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Favorite topic of the astrologers August 29, 2008

Posted by egabriel in History of Astrology.
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I am a history buff and I like astrology, classical music and computers. I was always interested in the past astrological predictions that did not happen. Throughout history many astrologers made predictions about the future course of world events, and these are often remarkable either for their fulfillment or for the ruin and confusion they brought upon their authors.

So, the favorite topic of the astrologers of all countries has been the immediate end of the world. They announced it when the end of the first millennium was coming to the end, and thousands of people believed them and were ready for their last funeral rites. When this did not happen, as early as 1186 the Earth had escaped another one threatened cataclysm of the astrologers. Another astrologer named Stöffler predicted a universal deluge for the year 1524 – a year, as it turned out, distinguished … for drought. His aspect of the heavens told him that in that year three planets would meet in the aqueous sign of Pisces. Among those who believed was a prominent Frenchman Aurial from Toulouse who built himself a Noah’s ark!

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