The Basic Working of Astrology

The Basic Working of Astrology

When the ruler X of a house A goes into another house B, X will take the "agenda" of the house A to house B.

Take analogy from the real life situation.

If you come to my house, will you forget your house? No! , You can't.

Thus X, who rules house A and goes to house B....,  means the affiars of the House B will be affected, utilized and modified by X to fullfill its role as the owner of the house A. In this X may help or obstruct the normal affairs going on in B. The environment (zodiac sign) in B may be conducive or non-conducive to the functioning of X.

When you go to a client's office (B), even if you (X) are working constructiveley at B and giving benifits to B, at the end of the day you are fulfilling the aspiration of your own business (A). Your working will depend upon many factors

* Who are you? (the basic nature of planet X)
* what is the environment (zodiac sign) in the client's office (B)
* what kind of affairs goes on in this clients office (which house number is house B )
* can you (X) be in good communication with your own office (A) - [ how many  houses is house B from A]

Think, contemplate...in this lies the whole working of Astrology

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Importance of Ascendant

Asc or Lagna = beginning of the journey of life at the time of birth...

Ascendant is the point in the ZODIAC rising in the eastern horizon when a person is born...

Sun rising in the eastern horizon => Day begins

Asc rising on the eastern horizon => life begins ( the soul gets the body)

Thus, ascendant marks the BIRTH and stores the information of the Destiny of the person who is born...

That is why the most important reference point in any horoscope is the ASC. ...which obviously becomes the (cusp of the) FIRST House...

The horoscope begins from the ASC...., without the ASC other houses are not defined, the destiny is not defined...

Thus, never ignore the ascendant and the planet that rules the ascendant...

Go beyond the SUN SIGN astrology

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Variables in Vedic Astrology

Main elements/Variables in Vedic Astrology

A ) 12 Houses

B ) 12 Signs - dividing the zodiac on the basis of the Sun's movement. Sun makes one round of the zodiac in 12 month. A sign is defined by how much Sun moves (average) in a month

C ) 27 nakshatra - dividing the zodiac on the basis of the Moon's movement. Moon makes one round of the zodiac in approximately 27 days. A nakshatra is defined by how much Moon moves (average) in a day.

D ) 9 grahas (planets)

E )  ascendant (lagna)

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Sun, Moon and Asc

Sun = Soul
Asc = body
Moon = mind

Once the birth happens...the soul is bound to the body. The body continues its journey of life as directed by the MIND (Moon)... thus we see Moon is the real driver in the journey of life in any birth. What does our mind needs to drive the body (and the soul that is bound to the body) towards the correct destination ? - ofcouse it needs knowledge. Knowledge comes from Jupiter (the guru of the devas)  or Venus (the guru of the demons)....

But ultimately who is the driver of the life's journey once the birth happens? - ofcourse mind (Moon).

That is why Vedic Astrology gives utmost importance to Moon's Nakshatra and Moon's Sign....

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Moon is Chandra

Vedic Names of Grahas ( 2nd post )

Moon = Chandra => cha (mind)+indra(king)

Moon is CHANDRA which rules the mind.

What are the traits of a real un-afflicted mind which has realised GOD ?

A man, possessing such a mind, will LOVE all without any discrimination.

An enlightened mind has no enemy. An enlightened mind is driven by pure LOVE ( not lust).

So calling moon by HIS name CHANDRA is equivalent to inviting the pure divine energy to rule our mind and fill us with the feeling of UNIVERSAL LOVE.

Sun is SURYA

Sun = SURYA => Su(good)+Arya(man)

Now who is Su+Arya ?
Obviously, a man who always upholds his DHARMA.

So when you call Sun by HIS vedic name Surya, you are praising HIM for HIS divine ability to always follow HIS dharma ( duties). So calling SUN by the name Surya is basically equivalent to activating that divine ability of Surya within you.

How many of us can always (in any cicumstance) follow our DHARMA? 

Think.... Contempalate

Vedic Names of Planets

Vedic Names of Planets (grahas)

Knowing the planets ( grahas) by their Vedic names.

Vedic names of grahas have been selected by the Ancient Sages ( rishis),  these names convey deep POSITIVE meanings about them.. so if you call a graha by its Vedic (sanskrit) name, you are actually welcoming that graha's POSITIVITY in your life...

Grahas in Vedic Astrology

Astrological planets are called GRAHAS in Vedic Astrology.

The Sanskrit word GRAHA captures the idea that these nine grahas are living energies which put out waves of energy.

These waves of energy affect our awareness. The active power of these celestial energies is to seize (grab) our consciousness when we come under their influence or to take hold of what we focus on... This is how GRAHAS affect us (in the astrological sense).

Any celestial body that has above qualities will be a GRAHA - be it a planet (mars, jupiter...etc), Star (Sun), Satellite (moon) or shadow (rahu and Ketu).

Those who understand this concept of graha can understand why Vedic Astrology prescribes MANTRA chanting to turn a graha's energy positive in our life or to strengthen the positive energies of a graha in our life.

Word "Planet" is an unfortunate translation to use for GRAHAS in astrological context.

Greeks invented the word planet to mean "that which wanders in the sky".

Sun or Moon have a very organised motion, they do not seem to  wander as seen from earth. Greeks never intented to call SUN a planet. They never intended to call either Moon a planet.

Europeans, when they borrowed knowledge from Greece and  Arab in the renaissance period, they started to use the word planet for all the celestial enties that have astrological influence on us.

Understanding Vedic Horoscope

Watch the following videos to understand the basic presentation style of Vedic Horoscopes (North Indian style)

Part -1 

In this video you, will understand that why you should learn to understand the presentation styles of Horoscope used by the practitioners of Vedic Astrology. You will also learn that how to draw a NORTH INDIAN STYLE of vedic horoscope. I have explained the fixed locations of various houses in the horoscope.

Part -2

What is a HOUSE in a horoscope? What things each House represents?

Part -3 

How a blank North Indian Horoscope is coverted from a "blank sheet of destiny" into a "specific map of destiny" of a particular person

Part -4

In this part I have shown that how the sign of the first house in a birth horoscope relates to the sign rising in the Eastern horizon at the time of birth as seen from the place of birth. I have also explained that how this information of the rising sign at the time of birth, that directly becomes the sign of the first house, also tells that the signs of the other 11 houses. Then I have also explained that how to see the entire picture of a person's life pattern in various areas of life on the basis of what signs fall in which house..

Part - 5

This is final part of "horoscope presentation style" series of my videos. In this, I have finally placed the planets in the houses as per their placements in the sky. I have also explained that how we can see interlinking between houses of a horoscope based on the planetary placements.

Part - 6

Which part of the sky correspond to the 1st H, 7th H, 10th H and 4th H of the birth horoscope ? Which houses in the horoscope correspond to the invisible half of the zodiac in the sky... and which houses correspond to the visible half of the zodiac?

Predictive Ability of Vedic Astrology

Vedic Astrology can actually predict ! It can actually help us foresee events that are likely to take place in our life. And that proves that fact that our life, to great extent, is driven by our destiny, inside which we are also given some amount of free will to optimize our life ( if we have that will power ! ) within the ambit of the destiny.The basis of Vedic or Hindu Astrology is the Karma Theory of Hindu philosophy.

In Hindu astrology,  based on the birth date, time and place of a person we prepare the Birth Horoscope of the person. This horoscope shows the positions acquired by various planets in the zodiac at the time of the birth of the person. It also shows the sign that was rising in the eastern horizon of the location of his birth at the the time when he was born.There are twelve houses in the Hindu-Astrological-Horoscope corresponding to the 12 zodiacal signs. First house is always occupied by the sign rising at the time/place of his birth ( the rising sign is often called Ascendant or Lagna ). We should try to understand that planets moving in the sky are hands of a cosmic clock that is running in the nature. And the nature causes a person to born under a particular planetary configuration ( meaning, at a particular time as measured by the cosmic clock ! )  and at a particular place to make him suffer or enjoy the fruits of his prarabdha along with other people whose prarabdhas are interlinked with his. Thus we see, in the planetary configuration present at the time of birth of a person ( along with the rising ascendant at the place of his birth when he was born) the indications about the prarabdha ( destiny, life pattern.. etc ) of that person are present. And the job of an astrologer is to read those indications from the birth horoscope of the person. The rules of reading indications about a person's life in Hindu Astrology have been developed by ancient hindu sages like Parashara, Jamini, Satyacharya, Varahmihira... etc

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Basis Of The Vedic Astrology

THE KARMA THEORY

The basis of The Hindu/Vedic Astrology is The Karma Theory of Hinduism. According to this karma theory every soul goes through a cycle of births and deaths till the time it attains salvation. In every birth, the soul gets a body to carry itself through the journey of the life of that birth. The body that the soul gets in any birth, is temporary ( exists for that one birth only, decays with time also) but the soul itself is eternal. There is an energy called Maya that binds the soul with the body to such an extent that it does not recognise its identity separate from the body . That is why, propelled by Maya, the soul spends all its energy in attaining comforts and pleasure for the body that it gets in any birth, instead of striving to attain the salvation which is its actual final destination. The Soul is energy and the body  a vehicle that it can propell. Without a body the soul is in a kind of hybernation mode, and it needs a body to manifest its activity or presence. So the soul needs to get a body ( i.e. take birth ) to strive ( to do actions ) to attain the salvation. Similarly without the soul a body is dead.

Karma means any action that the body (whose energy is the soul ) does or any thought that the soul of the body may entertain inside the mind. The responsibility of all the actions as well as all the thoughts lies in the soul that drives the body with its energy and that is the consciousness behind every thought arising inside the mind . The karma can be good or bad. And the Karma Theory says that for every karma done by the body/soul in any birth the soul has to suffer or enjoy a reaction to that karma ( karma phala , in sanskrit ). It is like - "For every Action there is a Reaction" kind of thing. And the reaction may not come instantly. Because the reaction can be delivered when the situation and circumstances permit. Because in any birth a person ( I mean the Soul ) is part of a group of persons whose lives are interlinked. So the reaction of an action done by a person may not come to him in the same birth if that will obstruct others from enjoying/suffering the reactions of their karmas that they are destined to enjoy/suffer in that birth. So the phala of a particular karma ( let us call it A)  done in one birth by the soul may be delivered to the soul in some other birth when he is born among a group of people whose karma-phala-delivery interlinks in someway with that soul receiving the karma phala of that one particular karma A. So the undelivered Karma Phala of all the karmas that a soul keeps doing in various births keeps getting accumulated. This accumulated mass of yet-undelivered-karma-phalas is called a soul's SANCHIT KARMA ( sanchit is the sanskrit word for "accumulated"). The SANCHIT KARMA is a huge stock of yet-to-be-experienced-Karmas.

WHY one can't experience all the Sanchit Karmas in one life ?

In any one birth one can't experience all of the sanchit karma - why ? - because a person (soul ) is born to live among a group of people with whom he shares his life. Experiencing the phala of a past karma ( as well as doing any new karma ) involves interacting with other people that a person meets in this life. That way both the persons experience the phala of their past karmas. Thus, interlinking of karmas of people who meet in this world  requires that a set of people whose past karmas complement each other should be found and clubbed to share their life together. Obviously, all past karmas of a person can't be accommodated in one birth because finding a group of people who share their life togther such that all their past karmas compliment each other is not easy. That is why, depending upon the kind of group that is formed for a person to share his life with, NATURE forms a suitable collection of his past karmas from his stock of entire sanchit karma at the time of his birth, which is allotted to him to experience in that birth. This collection of karmas ( created by selecting a fraction of his total sanchit karmas ) that the person is to experience in this birth is called his PRARABDH.

The Hindu Astrology believes that the planetary arrangement at the time of a person's birth indicates his PRARABDH. This planetary arrangement ( at the time of birth of the person ) is recorded in the form of his Horoscope. And when a hindu/vedic astrologer reads the horoscope, he actually tries to figure out that person's PRARABDH. This prarabdh is the person's destiny of this life which the person will have to enjoy/suffer in this birth. Astrology can not change the destiny. Astrology can only read it. And that way, through astrology, a person may be guided to make his life compatible with his destiny [ using his free will, (see below )] so that his travel through this life be as smooth as may be possible.

A person is born to experience his PRARABDH  and to strive to attain salvation. Thus he is also given some free will to act - to do new karmas. Prarabdh he can't avoid - that is his destiny. But the free will given to him, he can utilize, to do meaningful karmas that enables his soul to exhaust all his karmas fast and pave the way for its salvation.

Astrology can thus  either be used as a practical guide ( guiding you, that how you can make material gains in  life ) or it can also be used as a spiritual guide to guide you towards attaining the lasting peace. 



J.P.Sinha (Jyoti Prakash), a trained Hindu/Vedic Astrologer and
a teacher of maths and physics



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