Astrology vs Divination - What's the difference?
astrology | divination |
Divination]] about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of [[celestial body, celestial bodies.
* c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), Canterbury Tales , Harleian manuscript:
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 274:
* 2012 , The Guardian , (headline), 7 Feb 2012:
(uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
(countable) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.
As nouns the difference between astrology and divination
is that astrology is divination about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of celestial bodies while divination is the act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.astrology
English
(wikipedia astrology)Noun
(en-noun)- a pore scoler / had lerned art but al his fantasye / was torned for to lerne astrologye […].
- For if astronomy is the study of the movements of the heavens, then astrology is the study of the effects of those movements.
- Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science.