Egyptian astrology

Birth of Egyptian astrology

Predicting the date of the flood of the Nile was important for the Egyptians. They realized that the flood was starting as soon as the star Sirius appeared on the eastern horizon, at the same time as the sun (a phenomenon called "heliacal rising" of Sirius). The flood of the Nile allowed the flooding of the banks and therefore the fertilization of the lands, so astrology went hand in hand with agriculture, the cycle of the seasons and the vegetation.

The importance of the sun

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The only planet that truly fascinated the Egyptians was the Sun, due to the regularity of its path. The great priests of Heliopolis, an ancient sacred city, taught that the god of the sun, Ra, appeared in different forms according to the various phases of the day, which correspond to the 4 ages of man. The morning sun was represented by a child , the midday one from an adult or a falcon, the setting sun from an old man, and the midnight one from the spoils ofOsiris in the underworld.

The year was divided into 12 months. Each month was divided, in turn, into 3 periods of 10 days, the ancestors of the decans still used by contemporary popular astrology. Their oldest representation is found in the fifth dynasty tomb (around 2000 BC).

The 12 signs of the Egyptian zodiac are:

Osiris: from 1 to 10 March and from 27 November to 18 December

Isis: from 11 to 31 March, from 18 to 29 October and from 19 to 31 December

Thot: from 1 to 19 April and from 8 to 17 November

Anubis: from 9 to 27 May and from 29 June to 13 July

Seth: from May 28th to June 18th and from September 28th to October 2nd

Horus: from April 20 to May 8 and from August 12 to 19

Sekhmet: from 29 July to 11 August and from 30 October to 7 November

Bastet: from 14 to 28 July, from 23 to 27 September and from 3 to 17 October

Geb: from 12 to 28 February and from 20 to 31 August

Nout: from 22 to 31 January and from 8 to 22 September

AmonRa: from 8 to 21 January and from 1 to 11 February

Hapi: from 1 to 7 January, from 19 to 28 June, from 1 to 7 September, from 18 to 26 November

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