Study of Horoscope in the Persian Poetry

A part of Zodiac is called horoscope which rises in the eastern horizon at the time of examination, birth or acting. In the early periods, the astronomers were attempting to extract the horoscope of any task in order to judge or predict about them; dividing it into twelve parts and were calling these parts “the houses of horoscope” and determining the position of each planet in the houses, for each task were set a horoscope. Then, according to the positions of the planets in the constellation and their positions in the houses of horoscope, concluding that which task is fortune or misfortune. This paper wishes to investigate the topic in question and to explain a few verses of poets.