SAVol8June2010Indian.. - Saptarishis Astrology

364(Sun) – do not refuse your friend that sandwich even if you do not have a penny in your pocket, your life willchange’.The real story behind one’s life is the crux of astrology – it shows the theme of one’s life and thisis possible only via a symbolism driven approach of ancient astrology of the stars. The stars or asterismsare more minute than the current level of knowledge of stars (nakshatras in Vedic) of Indian Astrology.If one reads the history of astrology of various cultures like Arabic, English and Chinese astrology, theyare going into the exact position of a star to the degree rather than the broad span of 13.20 degree(nakshatra) that is used now in India; and incidentally, our knowledge of these stars (nakshatras) is farless than what was known to our very ancients. This study that has developed in the west to aphenomenal level is now called as Fixed Stars Astrology. The predictive capability of it is mind blowingand, more than the predictive part, what is of importance to the real astrologer is ‘Fixed Stars’ as a toolcan be astoundingly accurate in giving direct clues to the hidden theme of life.For example, can our current level of knowledge look at the Asc degree and say that you andyour brothers are the immortal twins of the zodiac and one of the major reasons he is born is to supportyour work, to give immortality to your work, for you to become the most famous painter ever and beknown by the name of Van Gogh as your Ascendant degree is right near the star Pollux which is at 23Cancer (tropical)?Scheat is a Fixed star – 29 Pisces (Tropical) & 5 Pisces approx (Sidereal) & this star is one of themost notorious stars in the heavens, reputed to cause "extreme misfortune, murder, suicide anddrowning". Vincent Van Gogh had his Mars, who is 6L (sidereal zodiac) of accidents, right on the Fixedstar Scheat conjunct with Sun 3L of hands/actions – and he committed suicide by shooting (with Mars,bullet) by his own hands. For an excellent article on fixed stars and Vincent Van Gogh, kindly readAndrew McDonald’s lucid article on him in this issue.There are many ways to use Fixed stars. Let’s take Scheat & take a concept called Progressionwhich has been ignored in the East. Percy Bysshe Shelley was a British writer known as one of thegreatest lyric poets of the English Romantic age, a writer of delicate beauty 10 . Shelley died during hisSaturn return whilst progressed Venus drew to an opposition of the North Node / Scheat conjunction.Canopus at 14Cn58 (Tropical), denoting significant events at sea, is appropriately placed on Shelley's4th house of 'grave' as per noted U.K astrologer Deborah Houlding 11 . On 08 July 1822, he and a friend,Edward Williams, were out boating when a sudden squall came up. They were run down by a largervessel which overturned their yacht during the violent storm and Shelley died at c. 1:00 PM, Viareggio,Italy.Let us take a more dramatic case of an Indian and see the star Sirius, which we encounteredrecently, as it explained the mystery of a horoscope that has not been solved by many top astrologers ofIndia. Sirius is known as Alpha Canis Majoris, or the Dog Star (14:05 Cancer – tropical; 20:14 Geminisidereal Lahiri). In China, it was regarded as the Jackal or Wolf Star, associated with thievery and looting.The native’s Asc is 13 Cn (tropical) and 19 Ge (sidereal) having the planet Dragon’s Tail near it.Dragon’s Tail signifies detachment and also Seven Sages – the native is a volunteer of the Saptarishis (7Sages) Astrology magazine who, throughout life, spent his time in learning astrology secretly like athief as his family would not allow him to learn; see Sirius star attributes. He would read the books atthe terrace, at the park, in restaurants covering the front of the book so that others do not know he isreading astrology and at home too he would keep it under covers. His library grew and he would hidemany of his books in his car, in his office displaying the attribute of the Jackal. He removed hiddenmanuscripts from astrologers in India by begging, paying money that he took on loan and then gave itto Saptarishis Astrology magazine so that they could donate it. The worst is, even if he paid money toan individual for the manuscripts, he would see to it that on the website of Saptarishis Astrology, the10 Shelley, Percy Bysshe Date: 04 Aug 1792 Time: 22:00 LMT (+0:01) City: Horsham, England.11 We recommend Deborah’s super fine site for western astrology and free books http://www.skyscript.co.uk/shelley.html