What is Jyotish?
Vedic Astrology – Jyotish – is an extraordinary and unique system of astrology. As many have realized, it can describe a life in detail so subtle that the suspicion arises that the astrologer knows the life better than the one who is living it! How can this be? In fact, the astrologer is accessing an ancient tradition of knowledge far surpassing anything known in the West. This view is corroborated by many who have journeyed to India and experienced first hand the power of this system to reveal the secrets and promise of human life. A system of astrology that grew out of the ancient Vedic tradition of India, Jyotish differs from Western astrology in a number of significant respects. For one, it uses the sidereal or fixed zodiac instead of the tropical or movable zodiac of Western astrology. In Western astrology, the zodiac, due to a tilting of the earth on its axis, appears to be moving out of alignment with the actual star-based zodiac. Currently this misalignment amounts to slightly
