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One who studies or practices astrology.
Examples of astrologers in a Sentence
His court at Iannina was the centre of a sort of barbarous culture, in which astrologers, alchemists and Greek poets played their part, and was often visited by travellers.
A favourite topic of the astrologers of all countries has been the immediate end of the world.
Galba was far advanced in years, and Otho, encouraged by the predictions of astrologers, aspired to succeed him.
A swarm of astrologers and physicians preyed upon his fears - and his purse.
In Daniel, the term "Chaldaeans" is very commonly employed with the meaning "astrologers, astronomers," which sense also appears in the classical authors, notably in Herodotus, Strabo and Diodorus.
But for the master's graver researches and projects he cared little, and was far more interested in the dreams of astrologers and alchemists.
Astrology was further developed by the Arabs from the 7th to the 13th century, and in the Europe of the 14th and 15th centuries astrologers were dominating influences at court.
Not content with this, we find the late Egyptian astrologers setting up a correspondence between the thirty-six decani recognized by them and the human body, which is thus divided into thirty-six parts; to each part a god was assigned as a controlling force.
The influence of the Medici made astrologers popular in France.
Those were indeed strange times, according to modern ideas, when astrologers were dominant by the terror they inspired, and sometimes by the martydom they endured when their predictions were either too true or too false.
But, as a general rule, medieval and Renaissance astrologers did not give themselves the trouble of reading the stars, but contented themselves with telling fortunes by faces.
A few salient facts may be added concerning the astrologers and their predictions, remarkable either for their fulfilment or for the ruin and confusion they brought upon their authors.
Francis Bacon abuses the astrologers of his day no less than the alchemists, but he does so because he has visions of a reformed astrology and a reformed alchemy.
Sir Thomas Browne, too, while he denies the capacity of the astrologers of his day, does not venture to dispute the reality of the science.
In the Autobiography of Jahangir it is stated that the guru was imprisoned in the fortress of Gwalior, with a view to the realization of the fine imposed on his father Guru Arjan, but the Sikhs believe that the guru became a voluntary inmate of the fortress with the object of obtaining seclusion there to pray for the emperor who had been advised to that effect by his Hindu astrologers.
He was a great admirer of Galen; and in his writings he protests emphatically against quackery and the superstitious remedies of the astrologers.
About this time, too (November 1707), he produced his best narrative poem, Baucis and Philemon, while the next few months witnessed one of the most amusing hoaxes ever perpetrated against the quackery of astrologers.
The system was carried to such a degree of perfection that later ages made but few additions of an essential character to the genethliology or drawing up of the individual horoscope by the Greek astrologers.
As early as 1186 the earth had escaped one threatened cataclysm of the astrologers.
To recover the city was a matter of prime importance, and in 1247 Frederick concentrated his forces round it, building over against it a wooden town which, in anticipation of the success that astrologers had predicted, he named Vittoria.
The ' secret mutual connivance ' is not an idea that either astrologers or Jung the scientist finds easy to see or illumine.
Early astrologers recognized only one constellation of ' the Dog ', that which we call Canis Major today.
So astrologers are not inclined to do anything hasty.
How astrologers combine psychic intuition and science to guess the lottery numbers?
Back to Top 300 According to some medieval astrologers, Saturn and the moon in conjunction caused leprosy.
These same astrologers held that comets and other portents in the heavens were fleeting appearances of the sublunary sphere.
Now many astrologers seem to have a hankering, a hunger even, for scientific respectability that never fails to amaze me.
In this connection the number seven became especially sacred with them, and ever preserved its importance with the astrologers.
Well its quite undeniable that this thread is a debate just among astrologers and serious students.
Even in modern times travellers relate how, when an auspicious day has been proclaimed by the astrologers, the streets of Bagdad may be seen running with blood from the barbers' shops.
Astrologers believe that Aquarians are sympathetic and generous, thoughtful and born leaders.
Many astrologers also believe that they find it hard to make commitments.
Many astrologers also believe that they are blessed with above-average physical strength.
The Chinese birth or conception chart is based on information discovered by Chinese astrologers while studying the phases of the moon.
Ancient Chinese astrologers decided to take on this issue and spent a great deal of time studying the phases of the moon and correlating what they learned to a woman's age and the resulting gender of her children.
Chinese astrologers believe that everything, including humans, have a relationship with these five elements.
What's great about Penny Thornton (and, of course, other astrologers as well) is that she takes your horoscope and puts it into context with the overall sky pattern.
Some astrologers believe that this represents the scorpion tail ready to strike.
Astrologers usually refer to this sky phenomenon as a "family of eclipses".
Unlike western astrology that uses the solar year calendar, most Chinese astrologers use a lunar calendar and base their calculations solely on the moon's cycles.
Some modern Chinese astrologers have begun using the solar calendar.
Whichever system is used, either lunar or solar, all of the Chinese astrologers adhere to the five element theory to assist in creating astrological charts.
Some astrologers cite 2009 as the tenth year while others argue it's the twentieth-year in that sixty-year cycle.
Astrologers of the time began to mark certain reactions of people (such as war) to the positions of the planets at the time of the event.
However, some Chinese astrologers began to incorporate solar astrology in the early 1900s for a unique combination of astrological divination.
This is the house that governs the unconscious, the land of dreams, and according to some astrologers, karma.
Most astrologers understand that the sun signs are the leading influence on star sign compatibility ratings when no accurate birth time is available.
As astrologers and astonomers charted the movement of the earth in a elliptical pattern around the sun, they saw both mathematical patterns (longitude and latitude), and visible evidence of seasonal nature.
Most astrologers have not adopted the idea that there is one individual who flawlessly complements another.
The Mayans were mathematicians, great scholars, accomplished astronomers and astrologers.