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by Kundan Jha kuldeepThis article is about the pseudoscience associated with celestial objects.
For other uses, see Astrology (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with astronomy, the scientific study of celestial
objects.
Astrology
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Astrology is a pseudoscience that claims to divine information about human
affairs and terrestrial events by studying the movements and relative positions
of celestial objects.[1][2][3][4] Astrology has been dated to at least the 2nd
millennium BCE, and has its roots in calendrical systems used to predict
seasonal shifts and to interpret celestial cycles as signs of divine
communications.[5] Many cultures have attached importance to astronomical
events, and some—such as the Hindus, Chinese, and the Maya—developed elaborate
systems for predicting terrestrial events from celestial observations. Western
astrology, one of the oldest astrological systems still in use, can trace its
roots to 19th–17th century BCE Mesopotamia, from where it spread to Ancient
Greece, Rome, the Arab world and eventually Central and Western Europe.
Contemporary Western astrology is often associated with systems of horoscopes
that purport to explain aspects of a person's personality and predict significant
events in their lives based on the positions of celestial objects; the majority
of professional astrologers rely on such systems.[6]:83
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Throughout most of its history, astrology was considered a scholarly tradition and was common in academic circles, often in close relation with astronomy, alchemy, meteorology, and medicine.[7] It was present in political circles and is mentioned in various works of literature, from Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer to William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Calderón de la Barca. Following the end of the 19th century and the wide-scale adoption of the scientific method, researchers have successfully challenged astrology on both theoretical[8]:249;[9] and experimental grounds,[10][11] and have shown it to have no scientific validity or explanatory power.[6] Astrology thus lost its academic and theoretical standing, and common belief in it has largely declined.[12] While polls have demonstrated that approximately one quarter of American, British, and Canadian people say they continue to believe that star- and planet-positions affect their lives,[13] astrology is now recognized as a pseudoscience[14][15] — a belief which its advocates incorrectly present as scientific.[4][16][17][18]
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