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

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. :)