For that reason, ancient and medieval astrologers believed the fortunate planet Venus "joyed" in the fifth house-that is, that she was particularly dignified, or powerful here.

He wrote that this event "only occurs once each 26,000-year cycle and would be most definitely of utmost significance to the top flight ancient astrologers".

Many modern and ancient mundane astrologers also believe correlations exist between geological phenomena (such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.) and astronomical phenomena (the movement of celestial bodies in relation to the Earth).

In order to give fuller interpretation to the Zodiac Signs, ancient astrologers subdivided each Sign into periods of approximately ten days.

A very different view obtains for the Ninth house, which was called "the house of the Sun God" by ancient astrologers.

The ancient astrologers devoted a considerable thought on Balarishta because if the new-born is not destined to live long, astrological prognostications are of no avail.

Teucer of Babylon was an ancient Egyptian astrologer of uncertain date, though possibly of the first century AD.

To ancient astrologers, the planets represented the will of the gods and their direct influence upon human affairs.

The seven classical planets are those easily seen with the naked eye, and were thus known to ancient astrologers.

Theon states that certain (unnamed) ancient astrologers believed that the precession, rather than being a steady unending motion, instead reverses direction every 640 years.