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Astrology

Astrology interested itself chiefly with the relative positions of
planers and with their conjunctions. Diodorus of Sicily, after
recording the Chaldeans assert that planets change their velocities
and periods of time, says: "These stars exert the greatest influence
for both good and evil upon the nativity of men; and it is chiefly
from the nature of these planets and the study of them that they know
what is in store for mankind."^[4](1)

It is perfectly correct to say as Diodorus did because of the great
changes which were brought upon mankind and the nature of everything
living on this planet by encounters with other planets. But from the
truth of this belief of the Chaldeans and to the wrong conclusions was
but a short distance. If the planets at their different encounters
caused flood, hurricane, or conflagration, destruction of animals, or
appearance of new plants, man could easily conclude that this or that
consequence is the result of a special character of this or that
planet.

The Chaldeans tried to build their astrology empirically: they noticed
every year the movements of the stars, the conjunctions that took
place and the political and natural changes in the realm. Very many
such observations were made and written down.^[5](2) From the idea
that the position of planets influences the nature and the life of
nations and kings, to the idea that it influences a single individual,
was but one step. A fiery character of some men could be compared with
the fiery character of Venus or Mars. In the Tractate Sanhedrin of the
Babylonian Talmud it is said that "He who is born under Venus will be
wealthy and unchaste. What is the reason? Because fire was created
therein. . . He who is born under Mars will be a shedder of
blood."^[6](3)

It was supposed that the position of planets in the hour of conception
is fateful for the building of the character and also for the future
of the individual. So for example in the book of Hindi; astrology. The
Bri-hajgatakam of Varaha Mihira, it is said: "When Venus and Saturn
are in one sign, persons become short-sighted, earn money, and
increase it through their wives or young women, are authors and
painters . . ."^[7](4) Sahagun reports that among the Aztecs
"soothsayers who tell the good or bad fortune children are going to
have, according to the date, time or signs of their birth."^[8](5)

References
1. Diodorus Siculus, II. 31.1.
2. R.C. Thompson, The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of
Nineveh and Babylon in the British Museum (1900).
3. Fol. 156a, transl. by H. Freedman (London, 1938).
4. The Bri-hajgatakam of Varaha Mihira, translated by Swami
Vijnanananda (Allahabad, 1912), p. 321.
5. Bernardino de Sahagun, Historia de las Cosas de la Nueva Espaņa,
Bk. I, ch. 1.
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