Western astrology is a form of divination based on the construction of a horoscope for an exact moment, such as a person's birth.

Western astrology is founded on the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies such as the Sun, Moon, planets, which are analyzed by their movement through signs of the zodiac ( spatial divisions of the ecliptic ) and by their aspects ( angles ) relative to one another.

Along with tarot divination, astrology is one of the core studies of Western esotericism, and as such has influenced systems of magical belief not only among Western esotericists and Hermeticists, but also belief systems such as Wicca that have borrowed from or been influenced by the Western esoteric tradition.

In addition to serious explorations of the Soviet past and present situation relaxation of censorship resulted in an explosion of popular culture including popular Western literature and films and books on astrology, religion, and flying saucers, in short, anything official Soviet publishers had not deemed worth publishing.

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 ).

However, Western occult practice mostly includes the use of astrology ( calculating the influence of heavenly bodies ), bibliomancy ( reading random passages from a book, such as Liber Legis or the I Ching ), tarot ( a deck of 78 cards, each with symbolic meaning, usually laid out in a meaningful pattern ), and geomancy ( a method of making random marks on paper or in earth that results in a combination of sixteen patterns ).

These movements have roots in Transcendentalism, Mesmerism, Swedenborgianism, and various earlier Western esoteric or occult traditions, such as the hermetic arts of astrology, magic, alchemy, and Kabbalah.

The Babylonian astrologers also laid the foundations of what would eventually become Western astrology.

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.

The astrological symbols / glyphs used in Western astrology to represent the astrological signs ( Zodiac )

The astrological symbols / glyphs used in Western astrology to represent the planets in astrology

Though he was a practicing clinician and considered himself to be a scientist, much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas, including Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts.

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He is known both for his original works and for translating many important Greek and Arab scientific works of astrology, astronomy, philosophy and mathematics into Latin from Arabic versions, which were then introduced to Western Europe.

The Muslim World and in particular the Iberian Peninsula, with their traditions of literacy uninterrupted by the Middle Ages, were instrumental in delivering ancient classic works to the growing intellectual circles and universities of Western Europe all through the 1100s, as books were produced there in large numbers and on paper for the first time in Europe, and with them full treatises on the sciences, especially astrology and medicine where illumination was required to have profuse and accurate representations with the text.

Sidereal astrology believes that the starting point is at a particular fixed position in the background of stars, while tropical astrology ( which is adopted by the majority of Western astrologers ) believes that the starting point is when the position of the Sun against the background of stars coincides with the Northern hemisphere vernal equinox ( i. e. when the Sun position against the heavens crosses over from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere ) each year.

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Though astrology is and always has been geocentric, heliocentric astrology is an emerging field ; for this purpose a standard ephemeris cannot be utilized, and because of this specialized heliocentric ephemerides must be calculated and used instead of the default geocentric ephemerides that are used in standard Western astrology to construct the astrological chart / natal chart.

For example, the broch ' villages ' which occur at a few places in Orkney have no parallel in the Western Isles.

George Schöpflin and others argue that Central Europe is defined by being " a part of Western Christianity ", while Samuel P. Huntington places the region firmly within Western culture.

Western Orientalists do not believe that Ibn Battuta visited all the places he described and argue that in order to provide a comprehensive description of places in the Muslim world, he relied on hearsay evidence and made use of accounts by earlier travellers.

Although New Musicology emerged from within historical musicology, the emphasis on cultural study within the Western art music tradition places New Musicology at the junction between historical, ethnological and sociological research in music.

With the expansion of Western culture to many other places in the world during recent centuries, the Gregorian calendar has been adopted by many other countries as the official calendar, and the 1 January date of New Year has become global, even in countries with their own New Year celebrations on other days ( such as China and India ).

Spain is a country located in southwestern Europe, occupying most ( about 85 percent ) of the Iberian Peninsula and includes a small exclave inside France called Llívia as well as the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Western Atlantic Ocean off northwest Africa, and five places of sovereignty ( plazas de soberanía ) on and off the coast of north Africa: Ceuta, Melilla, Islas Chafarinas, Peñón de Alhucemas, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.

The Al Hajar al Gharbi ( Western Al Hajar ) Mountains, rising in places to 2, 500 meters, separate the Al Batinah coast from the rest of the UAE.

Unlike most other places in Western Europe, and the world, Venice has become widely known for its element of elegant decay.

* The automobile vastly increased the mobility of people in the Western countries in the early-to-mid-century, and in many other places by the end of the century.

In April 2010, the undersea cable SEA-ME-WE 4 was under an outage the South East Asia – Middle East – Western Europe 4 ( SEA-ME-WE 4 ) submarine communications cable system, which connects South East Asia and Europe, was reportedly cut in three places, off Palermo, Italy.

Whereas various cultures in various places practiced informed consent, the modern concept of informed consent was developed by people who drew influence from Western tradition.

Haredim are currently primarily located in Israel, North America and Western Europe, with smaller pockets in other places such as Johannesburg, South Africa.

However, in places with Western influence such as Hong Kong, women may ( legally or informally ) adopt their husband's surname.

A significant number of Russians, around 4, 6 million, live elsewhere in the world, mostly in the Americas and Western Europe, but also in other places of Eastern Europe, Asia and elsewhere.

: This subgenre places science fiction elements within a traditional terran Western setting.

As ERPI began to wire theaters around Europe, Tobis-Klangfilm claimed that the Western Electric system infringed on the Tri-Ergon patents, stalling the introduction of American technology in many places.

Gobineau's basic concept, as further refined and developed in Nazism, places the black Aboriginal Australians and " African savages " at the bottom of the hierarchy, while the white Northern and Western European Aryans ( consisting of Germans, Finnish, Swedish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, British, French, Northern Italians, Irish and Dutch ) were at the top ; white olive-skinned Southern Europeans ( consisting of the Spanish, Southern Italians, Greeks and Portuguese, i. e. those of what is called the Mediterranean race, which was regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race ) in the upper middle ranks ; Slavs ( Even though the Slavs are white and of Indo-European ancestry, the Nazis placed them lower on the scale because they were regarded as primarily of the Alpine race rather than the Nordic race, and thus fit only to be peasants.

The 30th SW is home to the Western Range, manages Department of Defense space and missile testing, and places satellites into near-polar orbits from the West Coast.

* List of places in the Western Isles

# A procession or march to one of Jerusalem's holy places, ex: The Western Wall.

" This text often presents longer variants of text, but in few places, including the end of the Gospel of Luke, it has shorter variants, named Western non-interpolations.

The first is via the Western Freeway and the Pentland Hills Road to Myers Road, a gravel road steep in places.

The Western definition based on solstice to equinox is more frequently used where a temperature lag of up to half a season is common.

Practice relies primarily on the sidereal zodiac, which is different from the tropical zodiac used in Western ( Hellenistic ) astrology in that an ayanamsa adjustment is made for the gradual precession of the vernal equinox.

From 1960 to 1995, the Northward equinox always fell at such a time that New Year's Day in Iran occurred on the day called 21 March in the Western calendar.

In Western astrology, astrological signs are the twelve 30º sectors of the ecliptic, starting at the vernal equinox ( one of the intersections of the ecliptic with the celestial equator ), also known as the First Point of Aries.