Astrology
They believe that if you channel your life according to the heavens you will be fine. Human affairs and events in the sky had some connection. You could not only foretell the future but also learn what one was expected to do to make your life smoothly. The opposite was that to go against the signs in the sky would be to violate the prescribed pattern of nature.
Lau Tzu
Lay Tzu, a very famous Chinese and also the father of Daoism believed very strongly in nature as guider. He as many others before and after him believed in a spiritual entity or deity. He was just clever enough not to give it a name and then defend it. For him it was enough to refer to it as : 'The Way'
Astronomy
It was because of this connection between the Heaven and yourself that the Chinese recorded the events as it unfolded above them. Though mostly secondary and distorted, records dated back as far as 1500 BC. were found.
Eclipse
Somehow an eclipse had a special attraction for many cultures and the Chinese was no acceptation. A typical account is an inscription of an eclipse and the suicide of a King called Ching. Other times they foretell that bad things would happen. Many times it did. Do the Heavens play a role and have a direct influence in our lives?
As a follower of Astronomy I find it hard to believe in pure Astrology. I can see why the earlier Chinese Astronomers believed differently but I still wonder what they would have thought about their own beliefs had they known more about the Universe.
But most important is that they did not only believe in the sky, they had firsthand knowledge about its appearance and could notice any change of it. Something I do not find in modern day Astrology or I fail to see.
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