27 Vedic Astrology Or Western Astrology

Vedic astrology comes from traditional indianhindu texts. Western astrology does consider them when casting a horoscope.

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Vedic astrology has been practiced for many thousands of years.

Vedic astrology or western astrology. Western astrology emphasizes the psychological nature of the individual but lacks reliability for predicting future cycles and events. This type of astrology is written about in the first known written books which date back 5000 to 8000 years ago. As for western astrology it works on a movable zodiac.

Vedic astrology uses sidereal astrology a system which places the beginning of the astrological year at the beginning of the aries constellation. Although vedic astrology also defines a persons psychological nature it gives more focus to understanding when certain events are likely to take place. This system is based on the orientation of earth to sun.

What vedic astrologers do give a major importance to which does not happen in the western system is the two intersection points of the orbits of the moon and the earth. It is also called sidereal zodiac. The vedic astrology system is about a fixed zodiac with a certain nakshatra planet in the background.

Thus vedic astrology is pious and antique and believed to be the word of god passed on to the wise people in the past. An introduction to the western astrology. What makes this astrology unique and accessible at the same time.

In 2005 i wrote an article called approaching jyotish. Well one of the reasons for its popularity is the fact that it is simple to understand. Thus western astrology is an outcome of the evolved intellectuality and exploration of the european mind.

There are many differences between vedic astrology and the more commonly known system practiced here in the west tropical astrology also known as western astrology. This is the type of horoscopes that are accepted globally. The western astrology stands as one of the most popular astrology.

On the other hand western astrology can be traced back to the life and intellectual development in ancient greece. Western astrology is also influenced by the egyptian civilisation. The differences between western vedic astrology an introduction by hank friedman note.

A comparison of western and vedic astrology which was oriented towards helping the western astrologer to begin to approach vedic astrologyi highly recommend that you read it as its content complements that of this article. Because it is in these two mathematical points that eclipses occur they are consider of great importance.

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