Mark wrote: A forum is not a democracy in the sense that every opinion put forth is of equal value. Every member deserves a respectful response but some views may simply be incorrect or in fact total nonsense. Better informed people are inevitably going to challenge such views. Its good that they do...

om indraya namaha I am growing weary of trying to discuss and inform and learn jyotish from a different perspective, and having everyone tell me that their own views are more informed and correct than mine. Everyone quotes second-hand knowledge as though it were the gospel truth. It seems like the o...

pankajdubey,

Thank you for informing of that genetic study.

Mark, I agree with you that the book by Thompson is complete propaganda, it even admits it in the introduction. The value in it is that it mentions things you will never find in a typical Western written text on Indian astronomy trying to prove alternative Western biased viewpoints . Quote from the ...

Hi Dieter, Welcome back. I was not aware you were still following this thread, therefore I was not accusing you personally of ethnocentrism. It is very difficult not to be ethnocentric when one broadens the definition of the term, because ethnocentrism becomes the lenses we view the world through, a...

From a book accessible on the website at the start of this thread: "The years of Jupiter take their names from the several nakshatras in which he reappears after his conjunction with the Sun; and these names are identical with the names of the lunar months" (Brihat Samhita VII.1). There is...

Mark, Good points. I am sort of a neo-platonist, pythagorean, taoist, sufi, eremite, hasidic, samkhyan, advaitan, shraman, siderealist/tropicalist/lunar nakshatra astrologer and some other things. Probably insane as well. I think I said all that I felt the need to say on this forum by now. cheers p....

om indraya namaha The thought occurred today, that our generations of astrologers have a task ahead of them. This task requires a study of the available astronomical and astrological texts from the oldest remaining literature in the traditions both east and west. From the little bit of study I have ...

om indraya namaha I didn't want to come back here anymore, and I am not planning on responding to anything here anymore, but this usurpation of the zodiac by jyotish idea has never been seriously pondered by me until recently, so I wasn't able to respond appropriately in previous posts, due to the f...

Paul, I want to thank you for teaching me, in an indirect way. You are correct that this thread was a catharsis for me. The response I wrote to you was actually written to myself, more than it was to you (if you subtract yourself and my responses to your ideas from what I wrote). It was some thought...

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This kind of mud slinging is a bit childish. In the same vein one could challenge a siderealist why they cling to a zodiac where the spring equinox will end up at the start of sidereal Capricorn in both hemispheres? However raising this issue no more refutes tropicalism than the lack of seasonal al...