The author is so disingenuous that this may be a book that makes you more ignorant than before you read it. Considers the relevance of ancient astrology today. Demonstrates how to construct and interpret a horoscope in the ancient manner, using original ancient horoscopes and handbooks. The author even uses an entire chapter to explain why the history of astrology should be studied when just saying that it's a historical phenomenon is more than enough. Explains the ancient understanding of the zodiac and its twelve signs, the seven planets, and the fixed circle of 'places' against which the signs and planets revolve. The reader in most cases will be deceived about the true nature of ancient astrology. This book is just a reminder of how utterly incompetent, dishonest and corrupt academia is. Of course in all likelihood the author knows about this but is lying. He knows about Gauquelin's Mars Effect but appears to not know that CSICOP's debunking of it was exposed as a lie by other skeptics and that there are other studies that keep confirming to this day astrology as a science that gives results (Correlation being the name of one peer reviewed journal). In fact one of the few charts he comments upon is from the medieval period (in 621 on the Islamic nation) instead of antiquity. He would rather claim that astrology is wrong instead of writing about most examples of its usage, probably because it would prove he and his peers wrong in their assumption of astrology being false. Wastes too much time in describing how astrology worked instead of doing what the title suggests: describing the historical developments of ancient astrology, something which is mostly ignored. Even for a brief history it could have been so much better. A terrible book in every conceivable way.
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