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Astrology, Astrology is a science which claims to foretell the future or make predictions by studying the supposed influence of the relative positions of the moon, sun, planets and other stars on human affairs. It, requires study of celestial bodies, of their positions, magnitudes, motions and distances, etc. Astronomy is a pure science. It was studied as a subject in ancient India and India has produced great astronomers, long before anyone in the Western world studied it as a subject. Since Astrology is partly based upon study of movement of sun, earth, planets and other celestial bodies, it is a study of science at least to some extent, P.M. Bhargava v. U.G.C., (2004) 6 SCC 661 (669): AIR 2004 SC 3478. See also Vedic Astrology.Astrology is either a science or a pseudo-science the forecasting of earthly and human events by means of observing and interpreting the fixed stars, the sun, the moon and the planets has exerted a sometimes extensive and a sometimes peripheral inference in ma...
Domify
To divide as the heavens into twelve houses See House in astrological sense...
Genethliac
Pertaining to nativities calculated by astrologers showing position of stars at ones birth...
Genethlialogy
Divination as to the destinies of one newly born the act or art of casting nativities astrology...
graphology
The art of judging of a persons character disposition and aptitude from his handwriting called graphoanalysis by its practitioners Though its practitioners consider it a science it is widely considered a pseudoscience as is astrology...
Horoscope
The representation made of the aspect of the heavens at the moment of a persons birth by which the astrologer professed to foretell the events of the persons life especially the sign of the zodiac rising above the horizon at such a moment...
Horoscoper
One versed in horoscopy an astrologer...
Paracelsus
Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus originally Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim also called Theophrastus Paracelsus and Theophrastus von Hohenheim Born at Maria Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz Switzerland Dec 17 or 10 Nov 1493 died at Salzburg Sept 23 or 24 1541 A celebrated German Swiss physician reformer of therapeutics iatrochemist and alchemist He attended school in a small lead mining district where his father William Bombast von Hohenheim was a physician and teacher of alchemy The family originally came from Wuumlrtemberg where the noble family of Bombastus was in possession of the ancestral castle of Hohenheim near Stuttgart until 1409 He entered the University of Basel at the age of sixteen where he adopted the name Paracelsus after Celsius a noted Roman physician But he left without a degree first going to Wurtzburg to study under Joannes Trithemius Abbot of Sponheim 1462 1516 a famous astrologer and alchemist who initiated him into the mysteries of alchemy He then spent many...
Pentacle
A five pointed star also called a pentagram or pentalpha See illustr under pentalpha Sometimes referring to a similar figure such as the figure composed of two equilateral triangles intersecting so as to form a six pointed star It was used in early ornamental art and also with superstitious import by the astrologers and mystics of the Middle Ages The six pointed star is more comonly called a hexagram or called Solomons seal it resembles the star of David Magen David...
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