From Greek 'hōra' (hour) + 'skopos' (watcher) — literally 'one who observes the hour of birth,' a genuine ancient compound.
A forecast of a person's future based on the relative positions of the stars and planets at the time of that person's birth; a diagram of the positions of celestial bodies at a given time.
From Latin 'horoscopus,' from Greek 'hōroskopos' (one who observes the hour of birth, a nativity chart), a compound of 'hōra' (hour, season, the right time, a period) + 'skopos' (watcher, observer, one who looks), from 'skopeîn' (to look at, to examine). Greek 'hōra' derives from PIE *yeh₁r- (year, season — the cycle of time), which also gives English 'year' and Latin 'horarium.' Greek 'skopeîn' from PIE *speḱ- (to observe, to look at) yields 'scope,' 'skeptic,' 'bishop' (from *episkopos, overseer),
The word 'horoscope' and the word 'hour' share the same Greek root — 'hōra' (time, season). The same root appears in 'horizon' (the 'bounding hour' — the circle that defines the visible sky at any given time) and 'horology' (the study of time). A horoscope is literally 'looking at the hour' — the specific hour of one's birth, which astrologers believed