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I'm puzzled what you mean by 'flaws in the sidereal zodiac'. I can see flaws in

an 'our dogma is the only valid one' type of astrology or in the idea that only

astrologers in the past had real knowledge, but the sidereal or the tropical

zodiac are surely both neutral in that respect. 'Sayana' and 'Nirayana' i.e.

tropical or sidereal zodiacs have different purposes. Nirayana is the basic

astronomical system and Sayana has a specific annual purpose. If you use the

Sayana system for all your astrology then you have a skewed view of a chart and

a lot of basic astrology will not work on it. They can not really be equally

compared. I think that the problem lies in what people believe astrology to

be. From my studies it is clear to me that astrology was once considered as

science, in almost the same way as today materialists think of modern science

as the only source of valid knowledge. Astrology was the only science in that

sense. All knowledge was there, but there was a great skill and usually many

years of devotion in learing all of the rules to interpret it and in becoming

skilled in the art. Today that real astrology has become fragmented or partly

lost. I had a quick look at Hank Friedman's site - very impressive and his

information given out on software is really excellent - 6 years ago I went to a

lecture he gave on that and he was good then. His site approaches astrological

descriptions by two methods - one is simply descriptive and there is a lot of

that - fine you can simply examine that and see if you agree or not and how it

compares with what you have learnt of the signs, planets, etc. or as astudent

you can easily learn from it. However it also uses astrology for the very

limited purpose that popular astrology is used for today - i.e. to describe and

to give form to the ego, which has no real existence anyway - well it exists,

but it is never the same. People are totally emotionally attached to their

egos and some astrology today seems to be used principally to heighten their

easily manipulable sense of their own always changing and always unreal ego, to

which end any untruth will serve perfectly. If it was 4003 AD now and not 2003

people might have woken up to the fact that western astrology (Sayana zodiac)

is missing out on the real knowledge, as the western zodiac is moving away from

the astronomical positions of planets and the further it goes the more unreal

its methods will necessarily become.

Regards

Gordon