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Decoded: What would ancient astrologers have told us about 2017?

By the end of the 17th century, emerging scientific concepts in astronomy undermined the astrology

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Karl Kinsella

Apparently, 2017 will be my year – indeed, it is a good year for everyone born between November 22 and December 21 under the sign of Sagittarius – half man, half horse, all myth.

Modern astrology as we know it – in the form of a yearly, monthly or daily horoscope – is based on a celestial coordinate system known as the “zodiac”, a Greek word that means the circle of life. And, although astrology has been dated to the third millennium BC, it has been argued that it began as soon