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“There are things in astrology I take seriously and things which really annoy me and which I don’t take seriously. But for about the last 20 years, my sole interest has been in it as a cultural phenomenon. What’s it do? What’s it claim? What’s its nature?” said historian Nick Campion.
Campion is an associate professor of cosmology and culture at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and program director of their master’s degree in cultural astronomy and astrology. He also practiced astrology until the 1980s.
First, there’s more than one kind of astrology. Humans have looked to the stars all over the world and throughout time to create systems of meaning like the Chinese zodiac and Indian, or Vedic, astrology.