Further notable points of change occurred with the Renaissance period, the invention of the telescope, and the discovery of the outer planets of our solar system. Notably, the 5 th century BCE saw the significant branching of astrology and mathematical astronomy up until this time, the two basically coexisted together. Western astrology’s trajectory has continued through its evolutionary periods of branching, diminishing, and flourishing (not all in that order) until now. We don’t know for certain when or how these traditions merged due to the lack of surviving sources or their full clarity, but we can surmise that sometime in the 1st century BCE, Egyptian and Babylonian astrology came together, and then a new framework of Hellenistic (or Greek) astrology emerged more distinctly from the 3rd century BCE through the 7th century CE. It even goes further back in time into ancient Mesopotamia around 4000 years ago 1. Topical or Western Astrology is born out of the traditions of the Babylonian period (2000 – 1600 BCE) and from Egypt. The Origins of Western (Tropical) Astrology
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