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The Stars

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NPR

Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.715K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Astrology has existed for thousands of years and has roots that span the globe. But is it a science or a religion or just a kind of personality test? And why is it more popular than ever? This week, the story of how finding our fates in the stars moved from the fringes to the mainstream and became a multi-billion dollar industry.

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0:00.0

These late eclipses in the sun and moon pretend no good to us. Love cools, friendship falls

0:20.0

off, brothers divide, in cities, mutinies, in countries, discord, in palaces, treason.

0:33.2

To me astrology is the influence of the planet's sun and moon on life on earth.

0:39.7

It goes back to an indeterminate time. It began in Mesopotamia when it was mainly for the kings.

0:47.2

And spread to Egypt and from there to ancient Greece.

0:52.3

And as Andras poise se prina populigero, pistabe o diboru se nadiavasi to mellus taster.

0:58.9

Fonus e to neaftoto astral world. Spread out through the Greco-Gone world and into the Byzantine world,

1:06.8

the Arab world and so on.

1:09.7

Or hopes that they were astrologers and world leaders that had their astrologers.

1:20.8

And even the greatest astronomers then were also astrologers.

1:24.8

So somebody like Kaplur.

1:26.8

Go on to scapular. He was an astrologer.

1:28.8

Pytolemy, St. Thomas Aquinas, El Geroony, the greatest Islamic scholar of the villages,

1:36.4

Shakespeare had some knowledge of it. It always had a learned and highly educated

1:42.5

clientele in group of adherents.

1:48.6

But with what they call the Enlightenment, science became dominant.

1:54.0

Thinking became more, I wouldn't say, a religious but secular.

1:58.3

And people saw things a different way.

2:00.9

The rise of reason has something to worship in itself.

2:07.2

That man is the measurable things.

2:10.2

People can figure out everything for themselves, explain everything,

2:15.1

and in effect explain it away.

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