benjaminccollins wrote: >--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Couldn't agree more. I really want jyotish to be >>accurate, but its predictions are usually so vague and >>general that they have no meaning. Might as well read >>sheep entrails! >> >> > >Indeed you are correct. But that is, IMHO, the great strength of jyotish. >The language of >jyotish is one of symbolism and as such it is highly accurate for describing >trends in an >individual's life experience. The planets are archetypes and represent >different aspects of >the individual's life...mercury is the intellect, moon the emotions, etc. > >By looking at the birth chart, you can have a good idea of what the person's >life experience >is in general. By contrasting that with the position of the planets in the >sky at any given >time, you can see what is happening in their life. > >I often explain jyotish as being like predicting the weather. Good weather is >coming...plan >a picnic. You can tell what sort of activities are going to be supported by >the trend of >events. Then the person has the strength of that knowledge without feeling >that >everything is predestined. The loss of free will or innocense that results >from highly >specific predictions is, in my opinion, unfortunate. While it is possible to >make very >specific predictions, I question their value. Not to mention the damage that >it does to a >person's emotional health when something bad is predicted inaccurately. > >On a larger scale, predicting the fate of nations is very very difficult and >probably more of >an intellectual curiosity than anything else. But one can make a broad >statement that with >the connection of 3 highly malefic planets (Mars/Saturn/Ketu) a certain amount >of poo will >be hitting the fan. And this situation will persist in one variation or >another for the next >18 months, so you can be pretty confident that these symbols will play >themselves out in >one form or another. Terrorist events, natural disasters, and general >troubles will be >prevalent, particularly after Jupiter changes signs this fall. > > > Yes, I've always looked at the readings like weather reports but always seems to be this group that think that every little action is choreographed by the stars! :) The "general" trends can be pretty informative and are not so "general" that if you change the ascendant will match the life events of the person. That kind of blows the "Amazing Randis" of the world theses all to hell (but Randi seems to work off extremely general sun sign newspaper horoscopes anyway).
Once a friend who is an Indian astrologer when pummeled by a group about nakshatra questions told them "most astrologers in India use very simple techniques." This group was prone to getting hung up on the "icing" missing "the cake" and of course could still not read a chart very well. The good thing that Choudhry has done is throw out the silly memorization of tons of sutras regarding jyotish which makes it difficult to learn and distill the underlying principals to simple rules which are easy to learn. If you know the rules and go back to reading the sutras you can then see how they were derived. The US chart has always been difficult because of the lack of information of when the country was actually formed. Many took July 4th, 1776 but actually the Declaration of Independence was signed on the 2nd and celebrated on the 4th because it took two days to get the news published and distributed. Charts that seem to show the trends may be harmonics of the original event. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
