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Abu Ma‘shar further describes the planets as sentient bodies, endowed with spirit (rūḥ) rather than mechanical entities. [73] However, they would remain in complete obedience to God and act only with God's permission. [73] Astrology was usually considered through the lens of Hellenistic philosophy such as Neo-Platonism and Aristotelianism.
In astrology, certain stars are considered significant. Historically, all of the various heavenly bodies considered by astrologers were considered "stars", whether they were stars, planets, other stellar phenomena like novas and supernovas, or other solar system phenomena like comets and meteors. [1] [2]
The navagraha are nine heavenly bodies and deities that influence human life on Earth according to Hinduism and Hindu mythology. [1] The term is derived from nava (Sanskrit: नव "nine") and graha (Sanskrit: ग्रह "planet, seizing, laying hold of, holding").
Astrology, in its broadest sense, is the search for meaning in the sky. [25] Early evidence for humans making conscious attempts to measure, record, and predict seasonal changes by reference to astronomical cycles, appears as markings on bones and cave walls, which show that lunar cycles were being noted as early as 25,000 years ago. [26]
Other terms used for this body include body of glory, [2] spirit-body, luciform body, augoeides ('radiant body'), astroeides ('starry or sidereal body'), and celestial body. [ 3 ] The concept derives from the philosophy of Plato : the word 'astral' means 'of the stars'; thus the astral plane consists of the Seven Heavens of the classical planets .
His beliefs that the heavenly bodies were the result of an evolutionary process and that the sun was a great burning stone (rather than the deity Helios), resulted in his arrest. He was charged with contravening the established religious beliefs. Although acquitted, he was forced to go into retirement. [2]
Financial astrology, also known as economic astrology or astro-economics, is a pseudoscientific practice that correlates celestial bodies’ movements with events in financial markets.
The Chinese word for "star, heavenly body" is 星 xīng. The character 星 originally had a more complicated form: 曐 , a phono-semantic character ( 形聲字 ) whose semantic portion, 晶 , originally depicting three twinkling stars (three instances of the "sun" radical 日 ).