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How to Practice Vedic Astrology: A Beginner's Guide to Casting Your Horoscope and Predicting Your Future
A comprehensive guide to understanding and practicing Vedic astrology, the art of jyotish .
• Teaches beginners how to read and interpret Vedic astrology charts, based on their own birth chart as well as the birth charts of 112 notable people.
• Shows how to use Vedic astrology to anticipate upcoming events and direct the cosmic energies of one's life toward a positive future outcome.
For over 5,000 years the people of India have used jyotish , or Vedic astrology, to anticipate future influences and make major decisions. Now Andrew Bloomfield brings this increasingly popular tool to the West in an easy-to-follow, comprehensive format, providing the reader with everything needed to practice the Indian art of predicting the future.
Vedic astrology was codified by the ancient Maharishis to help people achieve the four basic goals of human kama (desire), artha (wealth), dharma (life purpose), and moksha (spiritual growth). Unlike other forms of astrology, Vedic calculations focus more on the primal, unconscious, driving forces linking our thoughts and actions. How to Practice Vedic Astrology shows how to make accurate predictions on when to expect life's changes concerning one's career, love life, children, or spirituality. The book includes the charts of 112 notable personalities--from Mother Teresa to Paul Newman--as examples from which to learn chart interpretation.
• Teaches beginners how to read and interpret Vedic astrology charts, based on their own birth chart as well as the birth charts of 112 notable people.
• Shows how to use Vedic astrology to anticipate upcoming events and direct the cosmic energies of one's life toward a positive future outcome.
For over 5,000 years the people of India have used jyotish , or Vedic astrology, to anticipate future influences and make major decisions. Now Andrew Bloomfield brings this increasingly popular tool to the West in an easy-to-follow, comprehensive format, providing the reader with everything needed to practice the Indian art of predicting the future.
Vedic astrology was codified by the ancient Maharishis to help people achieve the four basic goals of human kama (desire), artha (wealth), dharma (life purpose), and moksha (spiritual growth). Unlike other forms of astrology, Vedic calculations focus more on the primal, unconscious, driving forces linking our thoughts and actions. How to Practice Vedic Astrology shows how to make accurate predictions on when to expect life's changes concerning one's career, love life, children, or spirituality. The book includes the charts of 112 notable personalities--from Mother Teresa to Paul Newman--as examples from which to learn chart interpretation.
272 pages, Paperback
First published July 14, 2003
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April 2, 2021Roell review
Comment: For each house, there are example charts- 18 for the 7th house, 6 charts for the 9th (which is a more typical number), more than 100 in all. Like many beginner books, you should ideally find this in a store, skim through it & love it or not, as it speaks to you (or not). It is a nice book. The best thing about it is the free CD Rom of Parasara's Light software in the back. It's Windows-only (sorry Macs!). This will let you do basic on-screen chart calculations & pretty much everything described in the book. It is otherwise a tease for the full program, which is $299. Which is a lot for a limited-use specialty program of any kind, frankly.
Comment: For each house, there are example charts- 18 for the 7th house, 6 charts for the 9th (which is a more typical number), more than 100 in all. Like many beginner books, you should ideally find this in a store, skim through it & love it or not, as it speaks to you (or not). It is a nice book. The best thing about it is the free CD Rom of Parasara's Light software in the back. It's Windows-only (sorry Macs!). This will let you do basic on-screen chart calculations & pretty much everything described in the book. It is otherwise a tease for the full program, which is $299. Which is a lot for a limited-use specialty program of any kind, frankly.
June 20, 2021
I didn't really vibe with this book or Vedic astrology but it still a very interesting book.
January 2, 2016
Good for beginners
A very good introduction to vedic astrology for beginners. It has easy instructions to set up one's own horoscope and build a framework for further studies. Just a minor detail I have to complain about, the kindle version should have had links in the text to the tables it is referring to throughout the book, not only in the beginning. It would have been useful while working with the book.
A very good introduction to vedic astrology for beginners. It has easy instructions to set up one's own horoscope and build a framework for further studies. Just a minor detail I have to complain about, the kindle version should have had links in the text to the tables it is referring to throughout the book, not only in the beginning. It would have been useful while working with the book.
June 10, 2015
good way to learn Vedic.
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February 22, 2018A comprehensive guide to understanding and practicing Vedic astrology, the art of jyotish.
• Teaches beginners how to read and interpret Vedic astrology charts, based on their own birth chart as well as the birth charts of 112 notable people.
• Shows how to use Vedic astrology to anticipate upcoming events and direct the cosmic energies of one's life toward a positive future outcome.
For over 5,000 years the people of India have used jyotish, or Vedic astrology, to anticipate future influences and make major decisions. Now Andrew Bloomfield brings this increasingly popular tool to the West in an easy-to-follow, comprehensive format, providing the reader with everything needed to practice the Indian art of predicting the future.
Vedic astrology was codified by the ancient Maharishis to help people achieve the four basic goals of human existence: kama (desire), artha (wealth), dharma (life purpose), and moksha (spiritual growth). Unlike other forms of astrology, Vedic calculations focus more on the primal, unconscious, driving forces linking our thoughts and actions. How to Practice Vedic Astrology shows how to make accurate predictions on when to expect life's changes concerning one's career, love life, children, or spirituality. The book includes the charts of 112 notable personalities--from Mother Teresa to Paul Newman--as examples from which to learn chart interpretation.
• Teaches beginners how to read and interpret Vedic astrology charts, based on their own birth chart as well as the birth charts of 112 notable people.
• Shows how to use Vedic astrology to anticipate upcoming events and direct the cosmic energies of one's life toward a positive future outcome.
For over 5,000 years the people of India have used jyotish, or Vedic astrology, to anticipate future influences and make major decisions. Now Andrew Bloomfield brings this increasingly popular tool to the West in an easy-to-follow, comprehensive format, providing the reader with everything needed to practice the Indian art of predicting the future.
Vedic astrology was codified by the ancient Maharishis to help people achieve the four basic goals of human existence: kama (desire), artha (wealth), dharma (life purpose), and moksha (spiritual growth). Unlike other forms of astrology, Vedic calculations focus more on the primal, unconscious, driving forces linking our thoughts and actions. How to Practice Vedic Astrology shows how to make accurate predictions on when to expect life's changes concerning one's career, love life, children, or spirituality. The book includes the charts of 112 notable personalities--from Mother Teresa to Paul Newman--as examples from which to learn chart interpretation.
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