Can someone please look into this beginner-level doubt?

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Respected Gaurangji,

 

This example of a round-walled room with 12 paintings is just great ! Please

allow me to use it in my next class.

 

Pranaams.

 

Deepak

 

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Gauranga Das <gauranga

<vedic astrology>

Friday, December 14, 2001 6:07 PM

[sjvc] Re: [vedic astrology] Can someone please look into this

beginner-level doubt?

 

 

> JAYA JAGANNATHA!

>

> Dear Ramapriya,

>

> Namaste.

>

>

> > Hi all! As you might recall, I've only recently started taking my

> > first steps in learning astrology. I have a very elementary kinda

> > doubt right now.

> >

> > I know that the Mo, Sa, Ju, Ma, Me, Ve, Ra and Ke all revolve. Mo, Ra

> > and Ke revolve around the earth and the rest around the Su, which is

> > why they change zodiacal signs at specified periods. What amazes me

> > is why the Su changes signs too, once a month! As I can perceive

> > (which isn't a lot), this can be for one of two reasons:

> >

> > a. The solar system itself is in motion (likely, but not likely that

> > it completes a revolution in one year)

> > b. This movement of the Sun across the zodiacal signs is relative to

> > the Earth's revolution around it, since the Earth's motion isn't

> > directly considered in casting and analyzing horoscopes. Since the

> > zodiac is fixed and the earth revolves around the sun in 365.25 days,

> > the Sun appears to move thru all the signs. Gosh, I realize that such

> > hypotheses could appear downright hilarious to most of you.

> >

> > Could some of the many, many luminaries in this group spare 10 min

> > for a little explanation? Please excuse me, but I can't do anything

> > about my obtuseness (Me is just 1 degree away from the Su and retro

> > too in my chart)

>

> The above combination mentioned by you is Buddhaditya yoga, and even

Mercury

> is not combust because of retrogression. So if this combination influences

> the 5th house in Rasi, Navamsa or Siddhamsa by ocupying or aspecting it,

> then you will have a brilliant intellect.

>

> Apart from this, let's come to your question. Vedic cosmology is quite an

> intricate science, as we, earthly people have one way of seeing things,

and

> the residents of the higher planetary systems, the Rishish and Devas have

> another, much broader vision. So if we explain things according to their

> vision, it will substantially differ from what we can perceive from here

> (both with our senses and their extensions, i.e. research equipment like

> telescopes etc.). This is whiy the Bhagavata Purana's statements about the

> structure of the universe are not always easy to tally with the findings

of

> the modern science, although theyb represent the highest truth.

>

> So from the practical point of view, my suggestion is that we should stick

> with our perception, i.e. geocentric point of view, as in actuality we are

> observing the movements of the planets and the zodiac from the surface of

> the Earth, and exactly this is what we will be using for the construction

of

> our astrological chart. Let me say an example. Sometimes we might have a

> very close conjunction of even 5-6 planets in the zodiac. But what does

this

> mean? It means that from our point of view all of them are close to that

> part of the sky. But the same conjuncrtion, if viewed from the Sun or the

> Moon, would not be a conjunction at all. Thus in astrology it's the best

to

> follow the movements of the planets from a geocentric point of view.

>

> Of course in this view the Sun will rotate around the Earth, which is the

> same as the Earth rotating around the Sun and spinning around its axis.

This

> spinning will bring the dailiy motion of the Sun over the horizons, as

well

> as that of the zodiac itself, which we usually term as the movement of the

> Lagna. On the other hand, the yearly movement of the Sun in the zodiac

would

> be the same as the Earth's one year circle around the Sun, during which

the

> Sun wuill appear before the background of each Rasi respectively. Let me

> give an illustrative example of this.

>

> You are in a room with round walls, which have 12 paintings on them. and

> there's someone standing in the middle of the room. If you go around the

> person in a circle, always watching him, you will see all the 12 pictures

> appear behind the person. If you at the same time rotate around your own

> axis, you will sometime see him, and sometimes not. But you will perceive

> the same thing if you stand in the middle of the room, and the other

person

> makes a circle around you. You will always see him passing in front of

> another picture. If at the same time you would rotate around your own axis

> in the opposite direction, you would sometimes see the other person, and

> sometimes not. Actually, if we would introduce other actors in the play,

> some rotationg around me and some around the other person, we would get

the

> replica of the movements of the planets.

>

> I hope that this helps.

>

> Yours,

>

> Gauranga Das Vedic Astrologer

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