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Scientific astrologers

Astrologers who refuse to accept astrology as a divine art choose this path – where in they try really hard giving all the scientific explanation for the planetary placements and their influence on life events. How much ever they try, they ultimately fail to convince the scientific minds.

Modern crowd of course prefers a scientific astrologer for astrological consultation – as they don’t want to get tagged as a believer of blind faith.

Scientific astrologers are always very keen on getting the exact date & time of birth for charting the horoscope, and they also give a lot of importance to minor degrees of planets.

They usually won’t predict events, but prefer to give you a list of probabilities that might occur in your life. The failure rates for a scientific astrologer are really low – as they have predicted nothing.

For instance – the astrologer would say, the time is good hence if you put effort you will be successful. If you go back after a month saying nothing has materialized – he would very well escape saying you didn’t put enough effort hence the event didn’t occur. Safe batting I should say.

Western astrologers

Western Astrologer Linda Goodman with her experience with different people could segregate all human under 12 signs based on their date of birth. And she chose to give the same ‘images’ to all the Sun Signs she discovered, as that of Moon signs Indians had invented 5000 years ago.

She kept publishing books which spoke more about characteristics & nature of a person belonging to a particular sign. Where has the ‘prediction’ part gone? She didn’t bother, since none of her readers bothered.

Whatever is Western has great value in India – even if it is a truck load of shit like Harry Potter & the Sorceror’s Stone.

People who happen to read Linda Goodman & mug it up call themselves astrologers too. They are adept at character analysis, and might shock you with their perfection at reading your behaviors. They play it safe too – they never touch the prediction part.

Astrologers who give only gyaan

Thanks to B V Raman & K N Rao to have made astrology understandable by common man by publishing the highest number of books on Indian astrology. I am sure very few know about these two icons – in fact both of them are termed as fathers of Indian Vedic Astrology.

B V Raman was ‘THE’ man to have translated most of Sanskrit scriptures of astrology into English. The scriptures otherwise belonged to a particular caste or community.

K N Rao is the person who founded a separate institute for Indian astrology in Delhi, and is the single man behind winning the case from Supreme Court to add astrology as a subject in universities.

People out of special interest read their books, analyze charts, and start calling themselves astrologers. There are few million rules which they apply on individual charts, and try giving the clients some gyaan – which most of the times aren’t understandable.

For instance they would say – You are born in the lagna of Meena, and your Moon sign is Kumbha. In your chart Guru, Mercury & Sun are placed in your lagna itself – which is good, Ketu & Venus go into the 3rd house, which is bad….

Did you understand what these jargons mean? I am sure you didn’t!

To be continued…

*Astrologers who counsel
*Astrologers who claim to solve problems & change destiny
*Finally the Astrologers who predict & leave it there