Learn about itLearn onlyHistorical practice
This page describes the practice. There is deliberately no automated reading for it — see the notes below.
Background
Hellenistic astrology originated around the late 2nd or early 1st century BCE and was practised until about the 6th or 7th century CE. Its texts and terminology were largely Greek.
How it works
Charts were cast for a moment using signs, houses counted from the rising sign, planetary rulerships and calculated points such as lots.
At a glance
- Also called
- Greco-Roman astrology, Ancient horoscopic astrology
- Traditions
- Hellenistic, Greco-Egyptian
- Regions
- Ancient Mediterranean
- You need
- Nothing
- Price
- Free