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Real astronomy and dated history, with sources. Documented traditions and folklore. Modern lunar astrology · symbolic, not predictive.

Traditions · Intermediate

Hellenistic astrology

The horoscopic astrology of the Greek-speaking Mediterranean, from about the second century BCE to the sixth CE.

It joined Babylonian astral omens with Greek geometry and Egyptian decans. Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, Dorotheus and Vettius Valens are its main surviving texts. It used Whole Sign houses, sect and lots.

  • Kind: Tradition, History
  • Tradition: Hellenistic astrology
  • In this site’s birth chart: not used

Related: Traditional astrology, Whole Sign houses, Lots, Sect

Written for Cool Moon Facts in its own words. An astrology source documents what astrologers believe or practise; it does not establish that astrology works.

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