Herman's first known translation was the sixth book of an astrological treatise Liber sextus astronomie by the Jewish writer Sahl ibn Bishr.

Crowley renamed several of the trumps, and also re-arranged the astrological and Hebrew alphabet correspondences of some cards, in accordance with his earlier book, Liber AL vel Legis ( The Book of the Law ):

), astrological philosophy from Hellenistic Alexandria, early Christian mysticism, early Gnostics, the Hebrew system of the Kabbalah, The Hindu Vedas, the Chinese " Circle of the Dead ", Egyptian " Book of the Masters of the Secret House " ( Ritual of the Dead ).

Book VI contains astrological and numerological reasoning.

The astrological treatise Book of Sothis has also been attributed to Manetho.

Nicholas Campion in The Book of World Horoscopes lists various references from mainly astrological sources for the start of the Age of Aquarius.

Lucan concludes Book 1 of his epic Bellum civile ( also known as the Pharsalia ) with a portrayal of Nigidius uttering dire prophecies, based in part on astrological readings.

These positions are listed in astrological texts of the early medieval Arabic period, such as Albiruni's 11th century Book of Instruction in the elements of the art of astrology.

Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, and astrological practices of pre-history: vestiges of these are still found in astrology, a discipline long interwoven with public and governmental astronomy, and not completely disentangled from it until a few centuries ago in the Western World ( see astrology and astronomy ).

Many sections are ritualistic ( including so-called ' almanacs '), others are of an astrological nature ( eclipses, the Venus cycles ).

In his preface to the Prophecies, Nostradamus himself stated that his prophecies extend ' from now to the year 3797 '— an extraordinary date which, given that the preface was written in 1555, may have more than a little to do with the fact that 2242 ( 3797-1555 ) had recently been proposed by his major astrological source Richard Roussat as a possible date for the end of the world.

Novara's writings are largely lost, except for a few astrological almanacs written for the university.

Maharishi Bhrigu () was one of the seven great sages, the Saptarshis, in ancient India, one of the many Prajapatis ( the facilitators of Creation ) created by Brahma ( The God of Creation ), the first compiler of predictive astrology, and also the author of Bhrigu Samhita, the astrological ( Jyotish ) classic written during the Vedic period, Treta yuga.

Classical astrologers of note such as Claudius Ptolemy constructed a treatise on forecasting weather via astrological means, but it was not until the year 1686 that a large volume written in English was devoted only to astrometeorology by Dr. J. Goad in his book, Astro-Meteorologica published in London, England.

What is noteworthy about both Cosmobiology and Uranian astrology, which has developed along a different path technically, is their emphasis on critical analysis and testing by observing more clearly measurable or observable astrological correlations, rather than to simply perpetuate observations or assumptions written in historical astrological texts, a problem leading to widespread criticism of mainstream Classical Astrology.

ibn Bukhtishu ‘, who worked in Baghdad about 892CE, is known to have written a treatise on astrological knowledge necessary for a physician, but the treatise is now lost.

The most comprehensive statement of his astrological beliefs is to be found in a work he authored around 1260, now known as the Speculum astronomiae.

" Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson commented on astrological belief, noting that " part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us.

In accordance with an astrological prediction the Emperor believed that he would die around noon, and was therefore restless during this time of the day.

The astrological dates for the ritual ceremonies, at the changing of the seasons, followed are in the 1st Waning Moon of Lunar Months 4, 8 and 12 ( around March, July and November ).

For the Golden Dawn and some Theosophists it retained the classical and medieval philosophers ' meaning of journeying to other worlds, heavens, hells, the astrological spheres and other imaginal landscapes, but outside these circles the term was increasingly applied to non-physical travel around the physical world.

In the episode " Dead Heat " ( Season 2, Episode 8, originally broadcast Sunday, November 24, 1985 ), Jessica is asked what her astrological sign is, to which she answers that she is a " Pisces, the last time I looked ", which means that she had to be born sometime between February 19 and the vernal equinox around March 20.

Normally, during the course of the astrological year, commencing around 21 March at the vernal equinox, the Sun moves through the zodiacal signs commencing with Aries, then Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and, finally, Pisces.

One method is to divide the Great Year into twelve astrological ages of approximately equal lengths of around 2160 years per age based on the vernal equinox moving through the sidereal zodiac.

The great demarcation point in the history of the astrological ages is around 127 BCE when the Greek astronomer-astrologer Hipparchus from observation discovered that the great immovable sphere of fixed stars was not fixed but slowly moving eastwards due to what is now known as precession of the equinoxes.

An increasing amount of the research of the Hamburg School revolved around work with astrological midpoints and use of the extra planets.

In the earliest Indian astronomy texts, the year was believed to be 360 days long, similar to that of Babylonian astrology, but the rest of the early astrological system bears little resemblance.

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

Their criticism focused on the fact that there was no mechanism whereby astrological effects might occur:

Astrologers, nominated by the National Council for Geocosmic Research, acted as the astrological advisors, and helped to ensure that the test was fair.

These cycles would have been of astrological and ritual significance as Venus was associated with Quetzalcoatl or Xolotl.

Outside the Italian Renaissance, yet another major current of esotericism was initiated by Paracelsus, who combined alchemical and astrological themes ( among others ) into a complex body of doctrines.

In some cultures astronomical data was used for astrological prognostication.

Kepler's primary obligation as imperial mathematician was to provide astrological advice to the emperor.

Nostradamus claimed to base his published predictions on judicial astrology — the astrological ' judgement ', or assessment, of the ' quality ' ( and thus potential ) of events such as births, weddings, coronations etc .— but was heavily criticized by professional astrologers of the day such as Laurens Videl for incompetence and for assuming that " comparative horoscopy " ( the comparison of future planetary configurations with those accompanying known past events ) could actually predict what would happen in the future.

The date of the festival was originally set by astrological calculation, but it is now fixed on 13 – 15 April.

That it did not quite attain the unrivaled status of the Almagest was perhaps because it did not cover some popular areas of the subject, particularly electional astrology ( interpreting astrological charts for a particular moment to determine the outcome of a course of action to be initiated at that time ), and medical astrology, which were later adoptions.

Ptolemy's astrological outlook was quite practical: he thought that astrology was like medicine, that is conjectural, because of the many variable factors to be taken into account: the race, country, and upbringing of a person affects an individual's personality as much if not more than the positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets at the precise moment of their birth, so Ptolemy saw astrology as something to be used in life but in no way relied on entirely.

It appears that the calendar was designed to align the lunations with the agricultural cycle of vegetation, and that the exact astrological position of the Sun at that time was considered less important.

Particularly important in the development of Western horoscopic astrology was the astrologer and astronomer Ptolemy, whose work Tetrabiblos laid the basis of the Western astrological tradition.

In 1673 an astronomical and astrological sundial was created in the main building of the college, called " horologe solaire ", which still can be visited today.

Ptolemy's treatise on astrology, the Tetrabiblos, was the most popular astrological work of antiquity and also enjoyed great influence in the Islamic world and the medieval Latin West.

Partridge's reputation was damaged as a result and his astrological almanac was not published for the next six years.

The astrological order of the days was explained by Vettius Valens and Dio Cassius ( and Chaucer gave the same explanation in his Treatise on the Astrolabe ).

The astrological order of the days was explained by Vettius Valens and Dio Cassius.

In an earlier astrological age, the vernal equinox had taken place when the Sun was in Taurus.