Lesson - 1 : Zodiac, Signs, Stars and Planets

What is Zodiac?
Zodiac is an imaginary circle drawn around the earth and extended as far as possible to include not only the sun and planets in our solar system but also the stars in, around and near it.  Its length is 360 degrees and width is about 16 degrees.

What is Ecliptic?
We see the sunrise in the morning and sunset in the evening and again after 12 hours see the sunrise.  Thus it appears to us as viewed from a place on earth that the sun is moving around the earth, though actually it is not.  This apparent path of the sun is called ecliptic.  Since the earth takes 365 days to come around the sun, it appears to us that sun takes one complete year to come around its ecliptic.
What is a Sign?
The zodiac consisting of 360 degrees is divided into 12 equal parts and each is called a sign, having 30 degrees.  Since the sun which takes one year to move through these signs takes one month to cross each sign, these signs are also called as solar mansions.  The twelve signs are 1. Aries, 2.Taurus, 3. Gemini, 4.Cancer, 5.Leo, 6.Virgo, 7. Libra, 8. Scorpio, 9. Sagittarius, 10.Capricorn, 11. Aquarius and 12. Pieces
The Stars:
     All the suns are stars and all stars are suns.  Our sun, being a star itself, moves through other stars in and around the solar system.  These stars are many but according to their characteristics, they are grouped into 27.  When the sun and other planets move through these stars, they get modified of their nature and offer different results and contribute to different events in man's life on the earth.  A group may have 6 stars or 3 or even only one large bright star.  For example, the group Aswini-Arietus-Stars has 3 stars and Moola-Scopionis has 6 whereas Chitra-Virginis Spica has only one. The 27 stars are: 1. Aswini, 2. Bharani, 3. Kritika, 4. Rohini, 5. Mrigasira, 6. Arudra(Thiruvadhirai), 7. Punarvasu(punarpoosam), 8. Pushyami(Poosam), 9. Ashlesha(Ayilyam), 10. Makha, 11. Pubba(pooram), 12. Uttara, 13.Hasta, 14.Chitra, 15. Swathi, 16. Vishaka, 17.Anuradha, 18. Jyesta(kettai), 19. Moola, 20 Purvashada(Pooradam), 21. Uttarashada(Uttaradam), 22. Sravana(Thiruvonam), 23. Dhanishta(Avittam), 24. Sathabisha(satayam), 25. Purvabhadra(Pooratadhi), 26. Uttarabhadra(Uttaratadhi), and 27. Revati.
The Planets:
      Though astrology is thought to be mostly connected with planets, the stars are actually more important than the planets because they modify even the nature of the planets.  The planets are nine in number as per Hindu System of Astrology: 1. Sun, 2. Moon, 3. Mars, 4. Mercury, 5. Jupiter, 6. Venus, 7. Saturn, 8. Rahu and 9. Ketu.  (Rahu and Ketu are not planets but nodes of which details are given in a separate article and now let us just know them as planets in this introductory lesson).

Note:
If we strictly and scientifically observe, Sun is not a planet but a star.  Moon is not a planet but a satellite coming around the earth.  Rahu and Ketu are just nodes, not planets.  But they influence man's life to a great extent and just for the name sake, we shall consider them as planets.  Rahu and Ketu are not found in Western astrology but they play a vital role in Indian Astrology.  Mandhi is also a planet, the son of Saturn but mostly used by astrologers in Kerala, India. Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Ceres are the modern planets used in Western Astrology, not at all known to Indian Astrologers who have left them probably for the reason that they are at long distance from the earth and sun and have little impact on man.

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Astrology and the Events in Your Life

Astrology is mostly used to find out the nature and time of the events that happened or will happen in your life.

Life is full of events which are of two kinds - specific events and ordinary events.
First type, arising from your karma or destiny includes death, marriage, profession, owning a house, child birth, accident, disease, money matters and loss of property and relations.  Second kind of events arise from one's nature and habits : quarrels with someone, ways of expenditures, love affair, eating habits, communication with others, spiritual activities, travel, dressing and friendship or enmity with others.
Astrology answers or should answer the questions:
1. What will happen in your life?
2. When will it happen?
3. Where will it happen?
4.How will it happen - whether favourably or painfully and by whom?
5. How long will it continue or will the effect continue?
The client may ask what will happen in a particular period, for example in 2014.  Or he may ask when his desired event will happen.  So the astrologer primarily needs to find out the nature of events to happen and pinpoint the time of that event.
The beauty of astrology is that all the events in life are stuffed just into 12 houses and are distributed by just 9 planets. The strength and nature of these houses and planets in horoscope reveal the nature of the events in one's life.  Dasa and it's sub periods along with transit reveal the time of those events.

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Fundamentals of Astrology

To make predictions,  one has to learn the fundamentals and the prediction methods which are listed as follows and are explained in articles with such titles:
1.  Of 12 Signs in the Zodiac
2.  Of 27 Stars in the Signs
3.  Of 9 Planets moving through the    
      Stars
4.  Of 12 Houses
5.  Of Dasa Periods
6.  Of Transit
7.  Of Birth Chart and Horary Chart
8.  Of Prediction Methods

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What is astrology?

     Astrology is an ancient art-cum -science that enables the learned one to know events in past, present and future of society and individuals with reference to planetary movements in the sky or by some other means.
     Which one controls events in man's life and those in society?  Is it fate or one's own karmas gained through uncountable births or the nature and movements of planets determined by universal consciousness?   What is the connection of astrology to it?

Why this blog? 

     Judging or using astrology before knowing it is meaningless.  The divine and noble astrology is today in our hand as fragmented, corrupt and misunderstood one.  Now it is not the time to argue about the origin of astrology  and to say that it belongs to our country.  The argument that my system of prediction is the right one leads to lack of unity and coordination among the astrologers and thereby astrology becomes shapeless and more complicated in the hands of astrologers itself. 
     This blog is launched to study as well as to research on astrology to make it verifiable and more useful for the whole humanity.  Articles will be regularly published here to achieve the same.  The comments, suggestions and contributions will be positively converted into the health and well-being of astrology.

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