Zodiac Signs And Purpose Of Astrology

Attention Getter: Everyone is curious about their futures, we always want to what is to come. We want to know about the person we will marry or what our strengths and weaknesses are. Everyone is longing to know what their future career will be or what kind of friends they might be drawn to. There is a way we can supposedly know all this information, we can learn about our futures through zodiac signs.
Relate to Audience: I’m sure most of you all know your own zodiac sign and might have tried reading your horoscope on snapchat or instagram.
Establish Credibility: To me, horoscopes are fun and entertaining to read every once and awhile and I even follow some horoscope accounts on social media.
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Preview the Body: Today, I’ll be going beyond basic horoscopes and jump into the history of zodiac signs and astrology. I’ll explain the original uses and purpose of astrology. Also, I will explain how they came to be as the horoscopes we read today.

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Humans have been interested in stars and constellations for as long as we’ve been on earth.
Stargazing was seen as a form of entertainment before we had TV, cell phones, or even books to read, but it is the Babylonians who are credited with the birth of astrology. Early on, they were following star patterns to predict seasons. Babylonian studies were eventually introduced to the Greeks around fourth century BCE. Astronomers such as Plato or Aristotle took the studies in as science. As it spread to other societies such as the Romans it was used mostly for prediction purposes. The predictions spread beyond weather forecasts and the constellations began to foresee natural disasters and
war. Furthermore, the word: “zodiac” derived from the Greek, but the Babylonians were the first to identify the twelve constellations. The twelve constellations are based on the earth’s yearly rotation around the sun. The Babylonians based the original “zodiac signs” on the five planets they knew at the time and the sun and moon. The Babylonians believed the planets all had special powers and specific associations. For example, they believed mars was affiliated with aggression and war.
To continue, I don’t know about you but I was confused about was how astrology started as weather forecasts and is currently a section is a weekly magazine saying things such as “go with the flow” or “follow your instincts”. The credit for the first newspaper horoscope column goes to R.H. Naylor, a 20th century British astrologer who wrote an article that predicted the life events of the newly born princess, Margaret. He followed the stars at the exact time the princess was born to make his predictions. His predictions were unbelievably precise and accurate and gained a large amount of attention. He talked about her love life and forthcoming problems with alcohol. After his popularity from the Princess’s horoscope, Naylor was asked to write more fortunes. Again, his forecasts were definite. Soon, he began writing a column in a newspaper, giving advice for people whose birthdays fell on that week. He started the concept of “sun signs”, which our the zodiac signs we know today. After that, astrology as we know now was born. Its popularity has remained relatively consistent over the years. Recently, the American Federation of Astrologers states that 23% of the American population still read their horoscopes every day.

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Summary of Body: Horoscopes are more than just an insignificant column in the newspaper. We now know that they actually have a deep history deriving from ancient Asia and Europe and we know what happened when the concept spread around the globe. We’ve learned how they have switched over from primal weather forecasts to the modern entertaining daily fortunes.
Clincher: So next time you’re scrolling through instagram or flipping through a magazine and see you horoscope, read it, and think about the all the history and studies it took for this fortune to come to be.