Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the astrology podcast.

Today is Monday, November 23rd, 2020, starting at 133 p.m. in Denver, Colorado,

and this is the 280th episode of the show. In this episode I'm going to be giving an overview of the history of Western astrology.

So the genesis of this episode is I recently did an interview with Kira Taborne on the astrology

podcast where she wanted to talk about the recent revival of traditional astrology that's happened over the past 30 years and to place it in the context of the history of astrology.

And it was really good discussion and I really enjoyed having it, although it made me realize that I had never given an overview of the history of astrology on the astrology podcast, even though I've dealt with little individual topics during the course of little pieces of the history of astrology or subtopics, I've never really gone over everything.

So that's going to be my goal here today.

All right, so why don't we jump right into it with that said?

So this is going to be kind of one of those long detailed overview.

So it is an overview, but I'm also going to get into some detail. It'll probably be one of those longer discussions, but think of this like a class, like a deep dive into the history of astrology, especially for those of you that don't have any background in it and really want to know where it came from and how astrology in the west got started.

All right, so here's my little slideshow presentation. So as I said I'm going to give a

broad overview of the history and transmission of Western astrology. I'm going to focus

especially on periods of transmission and synthesis when

astrology in the West was transmitted from one culture to another which

essentially inaugurates a new era

in the history of astrology each time every few hundred years.

I'm also going to discuss some similarities

compared to back then when some of these transmissions took place and when there were these

revival of older forms of astrology and how that actually compares to now and how things are very similar in some ways.

I'm also going to explore the role of tradition versus innovation,

and by the end of this I hope to give you sort of an idea and some reflections on where things are headed now based on the

trajectory of astrology over the past 2,000 years, actually 3,000, 3,000 or 4,000 years I should say.

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