It was a melting pot for influences from Egypt, India, Babylon, Africa, China, and many others. There is some truth to that view but in recent years we have gained a great deal of previously lost knowledge concerning which of the older civilizations contributed to the development of culture and philosophy.įrom 500 BCE to 300 BCE the Greek culture was in a tremendous state of growth. Most of us were taught in school that culture, as we know it, started from the Greek period in history. These arts and the corpus of Vedic literature arose before the Greek period of history. This is resulting in a renaissance of Vedic arts that include many forms of Yoga, Ayurvedic medicine, Martial arts, Vastu Shastra, which is similar to Feng Shui and of course Vedic astrology. During this time, many Westerners initiated into Vedic understanding have also been pursuing these connections. Piecing this part of the story together was part of my thirty-year journey. Recognition of this error has only taken place during the last 40 years and especially within the last 25 years due to the wave of knowledge coming to the West from India. The question is how did the error of deviating from the stars originate. This brings us to how astrology came into Western culture through the Arabic and Latin mistranslation of Greek culture and knowledge. There are not two zodiacs as they often say. I suggest that Western astrology create twelve new names for the seasonal approach and use the current twelve signs of the zodiac as they were originally intended, as names of groups of stars. If someone discovers a new method of analysis, which is quite possible, then they should be careful to label it differently so no confusion arises between the two methods. It is after all the science of astrology, so it is best to use the actual positions of the stars as all ancient astrologers intended. To deviate from that usage requires a profound justification and explanation. Sign originally meant and still means a group of stars. None the less, both methods of calculation cannot be correct when determining what sign you are. Nor does it invalidate the gifts of compassion and insight they share with their clients. This inaccuracy does not invalidate their intuitive and emotional relationship to the Cosmos. Unfortunately, Tropical astrologers have drifted away from using the actual positions of the stars by over 23½º. There are far too many people who are trampling across the world measuring, tagging and marking everything in sight at the expense of love, aesthetics, spiritual values and quality of life. Similarly, we have developed an imbalance in our relationship with Nature. If you then said to your beloved, “what did you just experience during our lovemaking?” and if they replied with a scientific analysis, “my temperature rose to 99º, my skin became flushed, my blood pressure was 140 over 80 and my pulse became quite rapid”, would that report really explain what you had experienced? Are the facts more important than the emotional and mystical experience of immense love and devotion? On the other hand, if your lover was so ignorant of the physical that they were incompetent to touch you pleasurably, that would also be a problem. Speaking of love, imagine that you were madly in love with someone and had just made love. Nevertheless, it is important that in our search for truth, complete honesty is partnered with constant love. Disagreeing with respect is the basis of our search for truth. Although Vedic astrology and Tropical astrology disagree, it is a scientific discussion with importance to everyone.
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