Astro-Numerology.

The Algorithm.

I've been studying The Astrology and the Numerology since last 55 years. Now I have reached at a point where I'm very  convinced that there is a reason and the reasoning too to take up this study of both the two, rather seriously.

This insight came to me today morning only. I began with all the introductory information I have already gathered so far in my study up to date.

Here is this in a nutshell :

Students of Astrology and Numerology might be aware how the Astrology talks about the 9 planets that are supposed to move around the Sun. This is called the Mundane / Earthly / Astrology. 

The  मेदिनी ज्योतिष्-शास्त्र 

मेद् / मेध्  are the संस्कृत Sanskrit root verbs denoting matter / material aspect of the world / Universe.

मेधा  on the other hand denotes the mind or the mental world.

The Universal Matrix

is called मातृका in Sanskrit and also in the Veda. Devi Atharva SheerSha deals with this. But here we take the Earth as the Divine Mother and The Sun as The Father Divine. The other planets moving in the cosmos are the Divine aspects of the same Ultimate and Absolute, The Brahman Who Alone keeps manifesting and then returns back to the state that is imperceptible to the manifest world and to those who see the world.

The Astronomy tells us that the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn revolve around the Sun in their own respective orbits, while the Moon as is seen from the Earth is Earth's natural satellite and moves in an orbit around the Earth. We always need a point of reference when we have to speak of the Astronomy or Astrology. 

So, for all the practical purposes only, where we see that the Sun rises in the East and then sets in the West is such a point of reference. On the other hand, from the observer's point of reference the place in the Earth, where the observer sees the Sun as rising and setting is yet another such a point of reference. From his point of reference the sky looks like a hollow sphere of glass where he sees all those heavenly bodies rising at a time  and at some point on this globe and setting also at some such another point. This point is called "The Azimuth" 

दिक् अंश - दिगंश  in the Sanskrit.

The constellations look like as if studded on this glass-globe. The relative positions of the stars in a constellation though looks fixed, the constellation as a whole appears to rise and set like the Sun and all the other planets.

Every constellation has been divided in 4 parts and a Sun-sign consists of such 9 parts. So, all the 27 constellations make up such 108 parts together. That is the secret why a rosary gas 108 beads in it.

Each of the 12 Sun-sign is made of 2 and 1/4 th constellations.

This all forms the fundamentals (basics) of the Vedika Astrology (and not to be confused with Astronomy).

With the Earth as the point of reference, we deal with Astronomy, while with the observer at any point on the Earth,  we deal with Astrology.

Study of this whole hollow glass Sphere is done through Spherical Astronomy, where Spherical Trigonometry makes a great deal of help.

As seen from a place on the Earth, an observer can relate the movement of all the heavenly bodies, the Sun-signs, the constellations, the Sun, the moon and all those other planets referred to earlier. Still when he observes the happening of the Eclipse, he just can't understand how to explain this phenomenon.

The Vedika prehistorical Sages however always Know this could be conveniently explained if we consider two points as at the extreme ends of an imaginary axis on the Azimuth on the Spherical and the imaginary glass globe.

These two extreme points are called the Node and the Anti-node and facilitate in predicting exactly at what time at a place in the Earth such a Solar Ir Luner Eclipse will be observed.

These two points could be thought of as  if they behave like a visible planet on the imaginary  glass globe.

As such they are named 

Rahu and Ketu .

Both move in the Zodiac in a direction opposite to the directions to which all other planets appear to move around the Sun (only from the observer's point of reference). 

In the Astrological parlance they as such are called Retrograde .

From the observer's point of reference again, the 'planets' like 

The Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn too sometimes appear to become Retrograde, this is an optical illusion.The last point in this post -

There are planets Mercury and Venus that appear moving within the inner orbit of the Earth and then there are Mars Jupiter and Saturn that appear out of the Earth's orbit.

So the Moon and the Sun never become Retrograde.

How is the Numerology related to the  Astrology?

This I will try to explain in the next post.

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