Natal astrology

The Geburtshoroskopie or Genethlialogie is the part of the field of astrology, which makes statements about its character and destiny because of the star constellation at the time of birth of a person. Except in western astrology it is also common in Indian ( Jyotisha ) and in Chinese astrology.

The western Genethlialogie has its origin in Babylonia, where a birth chart was found in the year 410 BC as the oldest document. These early Horoscopes consisted of information on the position of the planets (which in astrology also sun and moon belong ) in the zodiac, partly supplemented by very simple interpretations such as " his days will be many ." A greater importance was the Genethlialogie then in ancient Greece. In contrast to the Babylonian astrology, stood in the center of which the king, won in Greece, promoted mainly by the Socratic, Platonic and Stoic philosophy, the individuality of each human being in importance, and birth charts could be created for any person. A comprehensive and authoritative in Europe for a long time compendium of ancient Geburtshoroskopie is the Tetrabiblos of Claudius Ptolemy created in the 2nd century AD.

The planets have been around for a long time in Babylonia similar meanings ascribed as yet in today's astrology. So was about Mars as a representative of the god of war, Nergal, and Saturn stood for stability and order. Major innovations in the Greco -Roman antiquity related to the characterization of the zodiac due to the Aristotelian four- element theory and the introduction of aspects, that is, the angular relationships of the planets, as an interpretation elements.