posted July 11, 2016 10:59 PM            

I have been wondering though if those of you here who are students (or gurus) use sidereal or tropical for your vedic chart??

I transitioned from Western background because I have been told that you can't beat Vedic for it's predictive astrology

posted July 12, 2016 06:03 AM            

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Originally posted by missblyss:
check out vault of the heavens, Ernst Willhelm uses tropical with nakshatras

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Hello. Thanks for the tip! I actually just received his software as a birthday gift & with that I see the option to use sidereal or tropical. Pretty neat.

posted April 24, 2017 08:10 AM            

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Originally posted by farfaraway:
Hellos...Vedic Astrology is based on the sidereal system - defining the zodiac based on fixed constellation rather than tropical, which is based on Sun's movement around the Earth.

Here's an article that lists down all the differences between Vedic and Western Astrology: http://www.farfaraway.co/blog/vedic-astrology-vs-western

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posted July 22, 2017 09:30 PM            

Sidereal.

The astrologers mentioned who use the tropical zodiac tend to have something in common- They use a thousand explanations to explain away why their basic interpretations are not working. Listen to their videos and you will see. Very often they will find someone's chart isn't making sense or matching up with their life, so they turn to the Vargas and other tricks to try to explain this away. Don't get me wrong- I believe there is a place for the vargas, especially the D-9 chart. However they are not reliable because your varga chart changes roughly every 4 minutes. So if your time of birth is off by even a few seconds your varga charts will all be different. Guess what- as someone who's worked in various pediatric wards in various hospitals I can tell you that very few people have their correct birth time listed on their birth certificates. Nurses rarely right down the correct birth time. They often wait until after the baby is cleaned up to record it and often they round up or round up the time. For this reason, the vargas are essentially useless. And yet these astrologers who use the topical zodiac tend to be more reliant on them than any of the other astrologers. If you simply use a normal lagna chart and forget about the vargas you will get a very accurate reading even if your birth time is a few minutes off.

Another point: KRS doesn't like to call himself a professional astrologer, but he's studied it a lot AND he has interviewed with and gotten many insights from all the famous astrologers- including the ones that use topical or sidereal. After knowing them and having all their insights and information at his fingertips which system does he trust more to choose to use himself?- Sidereal.

posted May 01, 2018 07:38 AM            

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Originally posted by manderin:
I am not an expert. Having said that, here is my take so far:

Sidereal.

The astrologers mentioned who use the tropical zodiac tend to have something in common- They use a thousand explanations to explain away why their basic interpretations are not working. Listen to their videos and you will see. Very often they will find someone's chart isn't making sense or matching up with their life, so they turn to the Vargas and other tricks to try to explain this away. Don't get me wrong- I believe there is a place for the vargas, especially the D-9 chart. However they are not reliable because your varga chart changes roughly every 4 minutes. So if your time of birth is off by even a few seconds your varga charts will all be different. Guess what- as someone who's worked in various pediatric wards in various hospitals I can tell you that very few people have their correct birth time listed on their birth certificates. Nurses rarely right down the correct birth time. They often wait until after the baby is cleaned up to record it and often they round up or round up the time. For this reason, the vargas are essentially useless. And yet these astrologers who use the topical zodiac tend to be more reliant on them than any of the other astrologers. If you simply use a normal lagna chart and forget about the vargas you will get a very accurate reading even if your birth time is a few minutes off.

Another point: KRS doesn't like to call himself a professional astrologer, but he's studied it a lot AND he has interviewed with and gotten many insights from all the famous astrologers- including the ones that use topical or sidereal. After knowing them and having all their insights and information at his fingertips which system does he trust more to choose to use himself?- Sidereal.

I'm NOT saying that the astrologers using tropical are not worthy. Many of them are very knowledgeable in their own right and you can get many insights from them, but I don't find their readings to be as precise as the astrologers that use sidereal. And because of the birth time issue be very wary of astrologers that rely heavily on Varga use.

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posted May 02, 2018 11:07 PM            

Further to your post below is taken from my post on another thread,

the best book to learn jyotish for a beginner is 'LIGHT ON LIFE' specially if they have been living in the west
i had this book with me since many years and it helped me condition my mind to understand vedic philosophy which is integrated in jyotish, i posted this book to a friend of mine in scotland few months back and luckily yesterday i found a link of this book online and downloaded it onto my laptop, copy paste the below link in your browser and download the book,

this is the best book written by a foreigner on jyotish, its explained beautifully, written by canadian hart de fouw and american robert svoboda who themselves have spent years in india studying various branches of vedic philosophy names ayurveda/jyotish etc from gurus

read this book over a period of time, reach one chapter at a time, come back to the same chapter again after a while, start reading charts with the jagannath hora software which u can download from the link given below and map the chapters to the charts you study

Copy paste below link in your browser to download the book
https://ia800408.us.archive.org/8/items/LightOnLifeAnIntroductionToTheAstrologyOfIndiaHardDeFouwAndRobertSvoboda/Light%20on%20life%20An%20Introduction%20to%20the%20Astrology%20of%2 0India%20-%20Hard%20de%20Fouw%20and%20Robert%20Svoboda.pdf

jagannath hora software- http://www.vedicastrologer.org/jh/

jyotish is the right word, instead of vedic astrology, you will understand why when you read this book, vedic astrology is a term used in the western world but we call it jyotish

any doubts pls ask

Anekk

posted May 04, 2018 12:41 AM            

Nothing comes up for your link in USA?

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Tried a different way...
Got it!!!!

https://archive.org/details/LightOnLifeAnIntroductionToTheAstrologyOfIndiaHardDeFouwAndRobertSvoboda

- http://archive.org/details/LightOnLifeAnIntroductionToTheAstrologyOfIndiaHa rdDeFouwAndRobertSvoboda

{big thank you! }

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Got the software installed in my computer now.
Under the different tabs, there is even more manuals (and links to youtubes) available.

- http://www.vedicastrologer.org/classes/

This is like ~Christmas!!!! LOL