Meaning of astroscopy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. observation of the stars
   obsolete, uncountable
2. Any of various systems of prognostication by means of the planets and stars other than astrology involving the zodiac.
   uncountable

Examples

“That astroscopy, or the inspection of the stars, furnished practical aids to navigation and other pursuits from very early times, is not questioned; but astroscopy is no more astronomy than it is the science of electricity to watch the play of the lightning in the clouds.”

“If the signs of the times are read aright by those most skilled in such astroscopy, the Board will not long languish for the want of such medication.”

“Moreover his astroscopy convinced him that the cause of all this was the fact that, many centuries before, the hill summit had been the site of Druidic ceremonies —black magic practices with a ghastly and evil ritual.”

“The volume also contained Louis Kuhne's "Neo-naturopathy (the new science of healing)" in the first publication of the translation by Lust, and articles on electrotherapy, neuropathy, dietology, chiropractic, mechanotherapy, osteopathy, phytotherapy, apyrtropher, physical culture, optometry, hydrotherapy, orthopedics, pathology, natural healing and living, astroscopy, phrenology, and physiology—all of which were specially commissioned for the directory from practitioners and authors considered expert in these subjects.”

“Hence in Mesopotamia the priestly art of knowing the will and order of creation required a much more constant watch given to immediate phenomena than its counterpart in Egypt, and a development of numerous, very seriously studied techniques of divination was a consequence of this necessity; as, for example: hepatoscopy (examining the livers of sacrifiece beasts), oleography (judging the configurations of oil poured into water), astroscopy (an observation of the visible appearances of the stars, planets, moon, and sun, not yet, as in astrology proper, a judgment of their relative placements in the zodiac); also a judgment of meteorological conditions (cloud formations, varieties of thunder and lightning, rains, winds, earthquakes, etc.); further, an observation of the behavior of animals, the flights of birds, births of prodigies, etc.”

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