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Welcome to the astrology portal! Astrology is a group of systems, traditions, and beliefs in which knowledge of the relative positions of celestial bodies and related details is held to be useful in understanding, interpreting, and organizing information about personality, human affairs, and other terrestrial matters. A practitioner of astrology is called an astrologer, or, less often, an astrologist.
The Star of Bethlehem, also called the Christmas Star or the Jesus Star, was an object in the sky which revealed the birth of Jesus to the magi and later led them to a house where they found the child Jesus and his mother, according to the nativity narratives in the New Testament. The magi were men "from the east" who were inspired by the appearance of the star to travel to Jerusalem in search of a "king of the Jews". There they met King Herod of Judea, who advised them that the child they sought was in Bethlehem, a nearby village. The magi then went to Bethlehem, found Jesus, paid him homage, gave gifts, and returned to their "own country." (More...)
- ...that there are numerous traditions of astrology?
- ...that the origins of astrology are pre-Mesopotamian?
- ...the word astrology is derived from the Greek αστρολογία, from άστηρ (aster, "star") and λόγος (logos, "speech, statement, reason")?
- ...that before the invention of telescope, astrology and astronomy were essentially the same thing?
This colorized version of the anonymous Flammarion woodcut (1888), often associated with astrology, demonstrates beliefs held in antiquity about celestial and universal mechanisms.
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