In ancient Mesopotamia and the Middle East generally there was a strong belief in celestial omens, and that notion spread with the Achaemenian dynasty west to Greece and east to India. These ideas evolved during the Hellenistic age in Babylonia and Egypt, where astrologers began casting horoscopes based on the zodiac and celestial positions at the moment of one’s birth.
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