When most people hear the word astrology, what surely comes to mind is the twelve signs of the zodiac that are divided into 12 signs based on birthdays, right? For example, people born between March 21 and April 19 are classified as Aries, and one of the things that comes to mind is a division that you're already used to seeing in magazines like this one. But it would be wrong to think of this as real astrology.
Astrology has a very long history, and its origins are generally thought to date from the time of the prosperous Sumerian civilization about 5,000 years ago (second century B.C., Mesopotamian plains).
Since antiquity, astrology has been considered a very difficult study requiring knowledge of both philosophy, astronomy, and attributes, and is usually virtually unknown to the average person. In the days before calculators and computers, it also required very complex hand calculations to work out the positions of the various bodies in the solar system and produce an astrological chart.
But more than 100 years from today, an astrologer named Alain Reaux turned that kind of complexity into extreme simplification. He used only the Sun, which does not require positional calculations, to project a person's personality, and developed a rough and simple solar horoscope. However, this kind of solar astrology has a very far distance from the real astrology and astrological astrology, and it can only be regarded as a kind of game to a certain extent, and cannot be equated with the vast astrology. This leads many people to think that astrology is so superficial and simple that it divides people into only 12 personalities. This is not the case, as the sun signs do not reflect the "irreplaceable nature of a person". It is important to know that astrologers create a unique chart (also called a natal chart or astrolabe) for each person they analyze, and like a fingerprint, no one can have the exact same chart as you. Because everyone is born at a different time and place, when you look at the sky, the planets in the sky for you, the position is also different, from big to small can give you a different impact, resulting in each person's destiny and character are different.
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We generally talk about the [SIGN] (SIGN), refers to the [SUN SIGN] (SUN SIGN); that is, the human being (of course, is the people of the Earth) as the center, with the That is to say, centered on a person (of course, a person on the earth), the same time in the orbit of the sun (the Greek word is ZODIAC: that is to say - the circle formed by animals, also known as the "ecliptic") on the orbit of the sun to the relative position of the constellation. (i.e., the date of birth to calculate the constellation)
And the ancient astrologers, they found - in the Earth's 360-degree interface extends out of the solar system, exactly about 30 degrees each of the equinoxes each, totaling twelve star clusters. The babies born at each of these magnitudes (clusters) of the Earth's orbit always grew up with a number of similar characteristics, including behavioral traits. These ideas and associations (rich in imagination and creativity) were linked together to humanize these star clusters; and with the addition of some mythological overtones, they became an important part of the culture (mainly Greek and Roman mythology).
These fortunes have evolved and have been passed down for 5,000 years, and they are represented by the twelve signs of the zodiac. But these constellations do not mean a particular "star", but only [a representative symbol with the same name].
The twelve constellations are Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces in order of the equinoxes (the day of the equinox), i.e., zero degrees of the ecliptic. Origin of Aquarius In the city of Troy, there lived a handsome prince. His handsome appearance was so great that even the beautiful women of the city could not even begin to marvel at him.
One day, the gods were going to hold a banquet, but one of the girls who poured wine for Zeus was injured, so there was no one who could do the job instead. So Zeus was very upset and didn't know what to do. The gods saw that Zeus was so worried, and wanted to help find a replacement, but the girls introduced to Zeus were not very satisfied.
One day, the god Apollo came to the city of Troy and saw that the prince was playing with the courtesans. He thought to himself, there is such a handsome prince on earth, so Apollo returned to the gods and reported what he saw in Troy to Zeus, who found it incredible and wanted to see the Trojan prince with his own eyes.
When Zeus had seen the Trojan prince, he was thinking about it every day, so Zeus had an evil idea brewing in his mind.
Zeus came to the city of Troy again, and when the Trojan prince was alone, Zeus turned into a big eagle, and when the prince was not paying attention, he grabbed the prince and went back to the world of the gods.
When the Trojan prince came to the realm of the gods, Zeus asked him to take the place of the wounded girl to pour wine for Zeus, so the prince had no choice but to stay in the realm of the gods.
The prince missed his hometown and his family very much, and at the same time, the king of Troy also missed the prince very much, and wondered where he had gone. Zeus felt ashamed and couldn't bear to see the prince wasting away day by day, so he sent a dream to the king, telling him the situation of the prince in the world of gods. In order to comfort the king, he gave him a few divine horses as a consolation.
And Zeus also let the prince go back to Troy to see the king, and then come back to the world of the gods for Zeus to do the work of pouring wine, the Trojan prince from then on in the sky into a water bottle, responsible for pouring wine to Zeus.
Whenever the night looking at the starry sky, there is no see a shining water bottle astrological sign, is pouring wine for you! The origin of Pisces The goddess of beauty, Venus, took her beloved son - the little god of love, Cupid, dressed up and ready to go to a luxurious banquet. In this banquet, all the participants are gods and goddesses, which is called a "feast of the immortals".
All the goddesses are more beautifully dressed than one another, and they don't want to be compared to others; as for the male gods, they have a glass of wine in their hands, and they are talking in groups. And naughty children, has been unable to hold back, play want to hide and seek to come.
When the whole banquet gradually entered the climax, everyone was intoxicated by the delicious food, and the aroma of drunkenness, suddenly came an uninvited guest, destroying the atmosphere of the whole banquet.
This uninvited guest, with his hideous appearance and evil heart, appeared at the banquet with the purpose of destroying it, and obviously, he has achieved this purpose.
He reached out and toppled the table where the food was set, slammed the potted plant into the sink, and gave a horrible look that scared every attendee in the room. Everyone began to scurry around, and what had been a wonderful party became such a panic, with screams and the cries of small children.
At this time, Venus suddenly realized that Cupid had disappeared, and she looked around nervously, not caring about the presence of the uninvited guest, Venus searched all the corners of the banquet, and finally under the piano, and found the Cupid who was already shaking with fear, and Venus could not help but hold Cupid tightly in her arms.
In order to prevent Cupid from being separated from her again, Venus thought of a way to use a rope to tie the feet of the two people together, and then turned into two fish, so that the success of the escape from this terrible banquet. The origin of Aries In an ancient and distant land, the king and queen divorced because of the incompatibility of character, and took another woman, but unfortunately this new queen was naturally good at jealousy, and could not bear the king's love for a pair of children left by his ex-wife, so the evil plot gradually took shape in her mind.
As spring approaches and it is time to plant seeds, the new queen sends cooked wheat to unknowing farmers across the country. Wheat that is already ripe, no matter how much water and fertilizer, of course, can not send out buds. The farmers, who were kept in the dark, were puzzled.
The new queen then spread rumors about the wheat, alleging that the reason why the wheat could not sprout is because the country is cursed, and the curse is all because of the prince and the princess's evil thoughts, which caused the wrath of heaven, leading to the punishment of the gods to the country.
The simple peasants heard the rumor, oh my God! This is not good! Because of the evil prince and princess, the people of the country will be trapped in the abyss of poverty and hunger, what a terrible thing!
Soon the whole country, men and women, young and old, unanimously demanded that the king must put the prince and the princess to death, so that the country can lift the curse and calm the wrath of the heavens, so that the people's hard work of cultivation can be rewarded, and the country can return to the stability and prosperity of the past.
Although the king was reluctant to give up, but in order to calm the anger of the people, had no choice but to agree to the people's request, ready to put the princess and the prince to death, in exchange for the people's trust. The news reached the ears of the prince and the princess's birth mother, of course, is surprised and afraid, rushed to the great god of the sky - Zeus for help. Zeus, of course, knew that it was the queen who was responsible and agreed to help. In the execution of the day, the sky suddenly appeared with a long golden hair of the ram, the prince brother and sister to save, just in the flight to the sea on the way, the ram accidentally, so that the sister fell into the sea and died. The origin of Taurus One day, the sky god Zeus wandered on earth, passing through a country, suddenly saw the country's princess is very beautiful, so that Zeus unknowingly look out of God, back to the sky, is still on this beautiful princess can not forget.
And in the country to which the princess belongs, there is a very big and beautiful pasture, which has more than countless cattle grazing, play, the princess often come to this pasture with this group of lovely cattle to play together.
On a sunny morning, the princess appeared in the pasture as usual, and when she was having fun with the cows, there was a singing cow among the cows, whose voice was so beautiful and melodious that it attracted the princess to walk towards him.
As soon as the princess saw the cow, she fell in love with him. She was so happy to see him, because not only was his voice perfect, but his appearance was just as good. Just as the princess was slowly leaning on the cow and singing with him, the cow suddenly picked up the princess and flew towards the sky.
After a long flight, the bull finally stopped in a beautiful land, and then changed into a human, to express his love to the princess. It turns out that this cow is the incarnation of the god Zeus, because he could not suppress the service to the princess of the day and night thoughts, decided to come to the princess to express their love.
The beautiful princess then accepted the love of Zeus, the two together back to the sky life. And Zeus to commemorate the confession of the place, the princess's name Europa as the name of the land. That land is exactly the continent of Europe today. The mythology of Taurus is the only one of the twelve signs of the Zodiac that depicts love, breaking the common misconception that Taurus lacks a wave of warmth. Origin of Gemini Princess Leda gave birth to many lovely children, including two brothers, not only is the relationship particularly good, looks almost exactly the same, it is easy to let people think that the two of them are a pair of twins.
In fact, in these two brothers, the brother is the Princess Lida and the sky god Zeus son, the younger brother is born with the King of Bathsheba, the two people for the same mother and half-brothers, and the identity of the older brother is a "god", and have eternal life, the younger brother is a general ordinary people.
One day, Greece was attacked by a huge boar, and the princes summoned many warriors to hunt the boar down. When the boar was successfully killed, the warriors were fighting for each other's honor, and they formed a hatred among themselves.
In one of the marketplace occasions, the two sides of each other do not see each other in the eyes of the warriors met, of course, and inevitably a quarrel. In the middle of the quarrel, some people started to fight, so the scene became uncontrollable, and many people were injured or even killed in the fight. Unfortunately, the younger of the two princes was also killed in the chaos.
The brother, who had always been very close to his brother, could not accept the news that his brother was dead, and hugged his brother's body and cried, hoping that his brother would come back to life, so that the two of them could enjoy the joyous days of the old friendship together.
So, the brother returned to the sky and asked his father, Zeus, to bring his brother back to life. But Zeus told him that his brother was just an ordinary man who would have died, and that if he really wanted to bring his brother back to life, he would have to share his remaining life force with his brother.
The affectionate brother, of course, did not hesitate to agree immediately, and from then on, the two brothers can live together again joyfully. Origin of Cancer Sensitive and sentimental Cancer is a symbol of motherhood, arms around the chest, showing the nature of the mother to protect her children.
However, in terms of another symbolism, the baby in the arms represents the helpless and fragile self, and the arms around the chest illustrate the strong sense of self-protection of Cancer.
A story from Greek mythology emphasizes the aggressive nature of Cancer.
It starts with Hercule - the son of Zeus and the mortal, whom the queen of heaven, Hera, tried to put to death three times: he was also the greatest Greek hero, the strongest man in the world. There was nothing in the world that he could not do, and even the gods relied on his assistance in conquering the Giant Men, and, of course, Hercule did the gods much credit.
One day, he arrives in the kingdom of Messini, and is about to receive a hero's welcome when the king, at the behest of Sheila, gives him a difficult task - to kill the hydra that lives in the swamps, which is difficult because every head cut off will give birth to countless other heads.
Hercule came up with a way to burn the heads of the snake with fire, which easily solved the problem of eight heads. See only the last one left, Sheila in the sky angry angry, "is this time again failed?" She was not willing to do it! So she called a huge crab from the sea to hinder Hechuli, the giant crab stretched out its powerful double crabs to clamp Hechuli's feet, but everyone knew that Hechuli was the strongest man in the world! This giant crab still ended up dying from his brute strength.
Scylla failed again, but the crab's reckless sacrifice, but feel the heart, in order to admire the crab's loyalty to the mission, even if it did not succeed, Scylla still placed it in the sky, which became the constellation of Cancer. The origin of Leo In the face of the challenger, straight to fight alone king style, is the symbol of Leo, rumor has it that the origin of Leo and Hechuli.
Hercule was the illegitimate son of Zeus and mortals, he was born with incomparable divine power, and the Queen of Heaven, Sheila, was burning with jealousy. In Hechuli is still a baby, put two giant snakes in the cradle, hoping to bite Hechuli, I did not expect the Hechuli smiled and grasped the death of them, from a young age, Hechuli has been worshiped as "the greatest hero of mankind.
Sheila, of course, will not because of a failure to give up to kill Hechuli, she deliberately let Hechuli madness after beating his wife, Hechuli woke up very remorseful and sad, decided to asceticism to clear their own sins, he came to Maximilian to ask the king to send to the task, who knew that the king by the instructions of Sheila, and indeed gave him twelve difficult tasks, which must be completed in twelve days, one of which is to kill a lion-eating man, and then to kill a lion-eating man. One of them was to kill a man-eating lion. This lion usually lives in the forest, Hechuli into the forest to find him, but the forest is silent, all the animals, birds, deer, squirrels are eaten by the lion clean, Hechuli tired of looking for a high sleep. Just then, the giant lion came out of a cave with a double opening with its head held high, and Hechuli opened his eyes and saw, oh my! The man-eating lion was five times the size of the average lion and was covered in animal blood, adding to the horror. Herculaneum first shot him with an arrow, and then hit him with a stick, all to no avail, the giant lion is invulnerable, and finally Herculaneum had to fight with the lion, the process is very grueling, but in the end, or strangled the lion with brute force.
Although the piranha lion died, but Sheila in honor of his courage to fight with Hechuli, the piranha lion threw into the air, turned into Leo. Origin of Virgo The god of agriculture, who manages grain, and the Greek mother of the earth, Dimitri, had a beautiful only daughter, Persephone, who was the splendid goddess of Zao, and wherever she gently stepped, delicate flowers bloomed. One day she and her companion were picking flowers in a meadow in the valley, when suddenly she saw a silver daffodil, the sweet fragrance of which wafted through the air, and Persephone thought, "It is more beautiful than any of my flowers!" The beauty of the glittering, so she away from the companions sneak closer, reaching out to touch the flowers, suddenly, the ground cracked open a hole, a carriage pulled by two black horses, rushed out of the ground, it turned out to be the king of the netherworld of the Haitian Shi, who is in love with the "most beautiful spring god" Potherphon, set up into the trickery and captured her.
The cries for help from Persephone echoed through the valleys and oceans, and, of course, reached the ears of her mother, Dimitri, who was very sad! She left the grain to be harvested and flew over thousands of mountains to look for her daughter.
The human race less Mother Earth, the seeds no longer germinate, fertile land knot not out of the string of wheat, human beings to starve to death, Zeus saw this situation had to order the king of the underworld to release the Poseidon, the king of the underworld had to obey Zeus, but the secret is born of trickery - before leaving the Poseidon a fruit, Poseidon how to know that once she ate this fruit can not be in the earth life, doomed to go back to the dark stink of hell. The world's greatest city is the world's greatest city.
Zeus had no choice but to say, "He will only have a quarter of a year to be with Persephone". From then on, as long as the earth is full of frost, when the grass does not grow, people know that this is because the Potherphon went to hell again. Virgo symbolizes the beauty and purity of Proserpine, the goddess of spring, and the ears of wheat raised by her mother, which she also became the object in her hand. Even so, she was no longer the carefree young girl frolicking in the meadow, and although she would be resurrected every spring, still bright and beautiful, the stench and terrible atmosphere of hell was with her forever. The origin of Libra In ancient times, human beings and gods lived on the ground, living a peaceful and happy life together, but human beings are getting smarter and smarter, not only learned to build houses and pave roads, but also learned to fight, cheat, and other bad habits, which made many gods and goddesses couldn't stand it, and left human beings and returned to live in the sky.
But among the gods, there is a goddess who represents justice, and is not discouraged by human nature, and still lives with humans. However, the human race became more and more aggressive, and started to have wars and kill each other. In the end, even the Goddess of Justice couldn't stand it anymore and moved back to the sky, but it doesn't mean that she has completely despaired of human beings, she still thinks that human beings will realize one day and return to their past goodness and innocence.
Returning to the sky, Goddess of Justice had an unexpected encounter with Poseidon one day, who mocked her for her foolish trust in humans, and a heated debate ensued between the two. During the debate, Goddess of Justice thinks that Poseidon has insulted her and must apologize to him, but Poseidon does not think so, and says that the two are at loggerheads, and that they will sue Zeus.
This situation makes Zeus feel very difficult, because the goddess of justice is his own daughter, and the god of the sea is his own brother, favoring which side can not. Just when Zeus felt a headache for this, the queen made a timely suggestion, asking Poseidon and Goddess of Justice to race, and whoever loses will apologize to the other.
The match took place in the middle of the square in heaven, and Poseidon started first. Poseidon swung his rod at the wall, and immediately very beautiful water flowed out of the cracks. The Goddess of Justice then changed into a tree with a reddish-brown trunk, green leaves and golden olives, and most importantly, anyone who looked at the tree felt love and peace. The match was over, and Poseidon conceded defeat.
Zeus, in honor of the result, took the scale he carried with him and threw it up into the sky, becoming the present-day constellation of Libra. The origin of Scorpio The son of Apollo, the sun god - Banyon, born beautiful and sexy, he himself also feel conceited, attitude is always arrogant and rude, too strong personality often make him unintentionally offended a lot of people. One day, a man told Barodon, "You are not the son of the Sun God!" Said laughing and left, how can the strong Bar Norton swallow this mouth, so they asked his mother: "I am not the son of Apollo or not?" But no matter how much his mother assured him that he was indeed the son of Apollo, Banoton still did not believe his mother, and said, "The man who made fun of you is the son of Zeus, a very high position, if you still do not believe it, then go and ask Apollo, the god of the sun, himself!"
Apollo, hearing his son's doubts, laughed and said, "Don't listen to them, of course you are my son!"
Banoton still persisted in his disbelief, in fact, of course, he knew that the sun god never talks about panic, but he had another purpose - to ask to drive his father's solar car to prove that he was Apollo's son." How can this be?" Apollo was shocked, the sun is the master of all life, if you are not careful, you can make a huge disaster, but can not argue with Banoton, Apollo is explaining how to drive the solar car in a certain orbit, Banoton is high-minded, did not even listen to immediately jumped into the car, and sped away.
The result is of course tragic, people, animals, plants on the ground are either hot or frozen to death, but also messed up the time, making the sky dark, complained a lot. The gods tried to curb Bárnodon by releasing a poisonous scorpion from the queen Sheila, which bit Bárnodon's ankle, while Zeus struck Bárnodon with a terrible thunderbolt, only to see him fall to the ground with a scream and die.
Peace was restored to the people, and in honor of the scorpion that was also killed by the lightning, the constellation was named "Scorpio". The origin of Sagittarius In the distant ancient Greek steppe, galloped a group of half-man half-beast community, which is a fierce nature of the community. Half man, half beast" represents the rationality and irrationality, human nature and animal nature of the contradiction between the struggle, this is "Sagittarius".
The Sagittarius are the only exception to this rule - Kieran. Although Chilen is also a member of the Centauri, but the kindness of nature, treating friends in particular, known for frankness, so Chilen in the tribe is very respected, one day, the greatest hero of Greece - Hercule, to visit his friend, the young that is to strangle with both hands to death of a giant snake of the super Hercules, heard that the Centaurs are also a good brewing nation, the thought of mellow wine, regardless of the wine is the Centauri's **** have property, they forced his friend to steal it to give to the Centaurs, and then forced his friend to steal it to give to the Centaurs. Then he forced his friend to steal it for him to enjoy, or else beat him to death. Everyone knows that Hercule is the strongest man in the world, and even Apollo, the sun god, had to let him have three points, and was forced to do what he was told to do by the Centaurs.
Just as Hercule was intoxicated by the fragrance of the wine, the aroma of the wine had already filled the entire tribe, all the Centaurs were rebuking Hercule, Hercule was furious, and took his bow and chased the Centaurs, who fled to the home of the most respected member of the tribe, Chiltern, and then Chiltern heard the hooves of ten thousand outside the house and panicky cries for help, and he didn't think twice, opened the door and ran out. He did not even think about it, he opened the door and ran straight out, but when it was too late, Hechuli pulled the bow full of instantly shot out, and even shot Chilun's heart, the good and innocent Chilun sacrificed his own life for his friends.
Zeus heard the centaurs hissing, so he hands to pick up the body of Chilen, thrown to the sky, Chilen instantly transformed into a number of shining stars, such as the form of the Centauri, from now on in order to commemorate the Chilen, the constellation is known as the "Sagittarius". The origin of Capricorn Capricorn is strict and introverted, just like its name. In Greek mythology, he was in charge of Zeus's cattle and sheep, and they called him Penn, the god of shepherds.
Penn was so ugly that he could almost be described as hideous. He had two horns on his head and a sheep's hoof on the lower part of his body where his feet should be. This ugly appearance made the shepherd god, Penn, so embarrassed and inferior that he could not sing along with the gods or woo the fluttering fairies. Ah! Who can understand that underneath the ugly exterior, there is a passionate heart? Day and night, he can only play the Xiao Xiao to express the sorrow of his heart.
One day, when the gods gathered together to drink and laugh, Zeus, knowing that Penn was a good whistler, summoned him to play for the gods.
When the mournful sound of the Xiao murmured in the forest, the wilderness, the gods and goblins are with the song as if intoxicated, the other side of the forest, a multi-head of the hundred-eyed beasts are whistling heaven and earth, rows and pouring the sea and come. The fairies are scared of the color, have thrown down the hands of the harp into a branch of the butterfly fluttering away, and the gods do not care about the hands of the full of wine, some into a bird wings and go, some leaped into the river into a tail of fish downstream, some simply into a light smoke, disappeared without a trace.
The shepherd god, Pan En, looked at the gods are fleeing the escape, slip away, but he is still for the "into what to escape good? He was still hesitant about what to turn into to escape. The first thing he did was to turn into a goat and jump into a stream. But the stream he chose was too shallow to accommodate his huge body, so he turned his lower body into a fish's tail, while his upper body remained a goat's head.
The fish tail symbolizes Capricorn's shyness.