Three or four years ago I would have said no. Now after doing a fair amount of reading in the area of ancient history I would say *probably*
Up untill around the 3rd century A.D astrology was taken very seriously by many enlightened people in the middle and far east, ( there's even evidence to suggest that the "three wise men" who attended the birth of Jesus Christ were in fact Persian astrologers - even the traditional nativety scene of J.C being born in a manger is in fact a coded reference to his real birthday of July 27th if you know how to read it
).
From the 3rd Century A.D onwards the Roman Catholic Church went to extraordinary lenghts to supress the practice of astrology so that -
"Man may never again be permitted to define his future by the stars" - Augustine - so there's little wonder there is so little of the original wisdom of the early astrologers still around today. However what has survived does IMHO form a very compelling argument to suggest that we do in fact know so very little about what makes this planet of ours really tick.