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Hindu astrology, also called Indian astrology, jyotisha (Sanskrit: ज्योतिष, romanized: jyotiṣa; from jyót 'light, heavenly body') and, more recently, Vedic astrology, is the traditional Hindu system of astrology. It is one of the six auxiliary disciplines in Hinduism that is connected with the study of the Vedas.
A horoscope (or other commonly used names for the horoscope in English include natal chart, astrological chart, astro-chart, celestial map, sky-map, star-chart, cosmogram, vitasphere, radical chart, radix, chart wheel or simply chart) is an astrological chart or diagram representing the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, astrological aspects and sensitive angles at the time of an event, such ...
The Fated Sky: Astrology in History. Simon & Schuster. 369 pp. Caiozzo, Anna (2003). Images of the Sky. Paris-Sorbonne. Signs and Constellations. Archived 2021-04-17 at the Wayback Machine; Eric Francis (2016). "Why Your Zodiac Sign is Not Wrong" Hone, Margaret (1978). The Modern Text-Book of Astrology. Revised edition.
Practitioners of astrology in different parts of India follow different conventions regarding the exact form in which the kuṇḍali is constructed. Essentially there are three different ways in which these cells are represented in a kuṇḍali , the one followed by people of South India, the one followed by people of North India and the one ...
Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, [1] [2] that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects.
The Whole Sign system may have been developed in the Hellenistic tradition of astrology sometime around the 1st or 2nd century BCE, and from there it may have passed to the Indian and early Medieval traditions of astrology; though the line of thought which states that it was transmitted to India from Western locales is hotly contested. At some ...
Samudrika Shastra (Sanskrit: सामुद्रिक शास्त्र), part of the Indian astrology, is the study of face reading, aura reading, and whole body analysis. The Sanskrit term "Samudrika Shastra" translates roughly as "knowledge of body features."
Judicial astrology – Form of astrology for forecasting events; Locational astrology – Astrology that factors in locations on Earth; Medical astrology – Astrology of the human physiology; Meteorological astrology – Using astrology for weather forecasting; Mundane astrology – Branch of astrology dealing with politics, government, and law