0 someone who studies astrology and uses it to tell people how they believe it will affect their lives
If philosophy or astrology were revealed to the ancients, then the sayings of philosophers or astrologers and the prophecies of inspired seers are equivalent.
The popular astrologers claim that the forms in this world obey the spheres that carry their appearances (in the images of animals).
We have not only mathematicians becoming philosophers, but astrologers becoming experimentalists, statesmen becoming naturalists, and alchemists becoming entrepreneurs.
This fact, the author adds, the astrologers had to take into consideration in their predictions.
If the patient gets a chance to glance at it, she sees something similar to an astrologer's map (fig. 2).
Women are chided for believing in omens and consulting astrologers and palmists.
When a courtier asked the astrologer how long he (the astrologer) would live, the astrologer said he still had many years.
At this, the courtier chopped off the astrologer's head, proving conclusively his inability to predict the future.
