The Connection Between Astrology, Medicine and Astronomy

There was a time in astrology was an accepted science and was a part of medical diagnoses as much as the physical symptoms of the patient. It’s hard to say whether we are involved or are interested e-mail because we no longer think about living in harmony with the cosmos. We see ourselves as advanced scientifically to think that the movements of stars and planets can have a serious impact on our lives and our health.

But we are the same. Who is anyone to say that a man of his limited brain, can truly understand how the universe works, or how he with her. Western civilization is the first non-captured to understand. But it was not always so.

Astrology is one of the most important historical context of astronomy developed. The Babylonians carefully assembled tables in the position of Venus, as it meant the omens for weather, war, hunger, diseases, rulers and kingdoms, are to display. Claudius Ptolemy composed Tetrabiblos to believe that astrology can be placed on a rational basis, despite an art guess, like a drug. In practice was the belief in astrology horoscopes means that are cast in favor of children, spouses and political enemies, public buildings and kept open marriages and other auspicious day. Numerous records of astrological practice in Roman times and physicians regularly consulted astrological charts as part of the diagnostic process.

For example, each constellation, that the rule as part of the body: the Sagittarius ruled the thighs, Pisces the feet, and so on. When the moon in the zodiac ruling a particular part of the body should avoid bleeding in this section because the attraction of the moon can cause excessive bleeding. Numerous medical manuscripts and almanacs, the figure of the man of the Zodiac “as a reminder of the specific influence of the Sun also varies the strength of the attraction of the phases of the moon, and thus almanacs usually showed the phases of the Sun