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The Babylonians were polytheistic and believed in multiple gods that had different purposes.The Patron God of Babylon was Marduk, and this god was recognized in Babylonian astrology as the planet Jupiter Marduk was recognized as the most powerful god, but not the one and only god. The Babylonians believed in many gods with different purposes and they associated certain gods to certain planets.

The Babylonians used horoscopic astrology. By observing the seasonal movement of the sun, moon, and planets, the Babylonians connected their beliefs of divine intervention in their everyday life to space and time. This means that they would forecast their future circumstances by observing space through time and relating ominous events, such as a lunar eclipses, to social, political, and environmental problems in aspects of their everyday lives, such as giving birth to deformed children. This means that the Babylonians believed their gods' activities and influences effected the circumstances in their own lives. These celestial events were viewed by the Babylonians as divine intervention in their lives and it shows how they believed that the gods influenced the sun, moon, and planets to influence circumstances in their life, and to communicate to the people when bad or good events were going to occur. Horoscopic astrology is significant to Babylonian beliefs, because associating the sun, moon, and planets with their gods shaped the way the Babylonians lived their lives and viewed the world around them. The parallels between horoscopes and nativity omens from a Seleucid Tablet shows the benefic and malefic natures of the planets in Babylonian astrology. This means that Babylonians associated and created their beliefs around planets based on the nature of the god associated with it.

''The Babylonians divided the fixed stars into three groups: the stars of Anu, Enlil and Ea.' To which group they belonged depended, for most of them, on where they rose on the Eastern horizon. The horizon was divided into the Paths of Anu, Enlil and Ea.'' This gives reference to which gods the Babylonian astrologers associated  to regions of the sky or space, and is an example of how the gods were associated with the stars and planets.