Divination, alongside religion, was probably humankind’s first tool to deal with and, in a way, “dialogue” with the unknown and the unpredictable. Little was known in those primordial times about the functioning of Nature and the Universe in general, so the concept of the world was closely linked to religions.

For example, in Europe, particularly in ancient Greece, the physician and thinker Hippocrates (between late 5th and early 4th century BC) was at the forefront of an important revolution, a milestone in the history of ideas and sciences by arguing that diseases were not caused by the punishment of the gods, as was then believed, but rather as a result of natural phenomena, worthy of study.

Although divinations initially always had, to a greater or lesser extent, a religious context, at a certain point, various divinatory and non-divinatory systems developed around premises based on the functioning of Nature and the Cosmos themselves.

This happened, for example, in Europe, with the creation of horoscopic astrology around the 1st century BC, a system that was later recovered and developed in the Middle East (Arabic, Persian, and Jewish astrology) and also influenced Hindu astrology.

Within the scope of the TimeOracle Project, we have dedicated particular attention to Western astrology, without forgetting its Greek and medieval roots, and to the Chinese Bazi system, which currently enjoys great popularity in southern China, various Asian countries, among the Chinese diaspora, and, increasingly, among Westerners.