Astrology vs Prophecy - What's the difference?
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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:
A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
* 1967 , George King, The Five Temples Of God , The Aetherius Society (2014 edition),
* Marjorie Garber, “ ” (Quotation Marks)'' in 2001 , S.I. Salamensky, ''Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation , Routledge,
* 2013 , Theodor Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity , Routledge,
* 2014 , Emran El-Badawi, The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions , Routledge,
As nouns the difference between astrology and prophecy
is that astrology is divination about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of celestial bodies while prophecy is a prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.As a verb prophecy is
dated form of lang=en.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.
Synonyms
* , astromancySee also
* astronomyprophecy
English
(wikipedia prophecy)Noun
(prophecies)- French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book .
Derived terms
* self-fulfilling prophecy * self-defeating prophecyVerb
(en-verb)page 19:
- The manipulation of these tremendous beneficient energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen.
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- One prophecied a change of fortunes for the club:
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- The Heideggerian tone of voice is indeed prophecied in Schiller’s discussion of dignity.
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- the parable in Mark 12:1—5 where some of Jesus’s followers who prophecied and were martyred in Antioch (Q 36;13—25; cf. 11:91);