The History of the Horoscope - Hardcover

The history of astrology is an important part of the development of civilization. In Egypt astrology was employed for daily life; the stars were the source and at the same time the heralds of everything that happened, and the right to study the 'godlike science' of astrology was a privilege of the priesthood. The most ancient dwellers on the Euphrates, the Akkado-Sumerians, were believers in judicial astrology which was closely interwoven with their worship of the stars. The same is true of their successors, the Babylonians and Assyrians. David Ovason's new book presents the history of the horoscope through a rich variety of individual horoscopes which illuminate cultures and societies throughout the ages. He ranges from the earliest known personal horoscope, cast in 419 BC for the son of Shuma-usur in Babylon, through those cast by Henry Bolingbroke for Henry VI, and the eerily accurate horoscopes of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, to those of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald.

The History of the Horoscope is a rich and absorbing account of how the common language of the horoscope has developed over the past 3500 years and an illuminating insight into the quest for understanding of the human condition.

David Ovason is the author of numerous books on historical and esoteric subjects, including 'The Nostradamus Code', 'The Secrets of Nostradamus' and 'The Secret Architecture of Washington DC'.