Astromancy vs Astrology - What's the difference?
astromancy | astrology | Synonyms |
Divination by the stars; astrology in its modern prophetic aspect.
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:
Astrology is a synonym of astromancy.
As nouns the difference between astromancy and astrology
is that astromancy is divination by the stars; astrology in its modern prophetic aspect while astrology is divination about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of celestial bodies.astromancy
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(wikipedia astromancy)Noun
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*astrology
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(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.