As Above, So Below

Astrology began as careful sky watching in ancient Mesopotamia, where priests recorded eclipses, planetary motions, and unusual alignments as signs tied to seasons, kingship, and civic life. In Egypt, temple astronomer-priests refined calendar systems and star lore, then Greek thinkers gathered these traditions into a more systematic language of zodiac signs, aspects, and houses.

By the Hellenistic era, astrology became part of natural philosophy, and Ptolemy treated it as the study of celestial influence within an ordered cosmos. Through Arabic scholarship and the Latin West, those methods were preserved, translated, and expanded across the medieval and Renaissance periods, shaping medicine, agriculture, court timing, and personal natal practice for centuries.