Chakras and Astrology

[Guest guest]

Dear Karen

As someone pointed out the relationship between Astrology & Ayurveda

got severed a long time a go! I'm still trying to see the connection my

self. I think it's important and probably the last stage to the first

initial cause, out side of the obvious karmametic repercussions. I have

a tendency to follow Farawley's thought process because I respect all

his other work, but as you pointed out there is still a lot of different

opinions on this topic. I my self have in using my self as a guinea pig

may have caused more problems then cure! On the other hand there is a

saying about the road to health, its like pealing back the layers of an

onion. You no sooner get rid of one problem and another arises. Meher

Baba refers to it as the winding and unwinding, and god knows I did a

lot of winding in LA. back in the 60s. I've come a long way since then

and I'm very very good at tolerating my own suffering to a fault. My

main focus is on finding the answers to help other people to much so

that I have a tendency to not take care of my self! but I'm trying to

correct that in me. As for my studies, after watching my mother die of

cancer; and studying the western way; and releasing that mortal man

can't fathom 6 to 7 billion chemical reactions in the body every second:

knowing that there had to be an answer [ seek and ye shell find ] it

finally lead me to Ayurveda. I would love to write more but I must leave

for work. Bless you...........Noel

[Guest guest]

sattva wrote:

> Dear Karen

> As someone pointed out the relationship between Astrology & Ayurveda

> got severed a long time a go!

 

Dear Noel/Karen,

 

The relationship did not get broken off suddenly, but times changed and

astrologers could not help the doctors! The two sciences could not keep in step.

The discovery of new herbs etc made the association of herb and planets

difficult to determine. Also loss of information and needs of civilization.

 

Nadi readings often give cures for chronic illnesses. For me it was: sitting in

a trough made of some special wood, filled with a decoction of some herbs, six

hours every day for 6 months! Even if we could identify the wood and the herbs,

how could I do the sitting as a wage-earner?

 

Differences in planetary associations is also a problem. Some were "revealed",

some established empirically, some just presumed.

 

One wonders about the enormous knowledge of ancient Indian and Chinese doctors.

My question is: what made those civilizations so sick that this knowledge could

be acquired at all - and was necessary? Amerindians got by with a handful of

herbs, and judging by their wrinkles, apparently lived long healthy lives. As

also the apricot eaters in the Himalayas.

 

regards

Mani