Astrology | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 25/12/2018

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology


00:02:05 1 Etymology
00:02:35 2 History
00:05:03 2.1 Ancient world
00:07:42 2.1.1 Ancient objections
00:09:23 2.2 Hellenistic Egypt
00:10:47 2.3 Greece and Rome
00:12:21 2.4 Medieval world
00:12:30 2.4.1 Hindu
00:13:16 2.4.2 Islamic
00:14:20 2.4.3 Europe
00:15:44 2.4.4 Medieval objections
00:17:26 2.5 Renaissance and Early Modern
00:19:48 2.6 Enlightenment period and onwards
00:20:48 3 Principles and practice
00:21:29 3.1 Western
00:23:42 3.2 Hindu
00:24:35 3.3 Chinese and East-Asian
00:26:47 4 Theological viewpoints
00:26:57 4.1 Ancient
00:27:28 4.2 Medieval
00:29:15 4.3 Modern
00:30:04 5 Scientific analysis and criticism
00:31:36 5.1 Demarcation
00:34:55 5.2 Effectiveness
00:38:08 5.3 Lack of mechanisms and consistency
00:40:39 6 Cultural impact
00:40:48 6.1 Western politics and society
00:44:31 6.2 India and Japan
00:45:47 6.3 Literature and music
00:49:21 7 See also



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Astrology is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial objects as a means of divining information about human affairs and terrestrial events. Astrology has been dated to at least the 2nd millennium BCE, and has its roots in calendrical systems used to predict seasonal shifts and to interpret celestial cycles as signs of divine communications. Many cultures have attached importance to astronomical events, and some—such as the Indians, Chinese, and Maya—developed elaborate systems for predicting terrestrial events from celestial observations. Western astrology, one of the oldest astrological systems still in use, can trace its roots to 19th–17th century BCE Mesopotamia, from which it spread to Ancient Greece, Rome, the Arab world and eventually Central and Western Europe. Contemporary Western astrology is often associated with systems of horoscopes that purport to explain aspects of a person's personality and predict significant events in their lives based on the positions of celestial objects; the majority of professional astrologers rely on such systems.Throughout most of its history, astrology was considered a scholarly tradition and was common in academic circles, often in close relation with astronomy, alchemy, meteorology, and medicine. It was present in political circles and is mentioned in various works of literature, from Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer to William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Calderón de la Barca.
Following the end of the 19th century and the wide-scale adoption of the scientific method, astrology has been challenged successfully on both theoretical and experimental grounds, and has been shown to have no scientific validity or explanatory power. Astrology thus lost its academic and theoretical standing, and common belief in it has largely declined. While polls have demonstrated that approximately one quarter of American, British, and Canadian people say they continue to believe that star and planet positions affect their lives, astrology is now recognized as a pseudoscience—a belief that is incorrectly presented as scientific.