EARLY ASTROLOGERS… THAT WORKED FOR THE KING…

King Ashurbanipal of Assyria 668-625 BC

Photo & article sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashurbanipal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naburimannu

Naburimannu, a Chaldean astronomer and mathematician ...and his partner, the astrologer Rammanu-sumauser,

http://www.ancientmetaphysics.com/Ancient_Assyria.html

…were the dynamic duo astology research team of …Rammanu & Naburimannu… and they lived very well at the palace… delivering reports of planetary transits and predictions to King Ashurbanipal of Assyria 668 – 625BC… who then used this information politically and militarily… as discribed in the above linked article,

“Using Astrology, for the interpretation of omens, some of Asurbanipal's astrologers, such as Rammanu-sumausar and Naburimannu, became so adept at interpreting omens from daily movements of the planets that a system of making periodical reports to the king came into being.

Receiving swift messengers detailing 'all occurrences in heaven and earth' throughout his kingdom, and the results of his astrologer's examinations of them, Asurbanipal used the information as a political weapon, for the practical day-to-day running of his kingdom.”

Their records were kept on clay cuneiform tablets in a library at Nineveh. After the king died, Nineveh fell to the invading Medians and they destroyed the library… and all the ancient documents of astrology, history, mythology, and science… an early example of the conquering government’s malicious… ‘media control’…

…not to worry… astrologers are a crafty lot… they always have a cave, or a small remote castle, or mountain cabin, or high desert chaparral hideout… where they stash secret copies of their really important stuff… and despite the sudden changes in the ‘political’ wind… which they predict anyway… the science survives… you just have to really prospect and dig for the ‘lost info’

…and in my natal chart Jupiter, and then Mercury conjunct Chiron, are all in the sign of Virgo (details, analytical, investigative, research… and Virgo is ruled by Mercury and Chiron!) …ergo, for me… in my reality… that makes it a big part of the fun adventure… searching for lost esoteric knowledge! …sort of a ‘Indiana’ Garrett astrologer, the senior fellow, and field researcher, of the Mason Garrett Astrological Institute… which, by the way now has LECTURE 2 posted at MASON GARRETT ASTROLOGY COURSES. (It is now a Blogit subscription blog site but it will soon be re-posted as a Blogger site free to all)

…just an interesting historical bit that I ran across while on my cyber bike search engine tracking down the ancient origins of Planetary Declinations and prediction theories…

…which seem to be working quite well tonight …as they did for Rammanu & Naburimannu 2634 years ago… and now thanks to my ancient pals Ram & Naburi… whose spirits I feel smiling nearby… I cash a win ticket. HOOYAH! …Dodgers 12! Brewers 8!