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A skeptic asked me why jyotish fails citing examples of some instances where astrologers and jyotishis made predictions that never came true. I) his niece, a GOLD MEDAL winning M.E graduate was predicted to settle abroad and make a nice name for herself according to astrologers -- she DIED of Pneumonia the next year. ii) Few more instances as fatal as the first one.
He asked me why jyotish fails and he has been asking us these questions for a very long time.
Although I am not a jyotishi, or even learning jyotish, I am a jyotish enthusiast and for this reason I ventured into answering his question in Facebook. Since then many people shared my post!! Now I want to revise this post to convey the practical limitations to the 'predictive' aspect of jyotish.
If you want to make the following better and more attuned to the truth, what would you write?
Thank you,
Viraja
My answer to the skeptic:
Why jyotish fails? -- A simple, humble attempt from an astro-enthusiast.
i) It is too complicated. The 12 rasis and 9 planets convey literally trillions of meanings. One meaning sits over another and completely masks it. It is hard to decipher and delineate one factor over a myriad of applicable factors.
ii) I am not even a jyotish learner. So what I say here may not be 'technically correct' but 'logically correct' to make it understandeable, why jyotish fails.
When major planets such as Saturn/Jupiter or sometimes even fast moving planets like Mars or even Rahu/Ketu transits over a certain rasi, it is said to distill major events (as controlled by dasa/bhukti). Let us say that for example, Saturn transits over someone's 8th house - 8th house signifies a myriad of things, regeneration, death, sex, transformation and lottery amongst others. Let us say, there is planet Sun posited in his 8th house. Sun is the significator or "karaka" for father. In his chart, Sun is 7th lord.
1. The transit may trigger misfortune or death to father.
2. 7th lord in 8th house means unearned wealth - the native may land on a windfall or lottery.
3. It can mean divorce, death of partner (7th lord is the significator for partner/spouse).
4. Sun in 8th house signifies occult knowledge - the transit can even make the native venture into learning occult!
5. 8th house signifies private body parts. 8th house also signifies disease. The transit may also signify onset of a disease or treatment for it from a doctor (as Sun signfies doctors).
+ many more things, other than listed above. So, it is not easy to arrive at one thing among a million others.
iii) A trained astro-enthusiast or a jyotishi will be able to see the pattern of planetary interplay ONCE you telll them the event. it will be obvious which planets are troublesome and which are favorable. That is why, based on this, pariharas are suggested.
iv) As I said already, this is the reason why jyotish is more for spiritual guidance than for predictive purposes. Once you are able to see the interplay of planets in bringing out any and all events, you can only admire the karma theory, the rebirth factor, etc, and become humble before almighty lord and his powerful grahas.
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