The revival of traditional forms of astrology that began in the western world in the 1980s took two main forms. Each of these styles has its distinctive traits, but they are united by their common goal of relating the horoscope to the everyday objective world with its tangible distinctions and contrasts, rather than to psychology alone. This mainstream forms a continuum that includes Hellenistic, Indian, Perso-Arabic, and medieval and early modern European astrology. That modern strand differs in many important ways, both technical and philosophical, from the mainstream of astrological tradition. Other forms of divination that are sometimes called astrology – for example, Chinese or Mayan astrology – are separate systems in their own right and not discussed here.īy traditional, I mean any form of horoscopic astrology except the modern western kind that was conceived in a Theosophical setting in the late 19th century and then heavily influenced by depth psychology (mostly of the Jungian variety) during the 20th. What is traditional astrology? The word astrology is used in these pages to mean horoscopic astrology, that is, the kind that includes the ascendant and other celestial houses, in addition to the twelve-sign zodiac, the seven visible planets, and their aspect configurations.
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