Vaagmi
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Believing astrology is one's own desire. But, I would like to mention here that it serves
as an explanation how far we are and how it works in different situations and it also
helps us to understand the status of ourselvesbetter. Astrology has been around for
centuries right along with the Vedas and just as many believe the Vedas and it is
nothing but a science of astronomy. Everyone worship Navagrahas i.e. nine planets.
When something wrong happens, immediately we go to temple and worship
Navagrahas for relief. The Hindu temples are built many centuries before and
Navagrahas are installed almost in all temples even before the Scientists
discover the planets. If magnets could get attracted to ourearth's magnetic field
(north and south poles) which is thousands ofmiles away, why can't our blood
containing iron ingredients being impacted byearth's and the above said nine planet's
magnetic pull or attraction. If one believes or not, Jyothish is only a road map.
Similarly, if blood/water has an impact in the body, how could one say that
it can not take part in human brain functional role. Thus reading jyothisham for
mere knowledge purpose is not all a dangerous factor.
Balasubramanian NR
Vaishnavites do not worship navagrahas. In most of the Vishnu temples there will be no navagrahas installed for worship. If they are the temple will be invariably newly constructed one and in order to satisfy the bhaktas who visit the temple and to earn some income the navagraha pratishta may be done. This absence of navagrahas in vishnu temples is because of the steadfast bhakti of the vaishnavites to Srimannarayana alone and none else. This is the reason why vaishnavites do not offer navagraha tharpanam as part of sandhyavandanam daily. They stop with the kesavathi tharpanam alone. This is just for the information of members here.
I believe a good astrologer is by training able to move back and forth in the time dimension. When this is combined with the knowledge of astronomy helps him predict future and tell the past accurately. Those astrologers who do not get this skill to move in the time dimensions depend on statistics and cover up their inadequacy with a lot of astrological alphabet soup and ultimately fail in their predictions. The accuracy suffers. This particular skill to travel in time is like a sidhdhi which comes only by tapas and many of astrologers have little time and inclination to do this tapas. They just learn astrology/astronomy and come to tell us about the future and fail. The planetary position is just the space coordinate and without the time coordinate fixed it is not of much use. Very few astrologers understand this. If you get one with this talent then you are lucky/or unlucky depending on how scary the predicted future is. LOL.