ABSTRACT
Astrology is the study of the relationships between the heavens and the earth, between man and the planets, and as such is one of the oldest studies known, having played an important role in every highly developed civilization of the past from Egypt and Babylonia to India, China and South America. Astrological study of the heavens eventually led to the emergence of the scientific discipline of astronomy, and the rules, methods and principles of astrology have emerged over thousands of years of usage. The popular newspaper-column astrology presents only a rather crude parody of the science; scientific astrology is a mathematically precise technology, involving detailed analysis of astronomical data which is in every individual case unique. The basic premise upon which astrology is founded is that the universe is not a fragmented collection of individual pieces, but a unified, organic whole, in which every part is dependent upon and in some way connected with every other part.
