Vedic Astrology in Contemporary Times (Significance)

Vedic Astrology ranges from predicting events and outcomes along with a study of planetary movements which has a philosophical aspect in understanding the cosmos and things around us that affect us directly and indirectly. It is a field of study that combines Astronomy and Mathematics primarily to derive conclusions about various aspects of prediction, analysis and interpretation.

Vedic Astrology assists in understanding a person individually, and the surroundings such as events and relations as a whole. It aims to understand the characteristics of a person, their behavior, their strengths and weaknesses, temperaments, and the best direction as per those qualities in terms of career, marriage, family and finance. It is therefore useful and instrumental in saving one’s time, energy and emotions and implementing them in the best direction or understanding themselves better in how to work things out for themselves as it helps to know the pain points of your life descriptively.

There is the reason why Vedic Astrology is called the ‘Science of Light”. It is the driving force of one’s life and helps derive self-knowledge and truth. It’s a mirror of one’s inner and outer self. It is helpful in understanding the cause, effects and mysteries of one’s own life and that of others. It is helpful in understanding and providing reasons to why things happen a certain way.

What rules our life essentially? It’s time. And Vedic Astrology, as says Chakrapani Ullal, is the “Science of Time”. Astrology, thus, is a storehouse of supreme secrets that common man has no knowledge of.

Vedic Astrology is known as the Science of Light and is a method of understanding the universe around us and its impacts within us and our lives. Everything in the universe interacts with us in some way, shape or form and Vedic Astrology aims to understand and correctly depict the effects of these elements upon us specifically celestial bodies such as planets, and constellations both biologically and psychologically.

Vedic Astrology helps understand their impact on us and gives useful insights into the personal affairs as well as the worldly matters such as natural calamities and issues of the nation states.

Vedic Astrology considers the procession of the equinoxes unlike Western Astrology. It follows the sidereal zodiac, which keeps Chitra as the fixed point of reference. It also considers the Moon as the central core from which all predictions are derived, followed by the Ascendant (lagna). While the Earth revolves around the Sun in a year and turns around every day, Earth’s also rotates on its axis and completes one circle in 26000 years. Due to this gradual shift, the vernal equinox moves westward of Sun’s path 1 degree every 72 years.

Thus, the point of Aries in Western Astrology and the point of Aries in Vedic Astrology have shifted almost 24 degrees away from each other now, which is why there is a major difference in calculations. Since Vedic Astrology is based on solid scientific principles and planetary configurations, it is gaining more respect and interest over the past few years.

• Astrology is not a tool to change or manipulate the future, nor does it claim the exact happenings for one’s life. It is a sum total of the quality of life that one leads and what are the contributing factors. Every single horoscope is delved into deeply to understand its effects on a person.
• There are certain aspects that cannot be changed such as the quality of relationships with different people in your life – father, mother, wife, children, and friends. But these can be improved once a person is aware of the reasons behind the way these relationships forge.
• In cases of the effects of combinations of planets or certain placements, it works out the way it is destined to, however, one can always know the reasons behind their own path of life and resolve or improve certain aspects by remedies or karma correction, even though none of these can be alleviated as we as humans are nothing but dust in front of the universe and God, that is way beyond our understanding or manipulation.
• Astrology only gives the positive and negative tendencies in a horoscope based on planetary placements and the negative areas can be worked upon to mitigate or reduce the ill-effects.

Vedic Astrology is life’s reaction to planetary movements. Due to its strong association with astronomy and close interpretations, Vedic Astrology is considered as one of the most reliable Astrology systems in the world. Its accuracy is not mere coincidence, but a correlation to the stars.