Astrology is a pseudoscience that purports to be able to discern knowledge about human affairs and earth occurrences via the study of celestial object motions and relative locations. Astrology has origins in calendrical systems used to anticipate seasonal shifts and interpret astronomical cycles as indications of divine messages, dating back to at least the 2nd millennium BCE. [5] Many civilizations have valued astronomical events, and some have created sophisticated systems for forecasting terrestrial occurrences based on celestial observations, such as the Hindus, Chinese, and Maya.One of the oldest astrological systems currently in use, Western astrology, may be traced back to Mesopotamia in the 19th–17th centuries BCE, from where it moved to Ancient Greece, Rome, the Arab world, and finally Central and Western Europe. The majority of professional astrologers depend on horoscope systems that promise to explain elements of a person’s personality and forecast key events in their life based on the placements of celestial objects in contemporary Western astrology.
For the most of its history, astrology was regarded as a scholarly tradition and was widely practiced in academic circles, frequently in conjunction with astronomy, alchemy, meteorology, and medicine.
It was cited in numerous works of literature, from Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer to William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Calderón de la Barca, and it was present in political circles. Following the widespread adoption of the scientific method at the end of the nineteenth century, researchers have effectively attacked astrology on both theoretical and experimental grounds, demonstrating that it lacks scientific validity and explanatory power.As a result, astrology lost its academic and theoretical standing, and public belief in it dwindled until a resurgence in the 1960s.