Where Does the Science of the Stars Come From?

 Astrology, like any other human activity, has its roots right from the very beginnings of human existence on the planet we call Earth. The problem is that in most cases we lack material evidence that could prove the broken epochs of history reaching even deeper into the past.

Sometimes there are only stories, myths, and legends that can fill in the missing link.

However, the problem with today’s science is that it relies exclusively on tangible evidence.

Another, less highlighted but equally important problem is the egocentrism of the West — the tendency to ignore or downplay the achievements of earlier epochs and civilizations, starting from the golden age of Islam and going further back. This alone could fill an entire book, and it can be seen clearly with nothing more than common-sense thinking and without much research or proof.

That is why, in this text, we will explore the beginnings of astrology/astronomy using imagination, assumptions, and ideas that step outside the framework of official science. Some of these ideas you may never read or hear anywhere else. They are simply my views that seem to me to complete the picture of how astrology came into being and provide a broader framework — not only for astrology, but for the history of humanity in general.

One of the most absurd ideas that long held roots in collective understanding is that we are the only intelligent beings in the entire boundless Universe. Over time, that idea was reinforced by the arrival of rationalism, which demands material, tangible evidence for everything.

But let us look for a moment at Nature. Mother Nature shows us on her own example how economical she is when it comes to using energy — even in evolution she does not eliminate abandoned experiments (such as algae that breathe sulfur instead of oxygen, or certain invertebrates that use copper instead of iron in their blood and therefore have blue blood), but leaves them as lessons and signposts along the long path of evolutionary development.

By the same logic, Mother Nature or the Creator would certainly not waste energy creating an infinite Universe with all its wonders just to produce humanity as the only intelligent species on the edge of one of countless galaxies.

The same kind of resource waste would be creating planet Earth over 4.5 billion unimaginable years only for the first civilizations to appear in the last 5,000 years.

These ideas are actually the product of Western egocentrism — civilizational projections onto the image of the Universe, similar to how we once believed that the Sun and the entire cosmos revolved around the Earth.

Although we overcame that idea long ago — amid much resistance, and unfortunately also victims — and although that idea was abandoned long ago, the egocentrism of the West still persists and leaves traces where we pay the least attention.

In ancient times, in the distant civilizations, astrology was a complete science of the stars that united what we today call astronomy, astrology, and mathematics. There was no difference between observing the stars, their movements, and interpreting what those celestial movements brought to Earth and to the people who were completely dependent on nature.

In those times, man did not see himself as separate from nature and the environment in which he lived. Such a way of thinking is almost unknown to modern man — we are filled with the collective belief in the superiority of the rational over the intuitive and holistic, the fragmented approach by which we try to understand reality down to the smallest factors, without the possibility of seeing it as a whole.

In that sense, that unified science of the stars was part of the everyday life and culture of ancient civilizations, many of which interpreted their own origins as coming from other stellar systems.

In our exploration of where the knowledge of the stars and planets comes from, we will look into the world of myths and legends to gain a broader picture and understand not only astrology, but also the history of humanity in a much wider framework — a framework that can explain the missing parts and give answers that without those stories we could not obtain.

In the upcoming installments, exciting stories await us about Atlantis, Neolithic cultures, and the people whose achievements earned them to be identified with astrology — the Chaldeans and their land of Chaldea.

Open yourself to incredible ideas and allow yourself new perspectives and visions that will help you better understand the world and the society in which we live.