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The Astrological Spread
Author: Psychic
The Spiritual reading is similar to the Past Life reading in they both use only the Major Arcana and both deal with the inner person, the soul essence of an individual.
S= SIGNIFICATOR. This is the Major Arcana card chosen to represent the individual. It is symbolic of the Soul’s essence.
Card 1 Aries: Represents mood, disposition, and current problems
Card 2 Taurus: Represents the financial situation
Card 3 Gemini: Represents travel and communication
Card 4 Cancer: Represents home life, siblings and parents
Card 5 Leo: Represents pleasures
Card 6 Virgo: Represents health
Card 7 Libra: Represents partnerships and marriages
Card 8 Scorpio: Represents inheritances and deaths
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I Ching
Author: Psychic
At first glance the I Ching seems like a great chowder of images. Familiar, ordinary ones: a bowl, spoon, window, wheel. Urban, pastoral, alleyways, cows. Bizarre, fairy tale. And there are snatches of strange stories imbedded in fortune cookie epigrams, common sense amid gibberish.
Beneath it all, sixty-four hexagrams. A geometrical reiteration of two elements whose values are the simple inversion of each other (open/closed, black/white, zero/one; broken/ unbroken; male/female [cable connections, plugs]. Responsive/ receptive). Pure, whole numbers. Each hexagram has a name, and from that name come images. From the images come implications and from those implications come potential actions. Each hexagram: the systematic, natural, patterned unfolding of a cycle in graphic form.
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History of astrology
Author: Psychic
History of Astrology
Babylonian astrology
The history of astrology can now be traced back to ancient Babylonia, and indeed to the earliest phases of Babylonian history, in the third millennium B.C.[1][2]
In Babylonia as well as in Assyria as a direct offshoot of Sumerian culture (or in general the Mesopotamian culture), astrology takes its place in the official cult as one of the two chief means at the disposal of the priests (who were called bare or “inspectors”) for ascertaining the will and intention of the gods, the other being through the inspection of the liver of the sacrificial animal.
The earliest extant Babylonian astrology text is the Enuma Anu Enlil (literally meaning “When the gods Anu and Enlil…”), dating back to 1600 B.C. This text describes various astronomical omens and their application to national and political affairs. For example, a segment of the text says: “If in Nisannu the sunrise appears sprinkled with blood, battles. Nisannu is the Babylonian month corresponding to March/April in the Western calendar.
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