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Revision as of 17:18, 19 December 2002 by Bcrowell (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Astrology is a traditional practice of tracking the positions of the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets, and, on the premise that these have some relationship to human affairs, attempting to determine and apply that relationship for the benefit of the subject.
Western Astrology
Walter Mercado of Puerto Rico, is an astrologer. Rukmini and Professor Zeragro are also astrologers.
Chinese Astrology
There are twelve signs in the chinese zodiac, everyone born in a certain chinese year belongs to one of those signs. They are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, boar. 2002 is the year of the horse, 2003 shall be the year of the sheep. Each year is also assigned an element: water, fire, metal, earth, or wood. Thus, there are 60 (12*5) major categorizations (for example: fire horse, wood monkey, ...). In addition, the months of each year are sometimes related to the signs giving rise to a crude mapping to the sun signs of western astrology.
Chinese legend suggests that the order of the animal signs was decided by Buddha. The legend tells that he invited all the animals in the kingdom to a meeting, but only 12 creatures attended. Buddha gave each animal a year of its own, bestowing the nature and characteristics of each to those born in that animals year.
External links
- Astrology and Science - A series of articles in which believers and skeptics debate the merits of astrology.
- The Astrotest - An account of a test of the predictive power of astrology, with references to other experiments.