Creativity in Civil Engineering – Visvesvaraya
I hope you all enjoyed reading my last post on Creativity in electrical field with the illustration of Nikola Tesla’s horoscope. Today I am going talk about creativity in civil engineering field with analysis of Visvesvaraya’s horoscope.
About Visvesvaraya
Visvesvaraya is pre-eminent Indian Engineer, scholar and statesman. He was the chief engineer responsible for the construction of the Krishna Raja Sagara dam(This dam created the biggest reservoir in Asia when it was built) in Mysore as well as the chief designer of the flood protection system for the city of Hyderabad. For the present topic of interest I am going to analyze the planetary combination that represents creativity in Visvesvaraya’s horoscope and I would recommend to go through this link to know more about Visvesvaraya.
Visvesvaraya Horoscope Analysis
Birth details : Born on 15th September 1861, 12.45PM(IST), Chikballapur, India
Planets and house concerning creativity in Visvesvaraya horoscope,
10th house – Representing Career and Profession, Its lord Mercury is exalted with 9th lord Sun. From Chandra Lagna 10th house is occupied by Venus(Natural planet for creativity) being 5th lord from chandra lagna occupying 10th house is unique combination for creativity.
5th house – Representing creativity, its lords Mars occupies 9th house with Jupiter and Saturn. From Chandra Lagna 5th lord Venus (Natural planet for creativity) Occupies 10th house.
9th house – Also represents creativity and deep understanding of concepts. Its lord Sun is well placed in 10th house conjunction with exalted Mercury. From Chandra Lagna 9th lord Mercury exalted in its own house with same combination above.
Why Visvesvaraya is considered most prominent Engineer of India?
Mars is most prominent planet for Engineering. Saturn rules structures, iron etc and 4th house represents land, house, vehicle etc. Mars Conjunction with 4th lord(also 4th house represents education) Jupiter and Saturn in 9th house is a good combination for a Civil Engineer. Jupiter and Mars conjunction in the ninth house creates Guru Mangala yoga which is ideal combination for intelligent thinking. Also note that Jupiter being 4th lord and Mars being 5th lord the above conjunction also creates Raja yoga.
Why Visvesvaraya is a master behind major dams in India?
Sun in 10th house gains digbala(directional strength) and it is ideal place for government administration, this combination made Visvesvaraya to hold various high position in government. From 10th house Sun & Mercury aspects 4th house(4th house rules building and construction) and also Mars the planet for engineering aspects 4th house indicates the reason for Visvesvaraya’s contributions in building major dams in India. Venus the planet for creativity occupies 11th house(house of gain) and again aspects 4th house from Chandra Lagna.
Important Events
KRS dams and other prominent construction: During Jupiter(1890-1906) and Saturn(1906-1925) Maha dasa Visvesvaraya involved in many major construction in India. He designed and patented a system of automatic weir water floodgates that were first installed in 1903 at the Khadakvasla Reservoir near Pune, the same system was installed at the Tigra Dam in Gwalior and the Krishna Raja Sagara (KRS in 1924)) Dam in Mandya/Mysore, Karnataka. In 1906–07, the government of India sent him to Aden to study their water supply and drainage system. The project prepared by him was implemented in Aden successfully.
Diwan of Mysore and foundation of Engineering institution: Position of Saturn in 9th house(Bhagaya Sthana) with Guru Mangala Yoga made him attain highest honors during Saturn Maha dasa(1906-1925) During November 1909, Visvesvaraya was appointed as Chief Engineer of Mysore State. Further, during the year, 1912, he was appointed as Diwan (second Minister) of the princely state of Mysore. He was Diwan for 7 years. He was instrumental in the founding of the Government Engineering College at Bangalore in 1917, one of the first engineering institutes in India.
Bharat Ratna : Venus occupies 11th house(house of gain) and also it happens to be own house made him receive India’s highest honor of during Venus dasa(1950-1970). Visvesvaraya was honoured with Bharat Ratna, in 1955.
Summary:
To summarize 9th house is strongly positioned with Mars(Planet that rules Engineering) with Jupiter and Saturn is a special combination for civil engineer. Sun occupying 10th house with Mercury exalted there is a great combination for holding high status in government. In addition to this Guru Mangala yoga and Amala Yoga(Mercury occupying 10th from Lagna and Venus occupying 10th from Chandra Lagna) made him most intelligent and famous person of India. Will talk about creativity in one of the other field in my next post. Feel free post your comments.
– Elango Annamalai & Muthu Vijayan Elango
Creativity in Electricals – Nikola Tesla
I hope you all enjoyed reading my last post on Creativity in entertainment and electronics field with the illustration of Steve Jobs horoscope. Today I am going talk about creativity in Electrical engineering field with analysis of Nikola Tesla’s horoscope.
About Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla is a popular inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist and futurist. His contribution to Alternate Current(AC) was phenomenal. Tesla is the one who first invented the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. For the present topic of interest I am going to analyze the planetary combination that represents creativity in Tesla horoscope and I would recommend to go through this link to know more about Nikola Tesla.
Nikola Tesla Horoscope Analysis
Birth details : Born on 10th July 1856, 12 Midnight, Smiljan, Austrian Empire
Planets and house concerning creativity in Tesla horoscope,
10th house – Representing Career and Profession, Its lord Jupiter occupies own house. From Chandra Lagna 10th house is occupied by Venus, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, Venus(Natural planet for creativity) being 9th lord from chandra lagna occupying 10th house is unique combination for creativity.
5th house – Representing creativity, its lords Venus who happens to be natural planet for creativity occupies Lagna and 10th from Chandra Lagna.
9th house – Also represents creativity and deep understanding of concepts. Its lord Saturn is well placed in Lagna conjunction with Venus, Sun, Mercury. From Chandra Lagna 9th lord Venus occupies 10th house with same combination above.
Why Tesla revolutionized Electrical Engineering field?
Mars is the most prominent planet for engineering. Mars in association or strong aspection with Moon give rise to combination for an electrical engineer which I have noted in my first post on Creativity and astrology. In Tesla’s horoscope, 4th house is occupied by Moon and Mars creating powerful Chandra mangala Yoga in addition to Gajakesari Yoga because of Jupiter being Kendra from Moon. This powerful Raja Yoga influencing 10th house and 9th lord Saturn powerfully aspecting 10th house were the primary reason for Tesla extraordinary contribution to the Electrical Engineering field. To know more about Tesla and his inventions follow this wonderful summary.
Why Tesla made more than 300 Patents?
Venus, the most prominent planet for creativity occupies first house with Mercury(Planet represents intelligence and imagination, Refer my very first article on creativity for more details) in its own house with 9th lord Saturn and 3rd lord Sun. From chandra lagna the same benefic combination formed in the 10th house, especially Sun in the 10th house from chandra lagna and Mars aspecting 10th house from Lagna created lot of drive to achieve.
Important Events
Early years : 4th house(Rules education) has both powerful Chandra mangala Yoga and Gajakesari Yoga and Mars dasa bhukti was running from Age 2 to 7 years hence tesla was out performing starting from early school,. In 1875 during Rahu dasa bhukti Tesla enrolled at Austrian Polytechnic in Graz, Austria, on a Military Frontier scholarship. During his first year, Tesla never missed a lecture, earned the highest grades possible, passed nine exams (nearly twice as many as required). Rahu in 10th house aspecting 4th house with two Raja yogas made him most hard working and outstanding student.
Middle Years and Working with Edison: Jupiter being 10th lord(10th house represents profession) and 7th lord(7th house represents foreign travel) with Rahu(also implies overseas travel) with powerful Raja yoga. During Jupiter dasa in 1884 Tesla emigrated to New York City in the United States and started working for Thomas Edison. Later due to bitter experience(Mark Jupiter & Moon being associated/aspected by Rahu, Ketu, 8th lord Saturn and 6th lord Mars all are malefics) with Edison, Tesla stepped out of Edison Machine Works and started his own company Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing.
Major Inventions: Jupiter is the planet for wisdom, Jupiter occupying 10th house with other strong combination made him selfless scientist who always wanted his inventions to serve the world rather than making money out of it. Refer this writing for more details on this. Saturn being 9th lord in conjunction with Venus(Planet for creativity) in Lagna and 10th from Moon made him to realize many of his ideas during Jupiter and Saturn Maha dasa. All his major inventions like Alternate Current(1888), Radio(1898), Wireless communication(1903), X-Ray in 1894(Ketu is the planet that represents multiple form, Mark the position of Ketu in 4th house aspecting 10th house was the primary reason for inventing X ray) are happened during Jupiter and Saturn Maha dasa.
Summary
To summarize, Venus powerfully placed in in Lagna with Saturn, Mercury & Sun and this wonderful combination created 10th from Chandra lagna is very special. Mars Conjunction with Moon is the best combination for electrical engineering. In addition to this Jupiter in 10th house with Powerful Gajakesari Yoga, Chandra mangala Yoga, Amala Yoga (Venus occupying 10th from the moon and Jupiter occupying 10th from Lagna) made him phenomenal contributor to Electrical engineering field. Will talk about creativity in one of the other field in my next post. Feel free post your comments.
– by Elango Annamalai & Muthu Vijayan Elango
Creativity in Electronics And Entertainment – Steve Jobs
In my previous post I have talked about creativity in space science with illustration of Einstein horoscope. Today I am going to talk about creativity in Entertainment and Electronics field with the analysis of Steve Jobs horoscope.
About Steve Jobs
Steve jobs was a popular entrepreneur, inventor who was the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. His creativity revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. He develop a line of products that would have larger cultural ramifications: the iMac, iTunes, Apple Stores, the iPod, the iTunes Store, the iPhone, the App Store, and the iPad. For the present topic of interest I am going to analyze the planetary combination that represents creativity in Steve Jobs horoscope and I would recommend to go through this link to know more about Steve Jobs.
Steve jobs Horoscope Analysis
Birth details : Born on 24th February 1955, 7.15 PM(LMT), San Francisco, USA
Planets and house concerning creativity in Steve Jobs horoscope,
10th house – Representing Career, profession. Its lord Venus who happens to be natural planet for creativity occupies 5th house(House representing Creativity).
5th house – Representing creativity, Its lord Jupiter occupies 11th house and aspecting 5th house
9th house – Also represents creativity and deep understanding of concepts. Its lord Mars occupying own house and powerfully aspected by exalted Saturn.
Why Steve Jobs is so creative
First, Venus the planet for creativity occupying 5th house (house representing creativity)gets Vargottama and powerfully aspected by exalted Saturn. Secondly 5th lord Jupiter is well placed in 11th house aspecting 5th house also gets Vargottama. Thirdly 9th lord Mars is in own house powerfully aspected by exalted saturn. Lastly from chandra lagna 5th house is aspected by 9th lord Mars from its own house and powerfully aspected by exalted saturn in addition to Mercury aspection from the 11th house.
Why Steve Jobs created lovely gadgets
Venus is artistic planet, Venus being 10th lord occupying 5th house powerfully aspected by Jupiter and Saturn made Steve Jobs to very artistic in nature. Venus conjuction with Rahu in 5th house made him to create breakthrough electronic items. Venus rules Entertainment field, strong Venus in Jobs horoscope is the indication for his involvement in Pixar animation studio and producing several animation movies. Wonder why most of his gadgets are used for communication? Here is the combination, third house rules communication. Third lord Venus is very strong and third house is occupied by exalted Saturn. Also from Chandra lagna third lord Venus occupies 10th house with powerful aspect from Saturn and Jupiter. Mark the deposition of Mercury(Planet for communication) in the 11th house from Chandra Lagna.
Important Events
Schooling : Though 4th lord Mars is well placed, Mercury occupying 6th house with Papakartari Yoga (When a planet or house is hemmed between two malefics, more details here). During Mercury dasa Jobs was suspended from school few times and he had tough time adopting to traditional classroom studies.
Pre-apple : During Ketu dasa(1976-1983) Jobs had tough time maintaining his relationship and he traveled India in the search of meaning. He lived simple life during this period and become practitioner of Zen buddhism.
Apple Period : Venus dasa(1983-2003) was most precious period for Jobs. Most of his creativity came out during this period. At Apple’s annual shareholders meeting on January 24, 1984, an emotional Jobs introduced the Macintosh to a wildly enthusiastic audience. Sun being natural enemy for Venus, during Sun sub period he was asked to quit Apple and started NeXT Inc. During his Saturn sub period Apple announced to buy NeXT and he again became CEO for Apple.
Last part of life : During Sun dasa(2003-2009) jobs had severe health issue. In 2003 he was diagnosed with Cancer. Mark the powerful aspection of Cancer sign by top rated malefic planets Mars and Saturn(Mars and Saturn are natural Roha Karaha and Roha Bhavathipathi respectively) and the lord of Cancer moon placed in 8th house with Papakartari Yoga gives the clue for this life threatening disease. Sun being ascendant lord aspecting ascendant made him to go through liver transplant successfully. However during Moon dasa(2009-2019) his journey came to end because of Moon occupying 8th house and severely afflicted by Papakartari Yoga
Summary
To summarize, Venus powerfully placed in 5th house and 5th lord well placed in 11th house aspecting 5th house. 9th lord Mars occupying own house and powerfully aspected by exalted Saturn. In addition to this Powerful Gajakesari Yoga, Amala Yoga (Venus occupying 10th from the moon) and partial Lagnadhi Yoga made him famous artistic creator. Will talk about creativity in one of the other field in my next post. Feel free post your comments.
– Elango Annamalai & Muthu Vijayan Elango
Creativity in Space science – Albert Einstein
In my previous post I gave an overview on what is creativity and astrological combinations for the same. From now on I am going to talk about astrological combination for creativity in different fields. To start with, today I am going to analyse and discuss Albert Einstein horoscope.
About Einstein
Einstein is well known physicists, scientist, philosopher, good violinist. His contribution to space science and modern physics are phenomenal. Einstein is best known for his popular mass energy equivalence E=mc2 which is world famous equation. For the present topic of interest I am going to analyze the planetary combination that represents creativity in Einstein horoscope and I would recommend to go through this link to know more about Albert Einstein.
Einstein Horoscope Analysis
Birth details : Born on 14th March 1879 11.30 AM(LMT), Kingdom of Wurttemberg
Planets and house concerning creativity in Einstein horoscope,
10th house – Representing Career, profession. Its lord Jupiter known to be Gnanakaraka(Wisdom)
5th house – Representing creativity, Its lord Venus who happens to be natural planet for creativity
9th house – Also represents creativity and deep understanding of concepts. Its lord in this horoscope is Saturn.
What made Einstein a breakthrough scientist
Now let’s deep dive into the horoscope – Gemini being rising sign its lord Mercury(Planet of intellect)is debilitated in 10th house(house representing career) but it is cancelled by Venus(Planet representing Creativity) and creates Neecha bhanga raja yoga. In addition to this 9th lord(deep understanding of concepts) Saturn and 3rd lord Sun occupying 10 house(Sun in 10th house gains dig bala) adds enormous strength to the 10 house. Also Jupiter and Moon in Kendra creates Gajakesari Yoga. Powerful yoga formation in relation to 9th and 10th house made him breakthrough scientist of all time
Deep understanding of Space
Conjunction of 5th lord(house representing creativity)Venus(Planet for creativity) and 9th lord(house representing deep understanding) Saturn(generally represents space or dark area) clearly shows that he had deep understanding of space and he could able to figure out general theory of relativity which happen to be a breakthrough invention of the time. 9th lord Saturn in 10th house and 10th lord Jupiter in 9th house creates Parivarthana Yoga and Jupiter occupying 9th house are the primary reason for his philosophical inclination.
Important events
Venus dasa was running from 1886 to 1916. Venus being most powerful planet in the horoscope most of the breakthrough invention like Mass energy equation(1905), photon energy quanta(1905), wave particle duality(1906), General relativity(1907), Gravitational waves(1916) were happened in Venus dasa. Sun in 10th with other powerful combination get him Nobel prize during Sun dasa(1921)
Summary
To summarize, 5th house its lord venus, 9th house its lord Saturn, Jupiter in 9th house, Sun in 10th house, Neecha bhanga raja yoga, Gajakesari yoga, Parivarthana Yoga made him a breakthrough scientist of all time. Will talk about creativity in one of the other field in my next post. Feel free post your comments.
– Elango Annamalai & Muthu Vijayan Elango
Creativity and Astrology
Today I am going to talk about creativity in general and astrological combination for creative abilities. Etymologically the word “creativity” comes from the Latin term creo meaning “to create”, hence by definition creativity is the ability to transcend conventional concept, patterns, relationship or the liking to create meaningful novel ideas, form, methods, interpretation. In simple term creativity is act of creating something new to oneself or society. Creativity starts with imagination and later it turn into tangible product (Painting, poetry, inventions etc.) or intangible object (musical composition, scientific theory, idea etc).
There has been always interest from many on how intelligence is different from creativity. Intelligence is classically defined as “the ability to acquire and utilize knowledge”, Intelligent Quotient (IQ) is generally gauged by an ability to interpret information and provide solutions to same or similar problem. However creativity is the ability to create new solution to a problem by connecting information using existing knowledge. Let us see astrological aspect of creativity now.
Planets Concerning Creativity:
Venus: Fine arts, poetry, music, literature involves high level of creativity and Venus rules all these profession. Visualizing a new idea is important for creativity, 2nd house rules visual and Venus is the ruler for the same and hence Venus is the most prominent planet when it comes to creativity.
Mercury: As mentioned earlier minimum IQ is required for understanding problem and to start thinking on new idea (Imagination), in addition communication plays an important role for converting an idea into workable product. Mercury rules Intelligence, communication, research, sculpture, astrology etc.
Moon : Clear thinking and stable mind is required for translating any creative idea into workable solution. Moon rules mind, Intelligence, mother etc.
Houses Concerning creativity:
5th house – Fifth house rules creativity, intelligence, artistic work, children, luck, poorva-punya (past life credit) etc. Venus in the 5th with benefic aspect or Venus being 5th lord and well placed or Connection of Venus with well placed 5th lord will bring in creativity.
9th house: Ninth being 5th from the 5th should also be considered for creative ability and deep understanding of concepts, 9th house rules intuition, grandchildren, religious principles, long journey etc.
Other combinations:
Though Venus and Mercury are important planets for creativity, other benefic combination of planets will decide on which field creativity will be exhibited. For example Mars is the planet for Engineering(Specifically Electrical Engineering), when Mars and Moon have connection with Venus, Mercury and 10th Bhava one will produce creative ideas on Electrical related fields. I will share detailed analysis on creativity in different fields in my next post.
– Elango Annamalai & Muthu Vijayan Elango
Astrology and Fatalism
Many think that believing in astrology make one believe in fatalism and conclude that it is hindrance to progress. But this is pessimistic call, in my personal experience in this field for 40 years, astrology is other way i.e. astrology helped many individual to take better decision based on their inherent strength. To explain this with an analogy seeking astrologer’s guidance is like taking map with you during your travel which helps to reach the destination quickly with less confusion. One has to understand Karma theory to appreciate this aspect of astrology, I will touch up some portion of karma today, please refer our previous post here to know how Karma theory relates to astrology.
There are three types of Karma viz., Sanchita, Parabdha and Agami. For the present topic of interest we will consider Sanchita & Parabdha and leave Agami for now. Sanchita is stored karma based on our past acts whereas Parabdha is what we do with our present state of existence. Planetary position in the horoscope are simply indicating the karmic results that are stored based on previous karma, one can augment or minimize the past karmic results by Parabdha karma by the aid of will power.
Let me explain with a simple mathematical equation, let us consider person A is bestowed with equation 5X2+10X in one aspect of life. What outcome that person would get based on his equation is purely depend on what he substitutes to X which is complete free will of person A. Thus to conclude astrology is not about fate or destiny, it simply indicates the good or evil effects of previous karma and leaves it to man to build his future.
– Elango Annamalai & Muthu Vijayan Elango
ASTROLOGY – Heliocentric or Geocentric Model
In this post, we are going to analyze about the popular myth that Astrology supports geocentric theory, i.e earth is the center of the solar system with Sun and other planets revolving around earth. With this single mis-interpretation, many come to the conclusion that Astrology is not scientific. I would like to stress the point from the earlier post that Astrology is the study of planetary influence on human life on earth. Hence earth is taken as the point of observation. This has lead to the myth that astrology supports geocentric theory. As an student of astrology I strongly believe that the ancient seers on India who authored Astrology, who could calculate planetary positions for past, present and future, who had divine knowledge; certainly could have known that planets including earth revolved around the Sun. But science demands reason, logic and evidence. This article is dedicated to all those science lovers who are willing to analyze, think logically and decide for themselves.
Let us look deep into the horoscope and try to figure out what was the understanding, our ancient Astrologer had about the solar system. Horoscope is nothing but the position of planets as seen from Earth(which is why you see Earth is marked in the center of the horoscope shown below) at a particular time mapped in a frame of reference called Zodiac. For info on the Zodiac, please refer the previous post. Earth is the point of observation or the point where humans are located, hence it is completely logical that for the study of Planetary influence on human life, Earth is taken to be the center point of the horoscope, but that itself doesn’t mean that other planets are revolving around the Earth.
The definition of Geocentric model say that the “Earth is the center of the universe, and that all other objects orbit around it. The stars, sun, and planets appear to revolve around the Earth each day”. Firstly, in Astrology Earth is the center of observation and not the center of universe. Secondly none of the planets in a horoscope complete one revolution around the zodiac in a single day. Let us take Sun for example, if Sun was revolving around earth, by observation through naked eye we know that Sun travels around the east to west in half a day and come back to eastern horizon the next day morning. Hence Sun should take one day to travel around the earth, which is what Geocentric theory says. But in a horoscope as illustrated above(Click on image to enlarge) casted for two different dates, that is not true, for Sun to come back to the same point in Zodiac, it take one year. Hence it is obvious that Astrologer were aware of the fact that either Earth takes one year to revolve around the Sun or Sun takes one year to revolve around the earth, which we haven’t concluded yet. In fact none of the planets in a horoscope completes a full round in one day.
The above table compares the period of revolution of planets around Sun and in a zodiac as observed from earth which is the horoscope. As you can see that for outer orbit planets(compared to earth) the period of revolution around Sun and in horoscope matches exactly. For inner orbit planets there is a slight deviation which we will see later. The fourth column is very interesting. All planets in horoscope moves in the clockwise direction, but while in retrograde motion, they move in the reverse direction for certain period of time and then continue to move in their usual clockwise direction. You can imagine retrograde motion to an overtaking car, while overtaking with respect to the speeding car the slower car appears to move backward. In a circular/elliptical revolution, if for example Saturn were to revolve around Earth, there is no possibility of retrograde motion however elliptical the path may be. Saturn could be seen moving slower or faster at apogee and perigee but never in the reverse direction. Retrograde motion is possible only when there is a relative motion between two objects revolving around the third object, which proves beyond any doubt that Astrology doesn’t fit into Geocentric theory. It is interesting to note that only Sun and Moon doesn’t have retrograde motion as seen from Earth, because one is revolving around the other object.
Outer orbit planets(Saturn, Jupiter, Mars) have retrograde motion once in year when they are exactly opposite to Sun in the horoscope, which clearly shows that they are revolving around the Sun. Recalling the fact that Earth is in the center of the horoscope, when Saturn is opposite to Sun in the horoscope means; Sun, Earth and Saturn line up in a straight line. We also know that the outer orbit planets takes longer time to revolve around the Sun. Hence when Earth which is moving faster compared to the outer orbit planet, overtakes Saturn momentarily Saturn appears to retrogate(move backward) as seen from Earth.
Let us come to Mercury and Venus. Astrology calls these planets as inferior orbit planets or inner orbit planets. If you take a horoscope for any point in time, we can always notice that Mercury is within 60 degrees from that of Sun and Venus is with-in 90 degrees from Sun. Also, if we observe the position of Mercury, Venus and Sun for different date and time in a horoscope, we can observe that Mercury and Venus are moving to and forth across the Sun. The too and forth movement across the Sun clearly indicates that Mercury and Venus are revolving around the Sun. That is the reason why as seen from earth(Column-3), the period of revolution of Mecury and Venus is approximately 1 year coinciding with Sun’s movement. If I am able to understand this, I don’t believe that our super intelligent Astrologers couldn’t.
Last and interesting is our Moon. Moon can be understood to be the closest object to earth by it mere size as seen from Earth. Moon doesn’t have retrograde motion, hence it can’t be an outer orbit planet. Moon doesn’t go too & forth across Sun, hence it can’t be an inner orbit planet. Moon is the fastest moving object in the horoscope. Moon revolving around earth can be inferred from the fact that Lunar and Solar eclipse occur within a gap of 15 days, i.e for Moon to come from behind the Earth to between earth and Sun it takes 15 days, and for one complete revolution around earth take 30 days as can be seen in the horoscope.
Now we know that Earth has a relative motion and to calculate the position of a particular planet in future, you need to know, not only the motion of the other planet but also that of earth. Observing Sun and Moons movement from Earth is straight forward, because we are dealing with bilateral movement of two objects (Sun-Earth, Moon-Earth). But when dealing with Mecury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Venus, we are observing the movement of two objects (eg Mercury revolving around Sun) from a third object which is Earth, hence the complexity of calculations increases, since for calculating the movement of Mercury(as seen from earth), the movement of earth should also be taken into consideration. Our Astrologers have mastered all these movements and were able to calculate the position of planets as seen from earth for any point of time in past, present and future. How were they able to do this, without a telescope or any other equipment, is it possible without deep understanding of the Solar system? Whether to call it mystic science or divine knowledge is up to you.
To summarize, astrology perfectly fits into the heliocentric model of Solar system. Horoscope focuses movement of all objects with reference to Earth, incorporating the knowledge of movement of planets around Sun including that of Earth.
– Written by Saravana Kumar G
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Sun Sign Vs Moon Sign Vs Rising Sign
Have you ever been wondered why astrological prediction on daily newspaper based on Sun and Moon sign are too general and not applicable to you many times? To know the reason you need to understand the difference between Sun Sign, Moon Sign and Rising Sign.
Sun Sign: Sun sign is the sign (or Constellation) in which sun can be seen from the earth at any point of time. Since sun will be seen in same constellation for ~30 days, any two people born within 30 days of sun transit between constellations (Sun will be in same position, since earth is moving around the sun we will be observing sun transit) will have same sun sign. Let me explain with an example, everyone knows that earth takes one year to complete one revolution around the sun. Since our point of observation is from earth, sun will be seen in 12 different constellations during 12 months.
If you look at the above chart (Horoscope generated for Apr 10th 2014 7PM, Chennai) Sun is Pieces constellation (Sign – 12).
Look at the chart above which is generated for May 10th 2014 7PM Chennai, Sun is at Aries constellation (Sign -1).
Now look at the chart above which is generated for Apr 10th 2015 7PM, Chennai, Sun is again in pieces constellation (Sign – 12). From the above three chart one can logically understand that viewing from earth sun can be seen in each constellations for ~30 days in a year and will be seen on same constellation again exactly after one year.
Moon Sign: Moon sign is the sign (constellation) in which moon seen from the earth at any point of time. Moon takes ~28 days to complete one revolution around the earth, so moon will be viewed in same constellation for ~2.3 days. Any two people born between ~2.3 days between moon transitions will have same moon sign.
Rising Sign (Ascendant): Ascendant sign is eastern point of the sign (Constellation) viewed from the earth at any point of time. Earth takes 24 hours to complete its self revolution, so eastern point of the sign viewed from earth will vary for every ~2 hours (24 hours/12 Constellations). From this it is logical that rising sign is depend of time of birth of the person and hence astrologers give much importance to rising sign in predicting life events of individuals. Next logical question that arise in our mind is why our ancestors choose sign that rises on eastern point as rising sign? Think what you see every day in the east. Will you able to relate?
In summary Sun Sign will be same for all born on same month, Moon Sign will be same for all born on same day where as rising sign will be unique based on individuals time of birth. Let me explain with a analogy, Sun Sign & Moon Sign predictions are like taking Paracetamol for fever, it will work out at times if it is general ailment, whereas Rising Sign prediction are like taking antibiotic based on doctor’s complete analysis of your body which will work for sure. Now I will leave it to you to conclude by yourself which basis of prediction will be more accurate.
– Written by Elango Annamalai and Muthu Vijayan Elango
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