The idea of ​​connecting the “state of the Cosmos” to the moment of a person’s birth (or entity) is something found both in Chinese tradition and in Western/European tradition.

On the Chinese side, the idea is formalized through the concept of “Resonance or Interaction between Cosmos and Humans” (Tianrenganying 天人感应), from the Han Dynasty, although its roots are earlier than that time. Humans and the Universe influence each other (or operate in harmony), hence the sacred importance of the actions of the Emperor (the “Son of Heaven,” or of Nature, Tianzi 天子), since errors made in these actions may be linked with the occurrence of “reactions” from Heaven/Nature (Tian 天), such as storms and other catastrophes.

On the Western side, many researchers relate the emergence of “horoscopic astrology” with the Greek concept of sympatheia (συμπάθεια), developed by the Stoic philosophers, approximately between the 3rd century BC and 3rd century AD. For this philosophical school, the Universe/Cosmos as a whole operates in an organic way, as if it were a living being, in which the different parts of its “body” relate in unison.

More recently, this idea of ​​the effect of sympathy between different levels of reality gained some public prominence with the creation of the concept of “synchronicity,” to signify the possibility of a non-causal, although effective, relationship between different levels of reality.

This idea resulted from the collaboration between the Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist Carl Jung and the Nobel Prize in Physics (1945) Wolfgang Pauli.