ASTROLOGY

is the pseudo-science that | Act of sere to foretell events, sp Saad asylum: the destiny of men, by means of the pos i- | of imbe tion of the + eaters a re — a were regarded as the agents whereby the | with “. Creator regulated the course of events in | the stre the world. ‘The more ignorant considered | 3 servic the stars themselves as the moving causes. | points. By means of great circles, astrologers} ATA out space into twelve La ep Peru. called ** houses.” The principal | Spaniar circles were the horizon and the meridian, | on the) The other four were drawn caer distant | to his st from these, and pa ed through their | and str points of intersection. The circles were | 1533. considered immovable, so that all the) AT’A heavenly bodies pa ed through the twelve | dency | houses om, Owego hours. Certain | animals powers and influences wero ascribed to the | charact: = moon, and planets, but these were | subject: Z by the particular house occupied | of Anix by the body at the moment. In “‘ casting | tion.” & person’s nativity ” the astrologer found paired | peeuce of the various heavenly bodies | silky he at the moment of birth, and then, a um- | the offs Ing that he knew the power inherent in| red ma and the influence derived from its | progenit he forctold the course of that| [s. 56]