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Hello everyone,

 

I heard some queries about Ayanamsa.

 

Here is the lowdown on Ayanamsa..

 

Cheiro's Date for the Coincidence of the movable & immovable Zodiacs

is 388 BC. Sir Simon Newcombe, Alan Leo, Cyril Fagan etc mention

different dates.

 

 

Age Cycle ( 72*30) = 2160 years

Precessional Cycle (72*360) = 25920 years

Equinoctial Cycle (2000*2160) = 43,20000 years

Cosmological Cycle ( 2 million * 2160 ) = 4.32 billion years

 

This is the Theory of Cycles as per Vedic Astronomy using 72 years per

degree precession. ( 72 years per degree is given by Cheiro. There are other

perspectives. For instance, the Sanskrit astronomical treatise, the Surya

Siddhanta gives 60 years per degree .So a precessional cycle becomes

360*60 = 21600 & an Equinoctial Cycle becomes 200 Precessional Cycles ).

 

If we go into it deeply, we will be more confused than ever.

 

The different dates given by scholars when the Sidereal and the Tropical

Zodiacs coincided

 

Lahiri = 285 AD

Raman = 398 AD

Chandra Hari = 238 AD

Davidson = 317 BC

Cheiro = 388 BC

Newcombe = 291 AD

Krishnamurthy = 291 AD

Sepharial = 498 AD

 

Since many Ayanamsa values are given, the Indian Govt in order to

standardise it adopted the following resolutions.

 

1) That all almanacs will continue to be framed on sidereal principles and

for this purpose the initial point of the Zodiac will be the point in the

ecliptic opposite the star Chitra ( Alpha Virginis ) which was the vernal

equinoctial point on the Vernal Equinox day of 285 AD. In other words, 90%

of the lakhs of astrologers in India follow Lahiri Ayanamsa ( which is round

about 23.5 degrees this year ).

 

2) The rate of precession of the Vernal Equinox may be taken as 50.3 seconds

per sidereal year.

 

Even though I have given 4 Ayanamsa options- Raman, Lahiri, Krishnamurthy

& Hari - in my software, I personally use Lahiri's Ayanamsa. ( If I use some

other Ayanamsa, I will have to fight with the 10000 odd astrologers in

Kerala) In all sidereal horoscopes the Ahargana ( the number of Kali days

elapsed ) is written. Today it is 18,63,269.

 

The Dark Age started at 3102 BC ( epoch midnight 16/17 Feb ). As per Hari's

Ayanamsa at that time The Verna Equinoctial Point was 46 degrees 40

minutes. Due to equinoctial retrogression It became 3 degrees 21 minutes on

0 AD and at 238 AD 0 degrees. ( precession 71.55 years per degree ).

 

All these values make it difficult for us to introduce Astrology as an

exact science! But then contradictory theories are part of Science.

Dr Sudarshan contradicts Einstein. Mendelbrot contradicts Laplace.

 

 

If,as the tropicalists say, the Vernal Point is in the 7th degree of Pisces

now,

then we have 7*72 = 539 years to elapse before the Aquarian age begins.

The Siderealists maintain that the Sidereal Starting Point remains to be

0 degrees Beta Arietis and that the Sidereal Zodiac doesn't change.

 

My friend Richard S Brown of www.agt-gems.com and myself are now in the

process of standardising Gemology. 9 theories about the gem to be worn

have been put forward (The Ascendant lord's gem, the ninth lord' gem,

the weakest planets' gem etc) . He will be introducing it in his cyber-

courses at GIA ( Gemological Institute of America ). Similarly we should

standardise Astrology. Integrate West and East ! The Horizontal and the

Vertical means of gaining Knoweldge. The West formidable in Science

and Technology. The East formidable in Philosophy and Astrology!

 

G Kumar

Sidereal Astrology & Yoga Expert

http://www.zodiaccomputers.com