Disservice to Astrology

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends ,

I just watched the interview of Mr. K. N. Rao on the TV . He discussed the

upcoming eclipse . I know Mr. Rao to be an astrologer of repute , have read

many of his books and have personal respect for him . Still I feel that he

did disservice to astrology in giving this interview , where he made

categorical statement that the eclipse did not do any harm to pregnant women

and had no effect on the offspring .

 

He put forth a view that moving around outside at the time of the eclipse

was not at all harmful to the pregnant women or the child they carried . He

went on to say that even birth during eclipse was not bad . Further he

alleged that as there would be 9 to 10 eclipses every year , every pregnant

woman would at some time or other would be exposed to eclipse rays and as

they did not all give birth to deformed children so eclipse time birth was

no problem .

 

Faulty logic , wrong examples ,and confused generalization !

 

There is a child born who hardly gets to see his father , because his father

and mother do not get along well and are separated for all practical

purposes , his mother is too busy to take proper care of him due to her work

pressures , he grows up and pursues a career of his liking but has to cut

short his career to take up family business reluctantly , his younger

brother dies in an accident , his mother is dies in gunfire , and he himself

is blown to pieces in a bomb explosion - do you call that a lucky horoscope

? Mr. Rao did that . He gave this as an example of lucky chart . The chart

of late Rajiv Gandhi who was born exact one month after eclipse .

 

Mr. Rao said that he had innumerable cases of children born during eclipses

having had no misfortunes or problems in life . We ll , he has not published

his study and how many does he mean by innumerable is subject to debate .

Question mark .

 

He exaggerated the number of eclipses each year . All eclipses are not seen

from all parts of the earth . So not even are mentioned in the almanac . If

you see the past three years record you will see that a large portion of the

world remained outside the eclipse belt almost all the time .

 

Lastly we keep talking about variety of yogas in Jyotish . We say that a

planet gets combust a certain degrees away from the sun and attribute so

many qualities to such a situation and then when moon and sun are exactly

conjoint , Mr. Rao says that there are no effects ! Faulty logic ?

 

Sorry Mr. Rao can't buy your conjectures this time around

 

 

Regards ,

 

Anand

 

A. K. Ghurye