Ptolemy wrote the Tetrabiblos in the second century, effectively creating the foundational textbook that almost all modern western astrology is still based upon today.

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Ptolemy wrote the Tetrabiblos in the second century, effectively creating the foundational textbook that almost all modern western astrology is still based upon today. This means that when you pay a modern mystic seventy-five dollars to read your birth chart over a Zoom call, they are utilizing an interpretative framework established by a guy who firmly believed that the sun revolved around the Earth. It requires a truly staggering amount of cognitive dissonance to rely on medical and astronomical theories from the year one hundred and fifty to make serious decisions about your modern career trajectory and dating life, especially considering Ptolemy's other scientific contributions have been entirely debunked for over half a millennium. You wouldn't use a second-century Roman text to fix your internet router or treat a bacterial infection, but apparently it is the absolute gold standard for figuring out why you possess an intense fear of commitment