Title: Ancient Peoples and Astrology – The Lost Connection with the Cosmos

Ancient peoples possessed not only advanced culture and technology that remains a great mystery to us today, but also a profound sense of wholeness with nature. This partly stemmed from the physical feeling that nature was a superior force, and partly because such a view was deeply embedded in the very foundations of their understanding of the world they lived in.

It may seem normal and self-evident. Yet no matter how hard modern people try to recapture that feeling, we are nowhere near what ancient peoples felt toward nature and the world they inhabited.

At the foundations of Western civilization are two very dangerous ideas:

First – that man is the master of nature and that nature exists to be exploited by man.

Second – that man is the pinnacle of evolution and the most intelligent being on Earth.

On such foundations there is no room for respect toward nature and the world we live in, nor does a person from such a civilization feel that they are part of nature and that it is the superior force to be respected.

Unlike us, ancient peoples — Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Chaldeans, and all those unknown peoples before them — had a clear and focused gaze toward the stars. These peoples were not only oriented toward the stars but also felt a deep connection with them.

Some of these peoples even said they originated from stellar systems. For them, the science of the stars was neither marginal, suspicious, nor in any way pseudo — it was a valued and respected activity of people in those times. It was a way of life with completely different foundations and differing in many ways from today’s understanding of life and humanity’s role in the world.

Thanks to their achievements in exploring and tracking the movements of the stars, the peoples who followed inherited an already vast and detailed body of knowledge — what we would today call a database.

In this post I want to highlight the fact that much of the knowledge of ancient peoples has been forgotten, suppressed, and often ridiculed.

This is not about some conspiracy theory or strange stories. It is about our invisible walls — built from bricks of convictions, attitudes, and beliefs, whose foundations are collective convictions, beliefs, fears, and prejudices that shape our personal views in an invisible, unnoticed, and unconscious way. One of those convictions is that ancient peoples were primitive.

Despite their traces in temples, structures, and other remnants that still amaze us today, we modern people perceive them as primitive or, at best, of lower rank compared to us.

We view their culture and everything they did and believed in the same way — practicing astrology is seen as superstition, and polytheistic culture is automatically labeled backward, because the collective narrative of the West claims that belief in one God is a more advanced stage of societal development. This attitude is present even in Western societies that are not explicitly religious.

Such a mindset automatically places everything else in the category of less developed societies.

However, this view hides the true picture of peoples who lived in the region of Mesopotamia and their highly developed culture, which left us in inheritance the sexagesimal number system — which is why we count minutes and seconds to sixty, and divide hours into twelve (1/5 of 60).

Because of this attitude, we struggle to understand why all temples and other sacred structures of those cultures were almost always built in the north-south direction, and some even aligned with certain stellar systems.

Those temples were not just homes of gods — they were also observatories, cosmic clocks that precisely marked the spring equinox or summer solstice in the exact day and hour, and in their secret way incorporated the movement of the Earth’s rotational axis, which we today call precession.

This tells us that engaging in observing the stars and predicting events based on their movements was not some ordinary activity based on superstition. It was a special, sacred activity that clearly took place in temples — and not only in them.

Here I want to show at least small cracks in our invisible wall of convictions and views on life — so we can see a different picture not only of astrology (which is only one tool for knowing ourselves and our inner world), but also of the outer world, which is always a reflection of what we live within ourselves and which we can change only by changing our inner world.

In upcoming posts we will meet some of the greatest achievements of ancient peoples that have been preserved to this day — and which unlock the door to a new and broader perspective and most important to remind us to the lost cosmic connection.