Guest guest Posted November 15, 2000 Report Share Posted November 15, 2000 JAYA JAGANNATHA! Dear Jaan, Namaste. Just to answer shortly: sidereal or Nirayana zodiac is fixed to the stars or nakshatras, whereas tropical or saayana zodiac is fixed to the Sun's yearly cycle (i.e. it is based on the correaltion between the Sun and the Earth). The two differ because of this, i.e. the Sun will return no to the asem place at the next equinoxe, but a bit behind it. Amd of course we use the Earth as a reference, but these two zodiac will continually shift compared to each other, as there is difference in the reference points (i.e. stars and Sun). I hope this helps. Yours, Gauranga Das Vedic Astrologer <gauranga Phone:+36-309-140-839 -----Eredeti üzenet----- Feladó: <jaan911 Címzett: <varahamihira > Elküldve: 2000. november 14. 19:17 Tárgy: [sri Guru] Narasimha Guru, fixed zodiac > Dear Narasimha Guru > > I am confused over the nature of the fixed zodiac. Vedic astrology > uses the fixed zodiac because the earth is subject to a slight > deviation over time with respect to the constellations. This > deviation having a period of about 26 000 years? > > I am assuming the planets assume certain qualities due to which > constellation they occupy with respect to the earth. > > My point being depending on where we look from, say we observe > Jupiter from Saturn, Jupiter will appear to be in a totally different > constellation to when we observe Jupiter from the moon, or Jupiter > from mercury. So for a person born on Saturn, maybe in the far > future, we cannot say that person has Jupiter in the same > constellation as a person born on earth at the same time. > > I am assuming we say Jupiter occupies Aries because from the earth we > observe that Jupiter has the Aries constellations behind it, so its > qualities are expressed as such. > > So my confusion is why must we correct for the observable deviation > by using ayanamsa, when in fact where we are right now is where we > receive the rays from Jupiter. Also where we are now is in the line > which Jupiter will receive any rays from the Aries constellations? > Where we observe Jupiter from determines what constellation he > occupies, and for astrological purposes that is the earth. > > What is the point in correcting for a position of the earth that we > are not in, by using ayanamsa? > > Is it safe to say that by using the ayanamsa correction we are in > fact positioning the earth to somewhere where is not actually is? > Furthermore using this altered position we are determining where > Jupiter may receive influence from any constellation. > > Jupiter will receive influences from all constellations at once, and > it is only the influence of the constellation he is in with reference > to the earth that affects us. By the same argument why don't we take > into consideration what constellation Jupiter is in with respect to > Saturn? > Since the astrological point is to observe the actual planet > positions and how these influences are passed onto us why do we > adjust to place the earth somewhere it isn't really is. > > I hope you can clarify the issue for me. Sorry if I have repeated > myself in the post. > Or maybe I have got the wrong idea of what the precession of the > equinoxes is? It is the earth's wobble or shift that results in the > constellations not being where they were before, since we are not > correcting for any shift in the constellations themselves. > > Love > Jaan > > > > > OM TAT SAT > Archive: varahamihira > Info: varahamihira/info.html > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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