Particular devotion was given to the movements of Jupiter, which they identified with their chief god Marduk, and Venus, associated with Ishtar, their goddess of war and love. The planets of our solar system, which were believed to be the brightest “stars” in the night sky, were most important to them. The Babylonians believed that the Universe was divided into six levels with three heavens, the topmost being a “heaven of stars” which the gods used to communicate with them. How could they understand the will of the gods to predict what would occur in their future?Īstronomy began by serving the Babylonians not as a science but as a part of their religion. As it became a seat of power, Babylonia’s people started to ask questions about their gods and the world around them. From roughly 2300 to 1879 BC, Babylonia grew from a small town to a large city and at last became the capital of an empire. People in the land of Babylonia (Iraq and Syria in modern times) created a large city on the banks of the Euphrates River. The Babylonians: Astrologers and Astronomers Excerpt from a Babylonian Astrology Treatise, opens a new window by The Louvre (Purchase, 1913), Photo by Poulpy, opens a new window / CC By-SA 3.0, opens a new windowĪnd yet, this began to change in the early days of civilization. It was felt there was no need to truly understand them or put them in any kind of order. The heavens above were anyone's guess, and the way things were was just the way the gods had made them. Thousands of years ago, these things were not widely known. You also probably know that planets other than our own have moons and the way to test to see whether or not something is true is by experimenting. Zodiac7 has conclusively proven itself to be of equal importance as standard Zodiac12 charts.You know, because you've been told, that the Earth revolves around the Sun. The 5th and 6th dimensions are also Geocentric and Heliocentric Longitudes, but planetary locations are calculated by dividing the wheel into 7 equal parts of 51.429° each rather than 12 parts of 30° each. The 4th dimension is the equivalent to the geocentric declinations- the locations of the planets in the vertical plane (their “altitude” north or south) as viewed from the Sun- though in heliocentric charts, this dimension is called the heliocentric latitudes. The 3rd dimension of Magi Astrology- the heliocentric longitudes- is the locations of the planets in the horizontal plane (around the chart wheel) as viewed from the Sun rather than the Earth. In the Magi Astrochart, declinational motion is shown like this: Planets shown inside the polygon on the left are moving northward (up.) Planets shown in inside the polygon on the right are moving southward (down.)Īgain, Magi Society research has clearly demonstrated that the 3rd and 4th dimensions of Magi Astrology are equally as important as the 1st and 2nd dimensions described above. In both types of charts, direct planetary motion in the longitudes is counter-clockwise. Magi Astrology research has irrefutably demonstrated the importance of the interrelationships between planets (the parallel and contra-parallel) in the declinations. Again in super-simple terms, these are the locations of the planets in the vertical plane (their “altitude” north or south) as viewed from Earth.
The 2nd dimension we use in Magi Astrology is the geocentric declinations. Working with only 1 dimension is truly working with only 16% of the necessary data for complete accuracy! Though western astrology does at times reference the other 5 dimensions, in no system other than Magi Astrology are they given the same importance as is accorded to the geocentric longitudes. Our research has demonstrated conclusively that there are 5 more dimensions of equal importance in chart analysis.