Astrology is a symbolic language that tells us how we experience ourselves and the world.Astrology is many different things for different people, and can be hard to define in one word. Everyone experiences astrology in his or her own way. For some people; astrology is a science, for others it is an art or a skill, or even a religion.And for many it is just entertainment, good or bad. Astrologycan, in fact, be applied to anything with a definite birth time and place.

   Astrology can be defined as a key to ourselves, but at the same time it opens windows to other people and into their worlds. Astrology takes us back to our roots, yet without forgetting the present. The world of astrological meanings is about the humanness common to us all, not tied to any time or place.

The study of astrology dates back thousands of years ago to the ancient Egyptians. It has been believed that the biblical Magi 'the kings who brought gifts to the Christ child' were astrologers whose study of their art told them where to find the baby.

It wasn't until the European Renaissance of the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, when high learning and occult sciences were at their zeniths, that astrology came into its own in the West.

Although it didn't coexist well with Catholicism, it was accepted in Protestant countries. During this period in history, however, astrology was still the province of the rich and powerful.

In England, astrology reached its high point during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603). But with the discoveries and theories of astronomers Copernicus and Galileo in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, astrology and astronomy diverged, never to be reunited under the same scientific banner. Astrology lost its association with mysticism and was regarded as a pseudo-science.