Yesterday i learned that there's a whole millennia-long debate about astrology in judaism and one of the positions is "astrology is true for everyone except jews because god gives jews more free will" and this is my new headcanon now

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Western astrology comes from babylonia and the Jews picked it up when they were exiled there.

One of the main things Jews were known for during the roman empire was their proficiency in a astrology and a demand for that causes them to spread out to urban centers across the old world long before the temple was destroyed.

Clearly astrology didn't do them much good or they might have forseen that coming.

Maybe that's why they stopped believing in it and medieval Jews mostly got other jobs.