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JULIA & DEREK PARKER introduction the history of astrology the signs of the zodiac the planets the houses, aspects & returns Pages 10–13 Pages 14–47 Pages 48–197 Pages 198–245 Pages 246–289 other areas of astrology Pages 290–301 how to draw up your chart Pages 302–347 contents Astrology EYE WITNESS com pan ions $25.00 USA $30.00 Canada EYE WITNESS C O M PA N IO N S HISTORY • ASTROLOGICAL TECHNIQUES SIGNS AND PLANETS • CHARTS AND TABLES Astrology Astrology JULIA & DEREK PARKER JULIA EYE WITNESS C O M PA N IO N S Astrology Signs of the Zodiac Identify the key characteristics of the Sun, Moon, and Rising signs. Astrology through the ages Trace the history of astrology from ancient times to the present day and its relationships with science and religion. HISTORY • ASTROLOGICAL TECHNIQUES SIGNS AND PLANETS • CHARTS AND TABLES Heavenly bodies Learn how the movements of the planets infl uence our lives. 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Their best-selling guide, Parker’s Astrology, fi rst published by DK in 1991 and substantially expanded in 2001, has sold many millions of copies worldwide. Based in Sydney, Australia, the Parkers lecture around the world and frequently appear on British, American, and Australian television and radio. They have also recorded a series of 12 astrological videos. ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTOR Astrologer Chester Kemp has calculated and devised the astrological tables in this book. Discover more at www.dk.com Signs of the Zodiac I S B N 978-0-7566-3156-7 9 7 8 0 7 5 6 6 3 1 5 6 7 5 2 5 0 0 Draw your own birth chart All the techniques for drawing up and interpreting birth charts, with planetary positions for every month from 1931 to 2010. and interpreting birth charts, with planetary positions for every month every month Printed in China Astrology ED502_Astrology_US_JKT.indd 1 22/5/07 5:21:05 pm Astrology Julia & Derek parker eyewitness companions [...]... growth of astrology outside so that it was possible to develop the whole system of astrology and elaborate Babylonia and Assyria took very different paths Persian interest in the it From Babylonia the study of the planets was quite separate from heavens spread to Greece, where mathematicians developed it still Western astrology, for example, and further By the 1st century ce it had Islamic astrology. .. its If in Greece astrology remained low-key, in most modern translation Imperial Rome it moved It still has its value today, and no one with a serious right into the sunlight, soon Ptolemy provides us with the interest in astrology to become a major factor in major Classical texts of both astronomy and astrology should neglect to read it the government of the state 22 the history of astrology Imperial... argued wanted to assuage the that astrology is fears of laymen when the ridiculous because a cow Church authorities and a human baby born St Augustine fervently argued against astrology condemned astrology at the same instant do not have precisely the A time of persecution same life, he simply displayed his own It was in 358ce that major persecution ignorance of what astrology claimed, proportionately... and Court Astrology For many centuries, the study of their medical knowledge Both medicine was inextricably linked with amateur and professional doctors often the study of astrology Indeed as late as remained with the sick, rather than the 18th century, it was still impossible attempting to flee the contagion to qualify as a doctor unless one had medical astrology passed an examination in astrology, ... the history of astrology Ancient EGYPT & classical GREEce Ancient Egypt is sometimes credited with being the This ceramic calendar from Egypt has Greek mother of astrology While the culture did look symbols of the zodiac obsessively to the heavens, and so opened the door to around its edge the study of the planets, it is the texts of Ptolemy and Valens of  Antioch that hold the keys to astrology, and... he claims that the human mind is as The break away from astrology was competent to cope with astrology as neither abrupt nor complete The fact with the mapping of the heavens and that astrology grew somewhat faded the prediction of the planets’ courses during the first 1,000 years after the 28 the history of astrology birth of Christ was not so much the result of the antagonism of the Christian Church... movements of the stars constrain human forces in an indissoluble chain of causes”, but fails to show how this actually works Astrology beyond western europe At the same time, astrology was flourishing elsewhere By 200ce textbooks in Sanskrit were circulating in India, explaining an astrology very different to that in the West It had five elements instead of four, for instance, and great importance was...10 astrology introduction observation and experiment”, the term Astrology s place in the world is not entirely clear: is it a form of scientific is accurately descriptive of astrology study, or a belief system more akin to No statement a modern astrologer a religion or philosophy? It is certainly... century, astrologers were turned to as a source of explanation for the plague that was then sweeping through Asia and Europe, killing millions 32 the history of astrology Astrology Adelard was and the enthusiastic about church the  importance of astrology in the study William of Conches’ of medicine, and was voice was a lonely one, sure that this made for however During the better doctors than 12th century,... – the degree of the astrological system of his own, and ecliptic rising over the eastern horizon among the Hermetic texts were a book at any particular time – an important on medical astrology, another on the matter in astrology The tomb of decans, one on zodiacal plants, and one Rameses V (1150–1145bce) contained on the astrological degrees similar evidence of scholarship of the astrological man planets; . every month every month Printed in China Astrology ED502 _Astrology_ US_JKT.indd 1 22/5/07 5:21:05 pm Astrology Julia & Derek parker eyewitness companions