According to the Chinese system of Astrology, the year of birth indicates a certain phase or aspect of a sixty-year cycle of time.

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The History of Astrology -- Another View by Robert Hand Part II Mesopotamian Astrology First Stages In the beginning Mesopotamian astrology was much like that of other cultures, a simple examination of the heavens for omens that might affect the kingdom. Often these observations of omens would include weather phenomena intermixed with true astronomical ones. What made the Mesopotamians different ...

The History of Astrology -- Another View by Robert Hand Part I Introduction The material presented here originally was an introduction that I wrote to a volume of Project Hindsight translations called The Record of the Early Sages in Ancient Greek. It consisted of fragments and quotations that either were directly from the oldest sources in Middle Eastern and Western astrology, or were ...

Contents Home Chapter 1. Some Sources of Astral Beliefs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Even a god cannot change the past. --- Agathon, born c. 445 BC It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence. --- Samuel Butler, Erewhon Revisited, 1901 1. The heavens the physical ones were for a ...