Did astrology begin in sky/earth cycles or was it just whipped up by some genius out of pure nothing?

Michael Zizis
3 min readJul 23, 2022

People carefully watched the reoccurring cycles of the earth and sky. They saw that the sky was speaking and in the long term could be made into order.

Once farming became our way of avoiding famine, order became essential to give the farmers and seeds abundance thru time. This was the beginning of kingship, and order. Then people assigned kingship to the heavens; order in earth and sky.

Essentially astrology began in hunting and then much later — farming. The gifted artists of Lascaux began painting bulls and a bull with seven stars in its nose, Taurus was the first sign of the zodiac, by progression of the equinoxes and earth rotational tilt cycles, about 28,000 years ago.

These brilliant folks looked to when the herbivore herds returned. Why? Because the other option was starvation especially for their beloved children. The seven stars in the bull’s nose are a representation of the seven stars of the Pleiades. These extraordinary people realized that feast and famine came in cycles and ALWAYS repeat.

Notice that the first two signs of the zodiac have horns: Aries {rams/sheep etc} and Taurus {bovines}. These symbolically repeated and represented SPRING and the end of starvation in winter.

It seems odd to me that people don’t have any notion that our kind starting with hunting then farming. We experience tech and conclude it’s always been this way. Our wired world including concrete and steel is a few decades old.

As the first settled farmers — the Babylonians — perfected farming, they noticed the sky told stories of gods including feast and famine. Since these blessings and miseries came from the heavens they assigned gods to these repeating cycles. Days getting longer ruled by the ascending light and then the second half of the year night gradually becoming dominant — was up to the gods. This meant that the heavens ruled feast and famine and the gods were associated with these repeating hundreds and hundreds of cycles.

Now we stare down into screens disregarding the actual sky while Europe, Asia, the U.S. and Australia roast. We say those nomadic pastoralists {look it up} and then farmers were idiots. Now we are destructive children — more unhappy as our toys multiply.

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Michael Zizis

40 years as a student of astrology. Born in Pittsburgh