Do you know who started zodiac signs, horoscopes and numerology?

Question

Do you think someone or a group of people just made all this up based on nothing but what was in their heads?Why did people start believing in these things? Did they get these ideas from spirits? I don't see where else they could have come from..unless the outer limits helped them. Did they say that "the gods" told them? How did it all begin?

Answer 1

The first answerer is partially right.

In reality there are 13 constellations along the zodiac line, and they are far from being evenly spaced out. Each zodiac sign lasts anywhere from 3 days to 2 months.

Stars and fortune telling have gone hand in hand for as far back as anyone can tell with a number of ancient cultures.

Modern day zodiac is has been revamped to a very inaccurate representation of the stars, for the average person who knows nothing about astronomy. Its much easier to have all the zodiac signs even spaced out and somewhat in line with our current Gregorian Calandar. Of course reality is, modern astrologers do not care what is really happening in the stars, which is a good indicator that they don't really believe astrology works. This is probably a good indicator, if even the astrologers don't believe in it, that its really just a bunch of bunk.

Answer 2

The Sumerians and Babylonians.

Answer 3

Satan started zodiac signs/horoscopes/numerology and people who don't know God or choose to disobey God, practice these things.

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Answer 4

some malaka

Answer 5

Ancient Egyptians, Druids and the Mayans were the first to study the constellations to create the zodiacal signs and Numerology was first invented by Pythagoras - and later other people started developing it more into what you see/read today.

These people lived within the harmonies of nature and had all their lives to study the constellations, to meditate on their meanings and to create calculations - why disbelieve xcoyotezin answer when she is 100% correct.

Answer 6

Here's a pretty good link.It seems astrology developed independently in different parts of the world.What's interesting to me.Different people looking at the same sky described and interpreted things so differently.

Answer 7

Zodiac denotes an annual cycle of twelve stations along the ecliptic, the apparent path of the sun across the heavens through the constellations that divide the ecliptic into twelve equal zones of celestial longitude. The zodiac is the first known celestial coordinate system. There are two apparently independently-created zodiacs. Babylonian astrology, inherited by Hellenistic and Indian astrology, developed the zodiac of twelve signs familiar in the West. In Chinese astrology, months and years pass through a cycle of twelve animals that imply certain fortunes or misfortunes related to events occurring within those periods. The Chinese zodiac is not linked to constellations.

The etymology of the term zodiac comes from the Latin zōdiacus, from the Greek ζῳδιακός [κύκλος], meaning "[circle] of animals", derived from ζῴδιον, the diminutive of ζῷον "animal". However, the classical Greek zodiac also includes signs (also constellations) that are not represented by animals (e.g., Libra, Virgo, Gemini). Another suggested etymology is that the Greek term is cognate with the Sanskrit sodi, denoting "a path", i.e., the path through which the Sun travels.

The zodiac also means a region of the celestial sphere that includes a band of eight arc degrees above and below the ecliptic, and therefore encompasses the paths of the Moon and the naked eye planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn). The classical astronomers called these planets wandering stars to differentiate them from the fixed stars of the celestial sphere (Ptolemy). Astrologers understood the movement of the planets and the Sun through the zodiac as a means of explaining and predicting events on Earth

Zodiac in astrology

Astrologers use astronomical observations of the movements of the night sky for divinatory purposes. The zodiac remains in use in modern astrology, though the issue of tropical astrology (used mainly by Western astrologers) and sidereal astrology (used mainly by Indian astrologers) is central. At issue in the debate is whether the signs should be defined in terms of zones derived from nodal points defined by Earth's motion during a tropical year , or whether the signs should be defined in terms of signs roughly aligned with the constellations of the same name (for sidereal astrologers). This matters because of an astronomical phenomenon called the precession of the equinoxes, whereby the position of the stars in sky has changed over time. Therefore, over the centuries the twelve zodiacal signs in Western astrology no longer correspond to the same part of the sky as their original constellations, or their Indian counterparts. In effect, in Western astrology the link between sign and constellation has been broken, whereas in Indian astrology it remains of paramount importance

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