapter explains the various forms and purposes of judicial or divinatory astrology: “mundane” (heavenly effects on regions), “ge...

During this century English almanacs of the early modern period have been studied from a number of different perspectives. In 1917 E. F. Bosanquet published his research on the bibliographical aspects of English almanacs, and bibliographers have since continued his pioneering work. Some forty years ago Marjorie Nicolson and F. R. Johnson used sixteenthand seventeenth-century almanacs to illustrate the rise and popularization of the 'new astronomy' in England, and Nicolson in particular emphasized the important evidence to be found in almanacs for intellectual historians of die period. More rec...

Nicolaus Copernicus’s achievements in the field of astronomy are widely known and undisputed, but few people know that he also studied astrology – in his time recognised as a science and a subject of academic lectures. Evidence of this activity, though scarce, is preserved in the margins of one of the popular astrological treatises of the 15 th and 16 th centuries, which was owned by Nicolaus Copernicus. Thanks to these marginal notes it is possible to undertake a consideration of the scale and reasons for the involvement of the astronomer in the exploration of astrology.

During the year of writing my master's dissertation on William Turner’s New Herball, I came across a very intriguing subject on how to cultivate plants, grow plants and how to pick flowers, mushrooms and herbs at the right moment for the best efficiency as parts of the pharmacopoeia.

Telescope observations and celestial novelties of the early seventeenth century impacted not only in astronomy and science but in many other fields of culture, philosophy, and art. But what consequences did the telescope have to astrology, the body of knowledge with the closest ties to astronomy? Curiously, very little research has been made on this topic and current opinion seems to assume that astrology continued to be practised following much of the same premises it had for the previous centuries. In this paper, we present evidence that suggests otherwise: a common astrological judgement of...

This is a book of considerable 'learning', but also of abysmal ignorance. The 'learning' is evident in Lindsay's managing to touch upon virtually every superficial aspect of the history of astral omens and of astrology in Antiquity, the ignorance in his failure to understand much of anything of a technical nature. The familiar names, anecdotes, fables are all to be found dumped in chronological order into his pages; the meaning of it all is missing. Lindsay's extensive, though far from thorough, knowledge of the existence of relevant literature is demonstrated by his compactly (one could say o...

1. Introduction 2. The Old Stone Age 3. The Neolithic Era 4. The Bronze Age and Celts 5. The Cosmic State in Mesopotamia and Egypt 6. Babylonian Astrology 7. Egypt: the religion of the stars 8. The Assyrians 9. The Jewish Legacy 10. The Persian Revolution 11. The Early Medieval World 12. The Twelfth Century Renaissance 13. The Thirteenth Century: Magic and Politics 14. Medieval Cosmology 15. The High Middle Ages 16. The Fifteenth Century: the pagan revival 17. Reform and Revolution 18. Renaissance Magic 19. The Seventeenth Century: the Last Flowering 20. Decline.

"Ever since my first journey to India I have desired to share the knowledge I was fortunate enough to receive. I have also felt a need to dispel some rather major misconceptions, the main one being the fact that Hindu astrology is extraordinarily difficult. This is not true, as will soon hopefully be revealed. Although I have always been most fascinated with astrology because of the philosophical implications and revelations which can be extracted. I have done my best to keep philosophy from this work, as that is not my present purpose. It is my intention only to present Hindu astrology in a w...

An advantage to this approach of reproducing the notebooks is that it lets a reader peer over the observer’s shoulder as Amici records his measurements, sketches double star orientations, calculates average values, and sometimes doodles on the margins (see for instance p. 137). It also makes apparent information that may have disappeared had Amici ever published his catalog. For example, though he tells Herschel in a letter of February 1825 of observing the planet that “will hand down to posterity the glorious name of your family” (not realizing Herschel never referred to Uranus as “Herschel”)...

In contrast to the received view of seventeenth-century London astrologers, which emphasizes their bitter interrelationships, this article draws attention to their endeavours to mount a united front in defence of astrology.

Conservation of rare medicinal tree species established in navagraha/ rashi/ nakshatra vatikas established in urban spaces can refresh the minds of city dwellers by ensuring greenery and enriching biodiversity.

While the Torah instructs Jews not to practice soothsaying or divination, the Talmud includes several discussions about the power of astrology with many Rabbis even arguing that the use of astrology is both permitted and meaningful. Add to this discrepancy the numerous astrological mosaics on the floors of ancient synagogues, as well as certain Kabbalistic practices, and it becomes clear why there is confusion within the Jewish community. This article examines Jewish perspectives on evolutionary astrology throughout Jewish history and its link to current mystical applications.

Origen’s discussion of astrology in Philocalia 23 – usually considered as an odd jumble of exegetical considerations – provides a key to understanding his position on many contemporary Alexandrian debates: the distinction between divination and prophecy, the question of human free will, and the reception of astrology in Ptolemy’s own city. This article will argue that Origen provides the first distinctly Christian treatment of the subject by embedding Greco-Roman philosophical discussion of the questions of free will and foreknowledge into the framework of scriptural exegesis. In doing so, he ...

technical knowledge, but rather as a participative act, a multi-sensorial dialogue with certain dynamic presences, visible and invisible, that draw us bodily into relationship. Embodied in the moment of engagement with its symbols such an astrology, it is suggested, may serve as a dynamic interaction through which a person’s inherent relationship with the cosmos might reveal itself. I aim to develop the hypothesis that an embodied astrology, understood as a form of reciprocated experiential exchange, may be capable of revealing powerful truths, laded with value for those who experience them. F...

Some supporters of astrology claim that various areas of science are really astrology in disguise. For example an astrological principle is that "celestial-terrestrial correlations exist", therefore any area is astrological if it involves things like biological clocks, bird migration, bee navigation, weather and earthquakes, as well as notions such as the Gaia hypothesis and Grand Unification theories in physics. But such things are irrelevant to what astrologers actually do. To describe them as astrological is to claim that modern astrology is scientific when in fact it is quite the opposite....

Abstract   Tamil language is a classical language and is one of the longest surviving classical languages. Recent archeology findings reveal that Tamil civilization was the oldest one. The trace of Tamil is seen all over the world. Also the root word analysis indicates that the most of the languages could not find its meaning in their language but makes correct meaning in Tamil language. Therefore it is clear that Tamil is the mother of all the languages. Tamil has been developed with 3 sangam (Era). The time of third (last) sangam period is said to be BC500 and could even be earlier. Theref...

The object of this paper is to investigate the social status of the astrologer in medieval Islamic society. Therefore, I will not investigate the theoretical status of astrology in medieval Islam, nor will I attempt to analyze the numerous arguments either pro or contra astrology which have been preserved in the classical sources. On that score, I only wish to say that the theoretical framework of the astrological doctrines that were known in medieval Islam were mainly derived from the major tenets of Aristotelian philosophy 1 . In some ways they shared the same fate of that philosophy, but i...

Abstract The paper aims to collect and discuss evidence for astrologers in Egyptian temples during the Graeco-Roman period from several kinds of data, including astrological and astronomical texts, inscriptions, and documentary sources. Material evidence is also considered. It attempts to answer questions of who could act as an astrologer and what knowledge was required to become one. In addition, the paper discusses the position of astrologers in the temple hierarchy and other areas of knowledge in which astrologers were involved.

This book follows a familiar Princeton pattern: a disciple of D.W. Robertson takes over an area to which that professor's principles have not yet been applied in this case Chaucer's astrological passages and provides a moral or philosophical interpretation supplemented, if not always supported, by a generous selection of plates; though those in the present book (apart from the two zodiacs from a Vatican MS, and the Crucifix and Balance from the Wellcome and Casanatense Libraries) will be known to most medievalists. As with other studies from this school, one may be doubtful about the conclusio...

Kepler's Cosmological Synthesis: Astrology, Mechanism and the Soul. Patrick J. Boner (Brill, Leiden, 2013). Pp. xiv + 187. euro101. ISBN 978-90-04-24608-9.Kepler's Astrology. Edited by Dorian Giesler Greenbaum (Special double issue of Culture and Cosmos, vol. 14, nos 1 and 2,2010). Pp. xii + 330. £20. ISSN 1368-6534.Johannes Kepler Gesammelte Werke, XXI 2.2. Manuscripta Astrologica, Manuscripta Pneumatica, edited by Friederike Boockmann and Daniel A. De Liscia (Verlag C. H. Beck, Munich, 2009). Pp. 699. euro102. ISBN 978-3-406-578700.The fact that the hefty volume 21.2.2 of the Johannes Kepler...

recesses of libraries. It was only in the latter decades of the eighteenth century that the learned world began once again to pay attention to the ancient art, when historians of ancient religions and science began to realize the impossibility of exploring their subjects without taking into account a presence that could be neither denied nor underestimated. The history of astrology then began to take shape as a specific field of study, and historicophilological research was able to employ it as a tool for penetrating the tie between mythos and logos, at the origin of western civilization. Alon...

The social correlates of interest and belief in astrology are examined using data from 1,000 respondents in the San Francisco Bay Area. The data show widespread openness to the claims of astrology, interest in horoscopes, and knowledge of astrological signs, although firm belief in astrology is less prevalent. Looking at the social location of commitment to astrology reveals the greatest amount of commitment is among traditionally marginal social groups, although there is also some indication it has been nourished by the so-called "counterculture." Some evidence is also presented which suggest...

Rudhyar extracts from traditional Astrology a wealth of psychological and spiritual meaning. New interpretations of the zodiacal signs, houses, and planets are presented, shedding light on the three basic phases of the great ritual which constitutes the spiritual unfoldment of the human being. This is a book to read and re-read! Each chapter stands by itself, yet is a part in a vast symphony of revealed values and inspired imagery.

Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Sources Introduction 1. From Athens to Augsburg 2. Mathematics and the Sacred 3. The Flood 4. The Campaign against Superstition 5. Confessional Constellations 6. Fate and Faith 7. Centrifugal Forces Postscript Literature Index

between Cotton Mather’s and Jonathan Edwards’s biblical hermeneutics (220–22). This is the result of Mather’s intent to expand both the figurative and literal readings of the biblical text. Given Stievermann’s interest in the relation between historicity and prophecy in the interpretation of Scripture, one might have expected a more thorough historical, theological, and philosophical treatment of the understanding of time in Mather’s interpretation of the Bible. However, a proper discussion may have to wait until the full consequences of Mather’s commentary will have come into view. Stieverman...

The twelfth century saw a large number of Arabic texts on natural philosophy translated into Latin for the first time. Many of these texts were astrological, and had originally been translated into Arabic in the eighth and ninth centuries, shortly after the rise of Islam, from original Greek, Persian and Indian sources. Knowledge of astrology in Western Europe prior to the twelfth century was limited, although the need for Christians to calculate the date of Easter meant that an understanding of solar and lunar cycles was important, leading to the development of the science of computus, taught...

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T H E stars had not been obliterated, for ancient man, by artificial lighting; he was closer to them physically as well as spiritually. In the present volume Professor Hans Georg Gundel, following a suggestion by his late distinguished father, Wilhelm Gundel, analyses the cosmic, astral, and astrological lore of the Greek magical papyri. The material is discussed, in the first part of the book, with reference to the sun, moon, planets, and fixed stars. In the second part there is a review of astrological theories and techniques. The volume ends with a concordance of the sources in Preisendanz,...

Nec, si rationem siderum ignoret, poetas iniellegat said Quintilian of Γ ραμματική; and in the history of scholarship during the last two centuries there is much to confirm his sentence. The elements of astronomy were once part of a scholar's ordinary equipment, and astronomical allusions in the poets, if expounded at all and not left by the editor to the knowledge and intelligence of the reader, were usually expounded aright. The first three lines of Lucan's seventh book are briefly but correctly explained by the scholiast, and Oudendorp so late as 1728 was content to quote his explanation: t...

Abstract Astrology meets a large success in our societies, from the private to the political sphere as well as in the media, in spite of the demonstrated inaccuracy of its psychological as well as operational predictions. We analyse here the relations between astrology and astronomy, as well as the criticisms opposed by the latter to the former. We show that most of these criticisms are weak. Much stronger ones emerge from the analysis of the astrological practice compared to the scientific method, leading us to conclude to the non-scientificity of astrology. Then we return to the success of a...

A humorous book for cat-owners, and a sequel to "Yoga for Cats". It offers an astrological guide to character, lifestyle and personal relationships, and advice to help a cat make the right decisions for health, wealth, long life and happiness.

The story of astrology is traced from its pre-Greek roots through the medieval and Renaissance European tradition to its revival in the past century, culminating in recent research and theories. The book contains a primer of key principles and methods of modern astrology.

. Astrology meets a large success in our societies, from the private to the political sphere as well as in the media, in spite of the demonstrated inaccuracy of its psychological as well as operational predictions. We analyse here the relations between astrology and astronomy, as well as the criticisms opposed by the latter to the former. We show that most of these criticisms are weak. Much stronger ones emerge from the analysis of the astrological practice compared to the scientific method, leading us to conclude to the non-scientificity of astrology. Then we return to the success of astrology,...

This defence of astrology is written by a self-confessed believer of astrology. It discusses the history and principles of astrology by refuting the numerous objections against it, surveying the evidence of astrology, chronicling how this evidence has provoked lies and double standards from the scientific community and concludes that the case for astrology is irrefutable. The book argues that astrology has two central premises - that correlations exist between celestial and terrestrial events and that correspondences exist between the positions of the planets at birth and the human personality...

Concerning astrology, Albert the Great made two major contributions, one undoubtedly authentic, the other questionably so. First, he articulated astrology’s natural-philosophical foundations in his authentic Aristotle commentaries and related works. When I say “foundations”, I do not mean just a passage here or there; rather, for Albert, celestial influences (and thus astrology) are woven into the very heart of Aristotelian natural knowledge, appearing in central processes of nature in several fundamental works, including his paraphrase commentaries on Aristotle’s De caelo and De generatione e...

This is a statement by 192 scientists, including 19 Nobel Prize winners, who call the "science" of astrology a deception based on "magic and superstition".

The idea that the destiny of mankind is somehow linked to the stars goes back over 2500 years. A powerful force in the intellectual life of Greece and Rome, astrology was condemned to near-extinction by the rise of Christianity, but was reawakened in the Middle Ages and come to permeate philosophy, literature and art. Always liable to be debased and manipulated, the principles of astrology were nevertheless for many centuries an accepted facet of religious and scientific thought and daily life. This history of astrology ranges from earliest times to the present day. It looks at the interaction...

Main ambition of the Astrology and Arts project is the interdisciplinary presentation of current state of astrological reflection of reality and searching for its possible parallels in non-discursive symbolism of contemporary arts and music, mainly of neo-conceptual orientation.

ion from which all horoscopes are derived. T'his addition of the zodiacal signs integrates vibration with structure. We now recognize that the application of thirty degrees of each sign to the thirty degrees of each house represents a charging of stru.cture with vibratory life just as a house becomes a home when it is used as a habitation by people and a violin becomes a musical instrument when it is

This chapter argues that Ptolemy maintains the epistemology and scientific method that he articulates in Almagest 1.1 and applies in the Harmonics in his studies of astrology and cosmology in the Tetrabiblos and Planetary Hypotheses. Both Ptolemy's astrology and his cosmology rely on astronomy. Indeed, Ptolemy suggests that their very study depends on an antecedent and complete examination of the stars' movements and configurations. The conclusions astrology and cosmology put forward, however, remain conjectural, and Ptolemy remarks in both the Tetrabiblos and Planetary Hypotheses on the conje...

In addition to celestial omens which are documented, at least for lunar eclipses, as early as the Old Babylonian period, a number of other texts attest to Mesopotamian interest in celestial phenomena and in the stars and their influence upon the sublunar world. Although far from being developed into an astrology as we know it from the Greeks, astral influence was sought in various areas of Mesopotamian science. The haruspex turned to the stars asking that they place reliable omens in the exta of the lamb, and there are also some indications that parts of the exta examined for divinatory purpos...

Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Sources Introduction 1. From Athens to Augsburg 2. Mathematics and the Sacred 3. The Flood 4. The Campaign against Superstition 5. Confessional Constellations 6. Fate and Faith 7. Centrifugal Forces Postscript Literature Index

The popularity of astrology in Elizabethan England is reflected by the large number of references to it in the works of William Shakespeare. The majority of astrological references in the Shakespearean canon are "commonplaces" and do not add significantly to our understanding of his work, although they are of interest in studying exactly how much astrological knowledge he possessed. There are astrological references in the plays, however, that are of significance in the study of character in Shakespeare. In certain plays (Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale) a judgement concerning various indi...

Last spring, with the world at war and the front pages of the newspapers reserved for major events, Calif ornians in general probably did not know how close their Legislature came to making them a laughing stock among the states. At that time Assembly Bill No. 1793 was introduced, which, if passed, would have made the practice of astrology legal in California. By establishing a State Board of Astrological Examiners with the power to grant licenses to persons over twenty-five years of age who had studied the subject for five years, California would have placed astrology, defined as "the study, ...