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Dear Friends:

September 7, 2004

 

 

Have been working on my new web site, coming out soon, and thought you all,

might like receiving some of my Jyotish/Articles, that'll be part of the new

site.

 

This one's about the "Philosophy of Astrology; Past, Present & Future."

 

I used to say, I learned the most Astrology/Jyotish, when I started studying

the daily Transits. Hence, my Star reports!

 

But, recently I've realized I've learned even more in trying to describe and

teach Astrology to others.

 

So, this Philosophy of Astrology came to me as an important 'idea', because

there is something very precious and profound happening in the entire field

of Jyotish/Astrology today, and the cool part is that we 'all' are an

important part of that change!

 

In the Past, Astrology was an interesting mix of Astronomy and Astrology,

alike. In both the West and East, when people looked at the Stars, not only

were they trying to figure out the meanings of the Stars, but they were also

trying to physically track their movements as well.

 

Nobody really knows how the knowledge of Astrology developed, whether it

spread from the East, or spread from the West, however there is one

interesting aspect of Jyotish which I find credible.

 

In the East, especially in regards to the so-called, 'Vedic Knowledge',

there is the concept of 'cognition'.

 

In fact, all of the 'hymns' of the Ved, which are the source of all the

Knowledge and Philosophies of Ved, are supposed to come from personal

'cognitions' of individual 'Seers'.

 

I find this especially fascinating because of my meditative, consciousness

background. I can easily understand how one could directly, 'cognize',

different aspects of Life's Knowledge, through one's own Consciousness.

 

JYOTISH, is supposed to be one such cognition. Not that people only looked

up at the stars, and formulated the rules, but that they looked within

themselves and directly discovered them, inside, like laws of nature.

 

In the Present; we live in such a fascinating time of Jyotish & Astrology.

Astrology has been practiced now, for many hundreds and even thousands of

years in the West, and even more years, perhaps in the East; but there's

this incredible, 'blending' going on now, between the 2 main branches of

Astrology that I especially find amazing!

 

First of all, I find it interesting that both systems agree on much of the

basics of Astrology and even the Astrology chart.

 

o #1, both believe that the Astrology chart is an accurate snap-shot into

the inner workings, even the soul of anyone being born on the Earth.

 

This central idea, itself, I've realized is one of the most fascinating

aspects of Astrology, ever!

 

Those of us, who are more 'in-to' Astrology kind of take this for granted,

and those who have had their 'charts' 'done', and have had a number of

Jyotish or Astrology, 'ahas', about themselves, easily can relate to this

profound realization!

 

In fact, in my new Jyotish book, this is the primary lst theme of the book.I

call it the '1 to 1 Correspondence'; that there exists an amazing 1 to 1

correlation between all the details of one's life, Physiology, Personality,

Psychology, Relationship, Tendencies, Qualities, Strengths & Weaknesses, and

all the details of one's Astrological Chart!

 

This 'realization' itself, I believe, will be heralded in the future as a

very profound Wisdom of Astrology and eventually cherished, by many more

millions of people.

 

So, there are these fascinating similarities between the two Astrologys,

Western & Eastern, but there's also this incredible 'blending' going on

between the two systems, as well.

 

When I first started studying Jyotish, over 16 years ago, now, there was not

much of this 'blending' going on, yet.

 

If you picked up a Western book, there was a decidedly 'Westernized' quality

to it, and when you picked up an Eastern one, there was this uniquely

'Eastern' quality, there as well.

 

The Western books were much more Psychological in their analysis, whereas

the Eastern books, very much more slanted towards, 'fate', and a kind of

intense 'negativity' that I found surprising.

 

Then something happened that I think very dramatically reflected that innate

'blending' that was going on. Many Westerners, even Western Astrologers,

who were discovering Jyotish, began to write about it for Western audiences.

 

Who can forget the now, famous, James Braha book called "Ancient Hindu

Astrology for the Modern Western Astrologer". In this book, he was very

accurate in being able to describe all the fascinating rules and principles

of Jyotish. However, there was not the intensely fatalistic or negative

qualities of previous Eastern Astrology books.

 

Other Westerners quickly followed like David Frawley in his "Astrology of

the Seers", and Hart Defouw and Robert Svoboda, in their book: "Light on

Life, an Introduction to the Astrology of India."

 

Now, I realize there has occurred this amazing 'blending' of the perhaps,

the 'best' of both the Western & Eastern traditions.

 

In the East, there are these profound understandings about how Astrology

works, and especially the Predictive capabilities, called the Dasa programs

which can predict what the qualities of the future will be like. This

unique aspect of Eastern Astrology has had a decidedly powerful effect on

many Western Astrologers which have found this Principle to be very charming

in it's simplicity and profundity.

 

>From the Western system, perhaps, coming from the Western mind, or

'Experience', there has been also this dramatic 'blending' of the Western

belief in free will, change and transformation.

 

Westerners believe that we can 'change' our futures, in fact, the whole

History of migration from Europe to the Americas, over the last 200 years,

has been a complete 'transformation' from the stodgy beliefs of the past,

into a more bright hopefulness of change in the future.

 

Today, now, we begin to see people referring to a kind of equal marriage

between freedom and determinism. In the old days, of the Eastern books, for

example; there would be 195 pages on all the different aspects of the

Jyotish, and then, tacked on at the end, like a kind of after thought, would

be only 5 pages of 'Remedial Measures'.

 

Now, we're much more apt, to see a more balanced 'blending' between the

rules and formulas of the Astrological Principles, and the transformative,

and powerful healing and remedial technologies, that to me, are truely at

the very heart of 'True' Astrology.

 

In the Future, we'll discover a profound marriage of the powerful predictive

capabilities of Astrology and the ever-important, Principles and practical

Prescriptions of the Transformation and Remedial Measures.

 

 

Astrology Today and in the Future.

 

Today, I'm very happy to be involved in this process of taking the best of

the Western and the Eastern systems.

 

I find it especially fascinating, to discover, in the daily Transits, an

amazing 'verification' of the power and Principles of Jyotish.

 

One of the first times this happened, I was watching the Moon move into the

same sign as Saturn. I knew the Astrological idea that this 'conjunction'

would reflect a kind of depressing, loss quality coming from Saturn, so it

was not too surprising to find that also, was my experience.

 

Then, however, I noticed that when the Moon moved, immediately to the next

Sign, that 'Saturnish', quality quickly dissipated. Then, a few days later,

I forgot actually, but the Moon moved into the next Sign, and all of a

sudden I again, felt those Saturnish qualities, coming back. I felt kind of

sad, confused, and even kind of ill.

 

Then I remembered the Principle. 'Oh, right, the 3rd House aspect of

Saturn!' Then, I got it. 'Oh, my god, we can experience and verify these

Principles of Jyotish within ourselves as well as out there, in the

environments of Nature!'....

 

That was the beginning of a huge shift in Jyotish & Astrology for me.

 

Now only did Jyotish work, but it was meant to be combined with a more

practical, and transformative, hopeful Astrology like of the West, to

produce or reflect the 'true' Astrology of Nature.

 

In that 'true' Astrology, even the Principles of Western Science, meaning

testing, and validating, can be utilized to show oneself that these ideas

and Principles do, in fact, work.

 

 

Nature's Astrology. This is why I came up with this name: Nature's

Astrology, to try and give expression to the need of combining the 'best' of

both the Western and Eastern systems.

 

As it turns out, it is already existing 'there' in Nature, herself, and

therefore is not an idea, really, but an expression of what is real and

profound, 'out there'.

 

This means that what is true in Nature, as well as what is true, within

ourselves, can be verified and validated, by even the practical tools of

modern Western science.

 

Think about it, any of the ideas and Principles of Jyotish can be easily

verifiable.

 

Take the Moon for example. The Moon is supposed to be a reflection of the

emotional strength or maturity within every person. The size, and the

'quality' of the Moon, in one's Chart, is supposed to be a reflection of the

emotional power of every person.

 

Well, take a 1,000 people, then, go through the phone book, even, and ask

them a simple battery of questions determined to discover the emotional

strength within, and then, correlate to their Jyotish charts. We'll

discover an extremely high correlation between their emotional strengths,

and the strengths or positives of their Moon's on the day of their births.

 

Like that, every Principle of Jyotish can and should be studied, and

eventually verified even by modern science.

 

We live in the times of modern science. To me, I believe, God created this

scientific age so we could have some system of analysis, where we could find

out which theories or ideas were really true.

 

Try to remember what it was like, pre-science. There were those who would

argue whether the Earth was round or flat. Some even said, the Earth was

the center of the Universe. Well the emergence of modern science put a

crushing blow to all that 'ignorance'.

 

Now, we know that the World is round and the Earth is but a small planet,

circling a rather small, insignificant Sun/Star towards the end of a galaxy,

which we call the Milky Way, which in it's turn, is only 1 of more then 100

billion other galaxies, which make up our 'known' Universe.

 

But, to dismiss all of Astrology as some ancient, superstitious, kind of

quackery, would be a great loss, because there is a great knowledge that is

there, within Astrology.

 

It's about the real 'whys' of our existence. And even, though, modern

Western Psychology has not discovered much of the true purpose of the modern

day Psychology or 'minds' of individuals; Ancient Jyotish, could in fact be

called Vedic Psychology as it contains the Wisdoms, of not only what the

individual minds and personalities will be like according to their births,

but, also be able to link our individual minds and selves to the Cosmic

Mind, and Self of the Universe which as it turns out is one of the truest

purposes of Human life; to discover the Self of the Universe, within.

 

In the Future; we'll look back and realize that this was the beginning of a

true Consciousness shift in Astrology. And with the true, advent of

applying the Principles of the unfoldment of Consciousness, to Astrology, we

will have truely discovered the true purpose of each one of our individual

Astrologys.

 

 

Next, in our very next 'futures', I will describe all the practical aspects

and programs and courses of 'Starlight Unlimited', and connect all these

'tools' with the broader Philosophy and Principles of this new, emerging,

'Nature's Astrology.

 

 

I'd also like to thank all of you, for participating and contributing to my

own Jyotish/Astrology and to also, this new field of Consciousness Astrology

which

is not only having a profound influence on ourselves but will also have such

an influence upon our entire Human race!

 

 

Jai Guru!

 

 

 

Mark Kincaid