Throughout history, it is proved that horoscopes have been used for many cultures as prediction or guessing methods, as by kings and rulers as people in general. For that reason a huge number of kinds or styles of this guessing procedure has arisen that nowadays it is part of astrology and that has unleashed different tendencies of horoscopes in the world.
If we search the concept of horoscope, we will find that it refers to the prediction and interpretation of a person’s future, according to the arbitrary or relative position of the planets of the solar system, at the moment of his birth. And if we want to know about the origin of the word, it is said that comes from Greek: “Wpa”, that means hour and “skopeo”, examine; that is, “I look at the hour”, a reference to the importance that the birth hour has to calculate an astral chart.
Greek-Latin culture starts giving horoscopes the nature that brings them closer to the present days; but much earlier, in Babylon, with the Persian reign, the horoscopic astronomy was born; and if we go further back, since ancient times, a lot more, even, marks and signs on stones, sticks and bones have been found in which the superior Paleolithic man, kept a record of celestial phases. But it was not until the VIII century B.C. when the division zodiac signs appears.
On the other hand, there is a Mesopotamic board that shows in a determining way the constellations of the Moon’s road and that specifies 17 groups of celestial bodies that would be the forerunners of the zodiac signs; but after three long centuries of doubts and hesitations, when 11 signs were already admitted, in the 400 B.C. it is established, at last, the horoscope with 12 signs, being Libra the last one to arrive.
However, the figures that constitute the celestial bodies are visual associations that match astrology, but not the astronomical characteristics, and these figures started to vary, according to the interpretation of every culture and the influence of the different religions, replacing the symbols with closer and more representative elements of every people, making them different in the number and the division of the signs. In this way, the world horoscopes came up.
So, we got to the long list of world horoscopes and that nowadays are consulted as much in the West as in the East. In this opportunity we will only give their names for you to have the curiosity to investigate and choose the one you like the most or the most convenient for you. Let us start, then with: The West horoscope, the Aztec one, the Chinese one, the Celtic one, the Arabian one, the Alchemist one, the Druid one, the Indian one, the Mayan one, the Orisha one, the Wuykû one, the Hindu one, the Gipsy one, and the Egyptian one.
The important thing, it is very clear, that even having certain differences about images that include animals, trees, ancient arms, deities, daily life objects, etc. all of them can or tend to predictions, characteristics, abilities, people’s likes that are ruled by each above signs.
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