Guest guest Posted July 29, 2004 Report Share Posted July 29, 2004 Dear Hanya Shingyo, Could you please throw some light on Japanese Astrology . Inder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 29, 2004 Report Share Posted July 29, 2004 Dear Inder, Japanese Tradition of astrology is influenced by Chinese astrology and is of many types like Tarrot, Uranai, seiseijutsu..etc Most of the Japanese are afraid of astrology thinking it to be a kind of black magic because of astrologers here. Most of the times, here astrologer is mistaken to be a psychic healer or a fortune teller and usually remedies are not there. However there is an influence of Buddhism in classical way showing a vedic feature in Japanese fortune telling. Its called Omikuji or something like ramacharitamanas prashnavali, where in the bamboo sticks are numbered and mixed well and put into a holder- a bamboo cylinder and any one stick is drawn at random to identify the number and the Buddhist priest gives you the explaination even in printed format now. Most probably, each no is related to a tale of Jataka/Chinese/Japanese Buddist story and the result is drawn according to the story.Usually these are kept at Buddhist temples or O-tera. It is usually done on auspicious days/nights like new year/festival/whenever temple is open.(In Japan temples are open for worship usually once in a year for one or two days) Last time I drew the Omikuji during fire festival of Ekadashamukha Avalokiteshwara (Juuichimen kannon) temple where it is said to be too good to test your destiny. Of course there are so many things here wrt astrology..but not so systematic as in Vedic sciences. For example, Japanese believe Blood Group Astrology which is funny and superstitious enough.I laugh at the daily predictions based on Blood group..like A- good day, B-medium, O- very good, AB- worst in evening. I am not insulting anything but to me it looks funny! KAD , "Inder" <indervohra2001> wrote: > Dear Hanya Shingyo, > Could you please throw some light on Japanese Astrology . > Inder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 30, 2004 Report Share Posted July 30, 2004 Thanks dear for information. I appreciate that your knowledge of Indian astrology and other traditions is vast. Like you know about Ramcharitmanas Prishnavali !! Also this idea of prediction on blood group basis is quite interesting. I think when we make 12 divisions of zodiac [12 rasis] can make predictions why not on blood group basis.! Thanks again. Inder - In , "hanya_shingyo" <kadrudra> wrote: > > Dear Inder, > Japanese Tradition of astrology is influenced by Chinese astrology > and is of many types like Tarrot, Uranai, seiseijutsu..etc > Most of the Japanese are afraid of astrology thinking it to be a kind > of black magic because of astrologers here. > Most of the times, here astrologer is mistaken to be a psychic healer > or a fortune teller and usually remedies are not there. > However there is an influence of Buddhism in classical way showing a > vedic feature in Japanese fortune telling. Its called > Omikuji or something like ramacharitamanas prashnavali, where in the > bamboo sticks are numbered and mixed well and put into a > holder- a bamboo cylinder and any one stick is drawn at random to > identify the number and the Buddhist priest gives you the explaination > even in printed format now. > Most probably, each no is related to a tale of > Jataka/Chinese/Japanese Buddist story and the result > is drawn according to the story.Usually these are kept at Buddhist > temples or O-tera. It is usually done on auspicious days/nights > like new year/festival/whenever temple is open.(In Japan temples are > open for worship usually once in a year for one or two days) > Last time I drew the Omikuji during fire festival of Ekadashamukha > Avalokiteshwara (Juuichimen kannon) temple where it is said to be > too good to test your destiny. Of course there are so many things > here wrt astrology..but not so systematic as in Vedic sciences. > For example, Japanese believe Blood Group Astrology which is funny > and superstitious enough.I laugh at the daily predictions based on > Blood group..like A- good day, B-medium, O- very good, AB- worst in > evening. I am not insulting anything but to me it looks funny! > > KAD > > > , "Inder" > <indervohra2001> wrote: > > Dear Hanya Shingyo, > > Could you please throw some light on Japanese Astrology . > > Inder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 30, 2004 Report Share Posted July 30, 2004 Kadrudra, So nice to see a Japanese member. I am a great admirer of Japanese tradition, intensity, gumption as the world has seen and experienced on a daily basis over the last many decades but for me particularly Reiki that is believed to have come from Usui San and has already provoked such controversy vis a vis true Japanese Reiki and its americanized form thanks to its followers that came from Japan and their American heirs. Such is my interest in this field that I have researched into it and have placed my article if you are interested in perusing it on the web at www.indianest.com/astro. One of the earliest and somewhat naive research attempts I had made in early 70s was trying to correlate blood groups (just the ABO not even Rhesus or other blood types for that matter) and astrology. Without time, without software and other factors, it was my first brush with research reality and I learned a lot from that experience, in terms of the importance of sincerity of participants, subjects, data quality, resources, time being the biggest one and many other crucial points of failure and mostly about organization. I was barely ninteen then, after all. It burns in my memory though though I have done research in many different fields since then, including astrology. It amazes me no end that youngsters that come to astrology today expect so much, demand so much as if they are doing a favour to astrology by being attracted to it or giving their precious internet evening hours to talking about it, mostly peripherally! Welcome aboard, and don't mind this old curmudgeon and his crustiness!! RR , "hanya_shingyo" <kadrudra> wrote: > > Dear Inder, > Japanese Tradition of astrology is influenced by Chinese astrology > and is of many types like Tarrot, Uranai, seiseijutsu..etc > Most of the Japanese are afraid of astrology thinking it to be a kind > of black magic because of astrologers here. > Most of the times, here astrologer is mistaken to be a psychic healer > or a fortune teller and usually remedies are not there. > However there is an influence of Buddhism in classical way showing a > vedic feature in Japanese fortune telling. Its called > Omikuji or something like ramacharitamanas prashnavali, where in the > bamboo sticks are numbered and mixed well and put into a > holder- a bamboo cylinder and any one stick is drawn at random to > identify the number and the Buddhist priest gives you the explaination > even in printed format now. > Most probably, each no is related to a tale of > Jataka/Chinese/Japanese Buddist story and the result > is drawn according to the story.Usually these are kept at Buddhist > temples or O-tera. It is usually done on auspicious days/nights > like new year/festival/whenever temple is open.(In Japan temples are > open for worship usually once in a year for one or two days) > Last time I drew the Omikuji during fire festival of Ekadashamukha > Avalokiteshwara (Juuichimen kannon) temple where it is said to be > too good to test your destiny. Of course there are so many things > here wrt astrology..but not so systematic as in Vedic sciences. > For example, Japanese believe Blood Group Astrology which is funny > and superstitious enough.I laugh at the daily predictions based on > Blood group..like A- good day, B-medium, O- very good, AB- worst in > evening. I am not insulting anything but to me it looks funny! > > KAD > > > , "Inder" > <indervohra2001> wrote: > > Dear Hanya Shingyo, > > Could you please throw some light on Japanese Astrology . > > Inder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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