Horoscope would send the king or the king's reports directly on mundane astrology about their observations and about what they had seen in the sky and what predictions they were making about what that meant on earth so astrology during this time was largely focused on what we call mundane astrology which is when the astrological omens are taking as indicating things about the civilization as a whole or large groups of people such as cities and nations or in some instances the omens would be interpreted as impacting or being related to the life of the king
The king was sort of representing the state as a whole to some extent as the king or the person in charge of the country so monday in astrology was used it got really popular by 8th century bce by circus 750 bce and was being practiced all over the place so eventually in the 5th century bce there was an important turning point in terms of the history of astrology at this point the zodiac was standardized to include 12 signs of exactly 30 degrees each so prior
Astrology is the basic structure of the zodiac as we know it today where it has 12 30 degree signs so prior to this the zodiac was a collection of different constellations that lied on the ecliptic and it was broken up into uneven sections based on the different sizes of different constellations and different asterisms but at this point it gets standardized to 12 signs of 30 degrees each right around this time they also started producing ephemerides which allow astrologers to look up the positions of the planets
Astrology basically the mesopotamians started developing or had developed by this point in advanced mathematical astronomy where because of the regular movements of the planets you can predict where they're going if you know enough about their planetary movements you can predict where they're going far into the future and you can also sort of recreate where they must have been far into the past because those movements are periodic and predictable
Astrologers who were also astronomers at the time because there was a interrelationship and there was no real huge distinctions between the subject where the same people doing astronomy were the same people doing astrology and vice versa so the astrologers would literally go out every night and observe the stars and observe the movements of the planets and write them down each night and over the centuries these observations led the astrologers and astronomers to be able to develop mathematical models to predict the movements of the planets
Astrology is big deal around this time a little bit later the persian empire conquers mesopotamia around 550 bce so this may have led to some decentralization of astrology because it's not long after this point that astrology stops becoming simply a state-supported affair where the astrologers are serving the kings directly and astrologers are limiting themselves to to mundane astrology which is predictions for entire cities or countries or predictions just for the king as the representative of the state but all of a sudden
Astrology concept is introduced which we refer to as natal astrology or the concept of birth charts so the oldest birth chart dates to 410 bce and then after that point we start to see birth charts appearing more and more frequently over the course of the next few centuries and these birth charts were relatively simple it was just a list of where the planets were placed on the day that a person was born under the premise that the placement and the alignment of the planets at the day of a person's birth
Astrology will have something to say about the quality of a person's life as well as their future so that was the new concept that was introduced at least by the 5th century bce is this concept known as known as natal astrology and this practice of using birth charts in order to make predictions about the lives of individuals and this may have i sort of speculated i haven't seen a lot of discussion about this but that perhaps it had something to do with that shift towards the persian empire and the sort of decentralization of astrology
Astrology in the previous assyrian empire and other empires in mesopotamia where it was state-supported perhaps that was part of the impetus that led to the shift on the other hand we also know that it was around this time that they started producing ephemerides so that means they could look up where the positions of the planets were let's say 20 or 30 years ago when a person was born so it wasn't until that happened that they really had the opportunity to calculate birth charts
Astrology just observing the position of the stars on the day of a person's birth but that's kind of tricky because if you're not there to watch it or see it you may not know where the planets were so it involves some mathematical astronomy all right so there's the zodiac here's a quote this is from francesco roschberg's book babylonian horoscopes which you can find out there and that collects all of the known surviving birth charts that survive from the mesopotamian astrological tradition from about the first century from about the fifth century bce
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The origins of Naadi astrology as most popularly known, is traced back to Vaitheeswaran Koil, a Hindu temple in Tamil Nadu (India), dedicated to god Shiva.
Tamilnadu (VAIDEESWARAN KOIL)
45/2, Opp. Railway Station, Sirkali Taluk,
Sri Vaideeswaran Koil, Naagai District,
Tamilnadu, Pincode: 609117, India
