The interest of man in the sky is rolled up in three different stories- astronomy, astrology origin and the calendar. Soon after 3000 BC, astronomical observations were made in the Mesopotamian civilizations, and the Babylonians of Mesopotamia are regarded as the first great astronomers. The way the constellations moved, along with the sun and the planets, appeared to move in their passage through the heavens. This could divide the celestial time into equal segments, and twelve constellations were selected, identified by the names of the animals, to which, later, terms were provided by the Greeks as Zodiac. 

Exchange of Ideas:

The ideas that developed in one part of the world travelled across divergent regions of the world, and the silk roads were an integral driving force behind significant cultural exchange across different sections of the world. The integration of civilisations and the blending of ideas resulted in the sharing and development of various knowledge, and the creation of pluralistic scientific studies, that brought out revolutionising fields of study like medicine, mathematics, geography, astronomy, and astrology origin. Astrology is about the predictive information regarding the sky. The Greeks made excellent and significant advances in the respective fields of astronomy and astrology. In astronomy, the analytical insights gave birth to brilliant ideas, as well as to the Ptolemaic system (which was later dismissed as false). Having drawn a connection with planets and constellations, there was a dramatic and very interesting flair attached. 

Starting of astrology origin?

The practice of observing celestial bodies, to understand human behaviour and predict events based on them, began as soon as humans began to follow astronomical cycles, some beginning around the 3rd millennium BCE. The popularity towards this field was so, that throughout history, much up until the 17th CE, it was taught as an academic subject in much of Eurasia. The inspiration was drawn to such an extent, that it was integrated, and applied to the other important fields of study including alchemy, political and cultural studies, and the traditional knowledge of medicines. 

Spread of Astrology

After astrology’s origin, different regions came up with their versions of their understanding of astronomy. In particular, the practice of ‘horoscopy’ was inculcated in Chinese traditions, where the predictions were made by astrologers on the basis of the position of the sun, at the time of the birth of an individual, or on the calendar significance of an event. This idea was derived from the Iranian plateau. Astrology acted as a medium of transmission, from Indo-Iranian sources, and was also inspired by close mathematical observations of the sun and the planet. Hellenistic ideas, like that of Dorotheus of Sidon, were the inspiring sources for different ideas for astrology origin. With Greek influence, the western nations introduced their conception of the zodiac. 

India astrology origin:

India developed its own system, knowledge and theory of astrology, dating as early as 1000 BC. Indian astrology was introduced into new regions of Central Asia, the Iranian Plateau, and China. Indian Islamic astrologers blended their interpretation of astrology, which was further spread to Middle Persians, and one of the pioneers of Indo-Iranian astrology is Abu Ma’shar. Abu al-Biruni, a famous polymath, provided the distinction between astronomy and astrology- while the former uses mathematical theories and calculation, while, the latter uses magical elements and their imaginations, and subjective interpretations to make a prediction; thereby criticising astrology for the lack of mathematical and scientific foundations. 

Astrology became part of Natural Philosophy, and despite the lack of a strong scientific foundation, it played an integral role in the development of science, along the silk road. Scholars have spent nights and so much considerable time, observing the night sky, the stars, and the planets, with so much focus on accuracy with the belief that the observed result will make the concluded prediction more reliable.