How did western sidereal astrology come to the West?
This is explained in great detail in lesson two of the Western Sidereal Astrology Foundation Course. In a nutshell, when the Near and Middle East were excavated during the 19th century, scholars discovered that almost all the astronomical material found there was sidereal. By the 1870 s, after Akkadian, the language of ancient Babylon, had been deciphered to a significant extent, this material was published in a variety of academic journals. In the mid 20th century, an Irish astrological scholar by the name of Cyril Fagan discovered this material. After many years of private study, Fagan, a long-time tropicalist, was forced to conclude that astrology was originally sidereal in the ancient world until the Greeks decided to use the equinoxes and solstices to reckon celestial positions, probably around the time of Hipparchus of Rhodes. Fagan is often called the father of western sidereal astrology. He wrote a monthly column on the subject in American Astrology magazine from 1953 until his
