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5 unusual facts about Astrology


Classification of demons

The classification of demons by month seems to have astrological implications more than religious ones.

Kazhiyur

The village is known for having scholars who are well versed in the ancient Indian texts of the Vedas and specifically in the practice of Astrology.

Lauriston Castle

In 1905, during one of its numerous refurbishments, a stone carving of an astrological horoscope was installed in the outer wall, on the southwest corner.

Moon and Son

The series starred Millicent Martin as a clairvoyant, Gladys Moon, and John Michie as her very attractive psychic son, Trevor Moon, who travelled between Folkestone in the United Kingdom and France, doing readings and selling occult and astrological goods from their mobile "salon" (called "Visions") and getting involved in various adventures along the way.

Niranjan Babu

Niranjan Babu is the chief editor of The Astrological eMagazine and comments on Vastu, Astrology and related subjects.


Antero Alli

Like his colleague Rob Brezsny, Alli proposes a free will approach to astrology, which advocates providing clients with the information to make decisions instead of deterministic predictions.

Arabic parts

Beginning in the tenth century, many Arabic manuscripts were translated into Latin, becoming the means by which Classical astrology found its way back to Europe.

Astrology and science

In contrast to Popper, the philosopher Thomas Kuhn argued that it was not lack of falsifiability that makes astrology unscientific, but rather that the process and concepts of astrology are non-empirical.

Bathilde d'Orléans

She lapsed from Christianity and devoted herself to the occult, studying the supernatural arts of chiromancy, astrology, dream interpretation, and animal magnetism.

Bhaadra

In solar religious calendars, Bhaadra begins with the Sun's entry into Virgo, and is usually the sixth month of the year.

Bṛhaspati

According to traditional Hindu astrology, worship or propitiation of Bṛhaspati or Guru (Jupiter) results in cure from ailments affecting the stomach and helps ward off sins.

In Jyotisha (Hindu astrology), Bṛhaspati is the name for the planet Jupiter, which is one of the Navagraha (the nine planets) .

Ccag

Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum, a collection of ancient Greek texts concerning astrology

Charles E. O. Carter

He served in the army during the First World War and it was at this time he became interested in astrology after requesting one of Alan Leo's famous "one-shilling reports".

Christopher Heydon

Heydon also wrote but did not publish An Astrological Discourse with Mathematical Demonstrations (c. 1608), a further defence of astrology drawing on Kepler, with a short account of the 1603 conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter.

Decans

Decans continued to be used throughout the Renaissance in astrology and in magic, but modern astrologers almost entirely ignore them.

Diogo Ortiz de Villegas

Ortiz taught on the writings of Cato, Terence, Virgil, Sallust and some parts of the Bible, the theory of the planets and some elementary matters about astrology he heard from Tomás de Torres, an eminent doctor and astrologer of that time.

Dweller on the threshold

Alice Bailey in Esoteric Astrology suggests that Mars and Saturn are involved in the third initiation, the initiation where illusion is finally overcome.

Early Irish astrology

Little is known about this native system of astrology, as it is only described in a few Old Irish manuscripts, none of which have been published or fully translated.

Ginger Ale Afternoon

The 1992 album Hit to Death in the Future Head by American alternative rock band The Flaming Lips includes a song called Gingerale Afternoon (The Astrology of a Saturday).

Heinrich Khunrath

John Warwick Montgomery, "Lutheran Astrology and Lutheran Alchemy in the Age of the Reformation," Ambix: The Journal of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry, 11 (June 1963), pp.

History of the Jews in Calabria

Despite Mosaic prohibitions against astrology, this occult art was popular with the Jews of Southern Italy, including Calabria, during the Byzantine era.

Ibrahim Hazboun

In 1996 he published a book in Arabic explaining the basics of astrology; the book was a big success and was even pirated and translated into other languages such as the Kurdish language in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.

Li Chunfeng

Li wrote a book discussing the importance of astrology in Chinese culture called Yisizhan in 645.

Lisa Morpurgo

Lisa was first intrigued by astrology while translating the French book " Lo Zodiaco - Segreti e sortilegi " by François-Régis Bastide

Mangal Raj Joshi

Dr. Joshi died in Kathmandu on 2 March 2005 from a combination of kidney problems and a heart attack, according to his son, Dr. Badri Raj Joshi, B.A., M.S.C. (Predictive Astrology), Ph.D., PGA.

Manly Palmer Hall

He appears in the introduction to the 1938 film When Were You Born, a murder mystery that uses astrology as a key plot point.

Mattu Pongal

Makar Sankranti is a festival that marks the start of northern declination (called Uttarayana in Sanskrit) of the Sun from the Zodiaca sign of Sagittarius (Sanskrit name: Dhanurmas) to Capricorn (Sanskrit: Makara), which according to Hindu calendar usually falls on 14 January.

Nicole Oresme

He wrote influential works on economics, mathematics, physics, astrology and astronomy, philosophy, and theology; was Bishop of Lisieux, a translator, a counselor of King Charles V of France, and probably one of the most original thinkers of the 14th century.

Numerology

Australian philosopher David Stove pointed out different pseudoscientific beliefs, for example numerology and astrology, may be pathological in different ways.

Poorakkali

The Pooram festival begins with the Karthika asterism and concludes with the Pooram asterism of the month of Meenam according to the Malayalam calendar (corresponding to the sun sign Pisces according to the Julian Calendar) to honour Kamadeva, the god of love.

Psychological astrology

One of the first astrologers to combine Jungian psychology with astrology was Dane Rudhyar and his protégé, Alexander Ruperti.

Radiance Digital Entertainment

During his 23 years in game industry, Singman's works include Astrology Fortune-Teller, Sony ISO Formatter, JOHN MADDEN FOOTBALL, Super Puzzle Fighter, Final Fight EX, Tang Chi, TEST DRIVE OFF ROAD series, Big Air Snowboarding, Loony Tunes Racing, Puzz Loop, The Sign, The Age, Magical Land, Crazy Kart, Beach Volleyball Online, GoGoRacer Online and so on.

Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī

He taught various mathematical topics including the science of numbers, astronomical tables and astrology, in Aleppo and Mosul.

Sinhalese New Year

The New Year celebration therefore can be thought as a complex mix of Indigenous, Astrological, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions.

Śrīpati

Genethlialogy was the science of casting nativities and it was the earliest branch of astrology which claimed to be able to predict the course of a person's life based on the positions of the planets and of the signs of the zodiac at the moment the person was born or conceived.

Suleiman I of Persia

A series of natural disasters, combined with devastating raids by the Cossack Stenka Razin on the coast of the Caspian Sea, convinced court astrologers that the coronation had taken place at the wrong time, and the ceremony was repeated on March 20, 1667.

Tetrabiblos

The early 20th-century Humanist astrologer Dane Rudhyar reported that the astrology of his era "originated almost entirely in the work of the Alexandrian astrologer, Claudius Ptolemy".

The Heavenly Body

A neglected wife turns to an astrologer, who tells her she will meet and fall in love with a handsome stranger, much to the dismay of her astronomer husband.

The Land of Stories

Colfer said in an interview with Piers Morgan that the twins in his novel are based on himself, because he is a Gemini.

The Sophia Centre

In 2004 Michael York, the Centre’s director, was appointed the world’s first professor of cultural astronomy and astrology.

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders is the debut mystery novel of Soji Shimada, the musician and writer on astrology who is best known as an author of over 100 mystery novels.

Triplicity

However, astrology by season, in particular has been adopted by astrologers who practice in modern Neopaganism, Druidism and Wicca.

Valivitta Thevar

He noticed the non-availability of medical and astrological facilities and trained himself in Siddha (a branch of Ayurveda) tradition of medicine and Astrology and served his folks as their doctor and astrologer.

Vasilis Kanatas

In this he introduces a new, speculative astrological theory which includes Ophiuchus to employ 13 zodiac constellations and proposes the replacement of the ascendant with the place of the Moon on the ecliptic.

Xavier Petulengro

After the Second World War he went on to write an astrology column, "Your Fate in the Stars", in the Sunday Chronicle national newspaper.


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