532: astronomy versus Astrology May 23, 2016

Of the similar words 'astronomy' and 'astrology', one was created just to mean 'study of stars' but be distinct from the other. 'Astrology', the older of the two, denotes the practice of 'astronomy', in that it was used for predicting natural happenings and other such things, but it later took the meaning of the use of the stars to predict human-behavior and other more spiritual things. Such that the exact science may be more distinct from the other practices, people came up with 'astronomy' which comes from the Greek for ‘star-arranging’.