They applied myths, based on earlier Sumerian beliefs to these constellations ... aversion to math, tropical astrology became the predominant system in the Western world. Sidereal meanwhile ...

The practice of astrology first originated in ancient Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C. In the city of Babylon, the stars and planets were used to interpret omens from the gods,” says U ...

One of the great contributions of the Sumerians was astronomy, although what they used it for was much closer to what we would consider astrology. Most of the Indo-European peoples believed the ...

And so astrology is thousands, and thousands, and thousands of years old. It starts in ancient Mesopotamia. It travels through Egypt. It travels through the Roman Empire. This is just western ...