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Date: 16  February 2016

Post No. 2547

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Someone asked whether a sage could make divination. Yang Hsiung replied that a sage could certainly make divination about Heaven and Earth. If that is so, continued, the questioner, what is the difference between the sage and the astrologer?

Yang Hsiung replied, “The astrologer foretells what the effects of heavenly phenomena will be on man; the sage foretells what the effects of man’s actions will be on the heavens.”

—-Chinese anecdote

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What is Astrology? Persians’ View

If you become an astrologer, constrain yourself to take great pains over mathematics. The science of judicial astrology is a many-sided one, and perfect justice, without the commission of any error, cannot be done to it, there being nobody so accurate that he never commits an error.  Be that as it may, the fruit of astrology is prognostication, and when you have constructed an almanac the advantage of it lies in its prognostications. Since, therefore, prognostications are essential, endeavour to become well acquainted with their principles and be competent in the art of almanac making. It is only when the star almanac is exact and the ascendant star rightly identified that prognostication is accurate.

—-Kai Ka Us Ibn Iskandar