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Thank you. Why did ancient people look up at the skies and try to make sense of it..they created charts and tried to figure out their paths. A lot of astrologi

Thank you. Why did ancient people look up at the skies and try to make sense of it..they created charts and tried to figure out their paths. A lot of astrological concepts are certainly archetypes but if you strip all that down, at the core is an attempt to understand the traffic patterns of celestial bodies and it’s impact on us. I do see the impact of weather and climate and lunar cycles in my farm and plant growth cycles. One cannot work the soil and in nature and deny that there is some kind of thread that connects earth and the skies. Someone long time ago suggested that it affects human behaviors and motivations. Romantically I can say that we are made of water and stardust and hence of course, they affect us..but surely it can also be conveyed mathematically? That’s what I want to learn about..I am no mathematician..and that’s why any tools or thought process or module I can adopt to make sense of it will be enormously helpful to my learning.

NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Quite. Can't really help you on how to analyse a pattern from it. First figure out how to represent what's in all those assorted books without bringing your own skew or bias in how you're assembling it. I'm stone cold on modern astrology, I suspect it more likely the season you were born and spent first three months (i.e. freezing cold or nice and warm) influences more than Mars or Libra. At the same time there was a lot of awareness of science and medicine far further back than you might think, often buried or silenced behind religious policy or dogma, and it was a rather different beast back then. It wasn't specific predictions until much later (well at least how I understand fromt he histories I;ve read). Seasonal patterns and growth cycles have been known since, well, Stonehenge -- hopefully those aren't too controversial too. :) I see the question has been flagged. Perhaps it might be better to think of how to ask the analysis question generically enough to get past the HN "woo mumbo jumbo" reaction, like "how do I analyse patterns in a vague data set from multiple, potentially contradicting ancient texts" or some such. or s/astrology/astronomy/ and resubmit. :)

NeedMoreTea 7y ago

Quite. Can't really help you on how to analyse a pattern from it. First figure out how to represent what's in all those assorted books without bringing your own skew or bias in how you're assembling it. I'm stone cold on modern astrology, I suspect it more likely the season you were born and spent first three months (i.e. freezing cold or nice and warm) influences more than Mars or Libra. At the same time there was a lot of awareness of science and medicine far further back than you might think, often buried or silenced behind religious policy or dogma, and it was a rather different beast back then. It wasn't specific predictions until much later (well at least how I understand fromt he histories I;ve read). Seasonal patterns and growth cycles have been known since, well, Stonehenge -- hopefully those aren't too controversial too. :) I see the question has been flagged. Perhaps it might be better to think of how to ask the analysis question generically enough to get past the HN "woo mumbo jumbo" reaction, like "how do I analyse patterns in a vague data set from multiple, potentially contradicting ancient texts" or some such. or s/astrology/astronomy/ and resubmit. :)