Jul 26, 2016
The prolific writer, Sanderson Beck, tell us (along with a short trip into a past life) that astrology is probably older than civilization itself. Before human beings built towns and cities they obviously lived much closer to nature than we do today. Certainly they must have wondered about the daily cycles of the sun, the moon, and the stars. Would they not marvel that the great light of the day and the paler light of the night looked as though they were exactly the same size? They could easily observe the waxing and waning of the moon in its regular cycle, which mysteriously seemed to match the regular bleeding periods of the women. During the year they experienced the increase and decrease of daylight in the regular annual seasons which so affected their comfort and search for food.
As dusk turned to night and the "evening stars" appeared, these same non-twinkling lights were also the last to disappear before dawn. As they sat around at night and looked up at the heavens, they would have noticed that these steady lights would gradually change their position from day to day and month to month in relation to the twinkling stars. These wanderers in the heavens they called planets, which is what the word "planet" means.
When verbal language was developed, they would tell each other stories of things that happened or that they imagined; the best of these stories were passed down from one generation to another. Sitting around their campfires or laying on the ground before they went to sleep, they might see pictures in the sky connecting stars together in patterns called constellations. Eventually these pictures became associated with important stories that seemed to be meaningful for that portion of the heavens or expressed things that occurred when celestial bodies were in that part of the sky.
Leaving aside Lemuria and Atlantis which probably had their own astrology, but of which we know little, we can pick up the history of astrology at the very beginning of our current era of civilization more than 5,000 years ago with the Sumerians who used their temples and ziggurats as observatories to record celestial phenomena as expressing heavenly meaning. For centuries they attempted to correlate empirically these phenomena with human experiences.
Their astrological lore was passed directly to the Babylonians who clearly mention astrology in their writings from the first few centuries in the second millennium BC. The planet Venus was associated with their goddess of love, Ishtar. Not only are the twelve signs of the zodiac mentioned but also the 36 decanates. Thus it can be demonstrated that the 48 major constellations in the sky go back at least that far. The Chinese developed their own system of astrology based on their observations and use of symbols from their culture, as did the people in the Americas, particularly the Mayans who were rather advanced in mathematics and astronomy.
However, modern western astrology and even Hindu astrology is based on the old Babylonian system which was taken over by the Greeks and Romans who passed it on to Europeans. I was told by the clairvoyant John-Roger that I was one of many astrologers in the court of Solomon in ancient Israel 3,000 years ago, though Solomon is a Hebrewization of his Atlantean-Egyptian name which was Osiri-dis. He also told me that I did astrology in Israel during and after the life of Jesus and John the Baptist whom I followed.
The three magi in the gospels who were guided by a star to the birth of Jesus were astrologers, though European Christmas stories have changed them into kings. What they probably were following in 7 BC was the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the sign of Pisces. If they followed these planets each evening from the east in the late fall these two largest planets would appear overhead and then set in the west. The term "magi" indicating priests of Chaldea was synonymous with astrologer in the ancient world. More significant astrologically was that Pisces would be the sign of the new Messiah because of its characteristics as a spiritual savior, because the cosmic age was changing from Aries to Pisces, and because the nation of Israel and its kingship may have been associated with Pisces. According to history this threat was taken so seriously by King Herod that he had all the male children from that time period in Israel murdered.
Image: 6th Century mosaic pavement wheel of the Zodiac - Wikipedia
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