Traditional astrology

Greek interest in astrology began in the Hellenistic period as Alexander the Great`s conquests exposed Greek thinkers to the Mesopotamian culture. Hellenistic Alexandria was the center of astrology and the Hermetic texts that originated there incorporated astrology into their religious system. The astrology which had been practiced in the Roman Empire was the creation of Greeks (1st -6th centuries AD). The most important astrological writer in the Roman Empire was the Greek astronomer and mathematician, Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century CE), author of the most influential ancient astrological book TETRABIBLOS.

Medieval astrology is the astrology practiced from 750 AD to the Renaissance (1500 AD), firstly by Arabs and Persians then later by astrologers of Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire (in the East)

When we speak of traditional astrology, we are referring to texts and it is to these sources of knowledge that we must turn: Nechepso Petrosis, Ptolemy – Tetrabiblos, Liber Hermetis , Vetius Valens, Dorotheus – Carmenun Astrologicum, Julius Firmicus, Antiochus, Masha`allah, Alkindi, Abu Ma`sahr, Abu Ali Al-Khayyat, Ibn Ezra, Guido Bonatti, Schoner, William Lilly, Jean Baptiste Morin, Placidus , Henry Coley, John Dee, John Gadbury .

When we read these texts we realize that the kind of astrology taught by the masters has almost nothing in common with the astrology practiced today. Many people are not even aware that you can use astrology to predict with great accuracy the length of life, diseases, what kind of profession you will have, and so on.
Psychological astrology, in particular, Jungian (Carl Jung), appeared in the late 19th century and beginning of the 20th century when the interest in psychological and spiritual development took astrology into a new era of psychological analysis.

The sun sign approach to astrology began to grow in popularity through newspaper columns in the first half of the 20th century and flourished when New Age went mainstream in the 1960s.