Answer as Generic examples, & VAIP Confusion about selection of system

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Dear Memo (is that your name)

 

Your question is VERY general, so it wd (oops: would!) be difficult for

anyone to really respond properly, as ANY answer to the specific ones you

have raised, will only generate more questions in your mind. I am also in

the kindergarten of astrology & know what you are really saying.

Nevertheless, let me state that generically there are two basic fundas in

all this:

 

1) Differentiated tools: Some methods are intrinsically meant for certain

purposes, eg specific d-charts for specific areas of life, to drill down

after reading the rasi chart vs Rasi/ d-60 etc which are for "everything".

Similarly, specific dasas for specific purposes, specific strength rules

for different situations, etc etc etc. Which u go thru the archives, read

Mr Sanjay Rath & Mr Narasimhas' new book, BPHS, etc etc, u will get to know

eventually

 

2) Individual Specificity: Individual charts have individual

characteristics. This is 1st in general overall terms, ie the personal

planets (Sun, Moon, Lagna lord, their dispositors, etc). To explain, if the

Moon is much stronger than the lagna or the Final dispositor of the chart

is say Mars, you will find that these STRONGEST reference points of a

specific chart give best predictive results when used as reference bases in

almost all tools for THAT chart (eg dasas initiated from them, reading

houses from them, etc). Secondly, for a specific application (eg whether to

use a specific dasa or not), again certain features of the individual chart

matters (eg use of conditional dasas like Ashtottari depending on day/ nyt

birth in waxing/ waning phase, or some say: position of Rahu)

 

Having said all this, I strongly recommend that u obtain & read Mr

Narasimha Rao's new book: Vedic Astrology - An Integrated approach (VAIP).

Astrology has many factors, each of which is applicable in specific terms.

I saw many postings on books to read, which gave many introductory books, &

added VAIP, as if to be read after reading a few introductory books. I

personally feel, that after you have read ANY introductory book which

finally meets your personal readability index (ie finally, one which

motivates you to want to learn more), AS QUICKLY AS possible, read VAIP as

a 2nd book. You can read VAIP even if you have only read Linda Goodman.

This is the first book I know, which CLEARLY differentiates between the

myriad of tools across astro-schools. If you dont read this book early

enough in your astro-education, you MAY become an unconventional master

only because of your great judgement in understanding things much beyond

what you are reading, or like most of us who didnt learn swimming or table

tennis the correct way in our first year of it, get nowhere, as the burden

of unlearning will be too great for any guru to help you. Strong words, but

I am still cockroaching thru this book, after reading hundreds of others,

and wish I had access to it earlier

 

Regards

 

Nandan

The Astro-Cockroach (cockroaching thru tomes, & hoping some of Jupiter's

light filters thru someday)