Concerning the Issue of the Need for Modernity in Vedic Astrology...

[Guest guest]

Interesting what you say about Vedic Astrology. Every old institution has old

and out of date approaches to the modern world, but the insights into the

science only have to be expresed anew and maybe more insights added.

Traditional Vedic Astrology by its firmly closed family or parampara

transmission methods has preserved its ignorance along with its knowledge. So

it needs to wake up to todays world. But modern western astrology is largely

obsessed with petty and imaginary egocentric issues, such as the Ben Affleck

one you just described, which traditional Vedic has almost never succumbed to.

If you want an astrology that addresses only adolescent Kali Yuga concerns then

you can dive into the imaginary world being created out there, or you can remain

with the wise teaching of ages that will not change over the centuries.

Your correspondent Chandrasekhar hit the nail on the head when he spoke of the

need to understand the rationale behind the science.

Regards

Gordon

[Guest guest]

Hi Chandrashekhar,

 

Thanks for responding to my initial post on this

topic. However, I must maintain my premise.

 

Far too many Vedic Astrologers, or students, spend

entirely too much time keeping their noses in old

books, instead of breathing new life into Vedic

Astrology. For example, take the combination known as

the Kala Sarpa Yoga. I cannot tell you how many VA's

have absolutely no idea what that means TODAY, in the

modern, post 20th century Western World.

 

Here's another - Kuja Dosha. There's a topic that is

sure to get many a Vedic Astrologer hopping, but so

few have no idea again, how to apply that to today's

times and climes. There are many other areas of Vedic

Astrology that poses problems, but I trust you see my

point.

 

While computer strength and speed have caught up with

the sophistication of Vedic Astrology, its updating in

terms of modernity in the Western World has not. Lists

such as this one proves that everyday and every night.

 

 

For the past 4 years, I have worked very hard to bring

Vedic Astrology up to date, to have it "get with the

times", and bring it out of the ancient past of India.

So much of what I discussed here and elsewhere in the

internet forum Vedic Astrological world has so little

to do with what is going on NOW and so much to do

with, what this old rule and that ancient rule means.

While it certainly is profitable to learn and get a

grasp of the basics and the classics out of which they

come, it does none of us any good to cling to the

insights that were gleaned over 1,000 years ago.

Before anyone thinks I want to throw the baby out with

the bath water, please let me be clear. What I'm

saying is, that Vedic Astrology has to go the way of

Modern Western Astrology, that is to say, that it has

to drop its fatalistic tonality and embracethe

changning winds of the Modern World, if it is to be

meaningful, if it is to survive.

 

I think this is one of the cheif reasons why Vedic

Astrology has seen some of its biggest growth OUTSIDE

OF INDIA. Differing perspectives on a thing can only

help that thing get stronger.

 

Hart deFouw, a noted Canadian Jyotishi, has laid out

all of these thoughts and more in a beautifully

written chapter in the anthology by Weiser Books,

"Eastern Systems for Western Astrologers". His chpater

is called, "The Humanism of Vedic Astrology", and I

consider it required reading for anyone that is

serious about what it is that I'm talking about in

this email concerning Vedic Astrology.

 

Lastly, when was the last time that an analysis has

appeared here or any other Vedic Astrological forum,

of a horoscope, that was insightful, meaningful,

sensitive? Not merely an "you are this, you are that"

"reading", but a careful and pointed analysis of

potentials that the Vedic Astrological horoscope

represents? I for one have seen many, many charts

discussed in the ways I described in the former. It is

rare to see it discussed in the latter.

 

Consider if you will, the horoscope of the famous

actor Ben Affleck (Aug 15, 1972, 2:53am PDT, Berkley,

CA, USA; Vedic Asc, Lahiri, 15 Gem 05). How could we

use the wonderous, ancient Science of Light in such a

way that recognized Affleck's humanity, that was

sensitive to his current circumstance with regards to

his romantic involvement with actress Jeniffer Lopez?

Do we fashion a sensitive, meaningful analysis and

enter into a discussion with Affleck - or, do we

launch into a one-sided, "performance" style

"reading", a throwback to another time, in another

place?

 

This, I leave to you, and all others reading this, to

answer. In due course, I will offer my musings on Mr.

Affleck's horoscope.

 

Comments, Please...

 

Salaam,

Mu'Min

 

 

 

--- Chandrashekhar <boxdel wrote:

> Dear Mu,

> I do not think that there is any lethargy or culture

> shock towards modernity with respect to Vedic

> Astrology per-se.It is the practitioners who try to

> give it that image.

> The reason is a tendency to try to use too many

> systems within the VA without studying the

> underlying rationale behind the science.

> It is not that the descriptions do not hold up in

> modern times but that those who inter prete the

> charts are the basic tenet of applying the science

> on the bassis of the Country, customs,Times and

> other variables ,which is to be applied to

> predictions.

> Chandrashekhar.

 

 

=====

Mu'Min M. Bey

Western and Vedic Astrologer

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