Ancient Astrology, What is it and How Can it Help You?

Ancient astrology is the type of astrology that was practiced by astrologers hundreds and thousands of years ago in medieval Europe, ancient Arabic, Greek, and Indian cultures. There has been a resurgence of ancient forms of astrology in the early 21st century, researching and investigating the ancient techniques and adding them to the set of modern astrological tools.

Modern western astrology has become more focused on psychological analysis of the individual's chart and less and less on the actual predictive elements of astrology such as marriages, accidents, health issues, family and other life areas. Western astrologers became more and more interested in understanding the roots of their art, which were obscured by the ravages of history like the Dark Ages of Europe.

There has been a concerted effort at bringing back to modern use techniques that were used in the ancient world such as rulerships, planetary periods, solar and lunar returns, and such things as oriental and occidental placements of planets in a chart. There has also been a resurgence of Vedic astrology in the western world. Vedic astrology (also called Jyotish, "science of light").

The chief virtues of ancient astrology are that they retain the original mindset and intent of their creators who had a decidedly less materialistic, fear-based, and egoistic emotional disposition, than their modern counterparts. Supposedly this gives greater spiritual and predictive power if the techniques are emulated as closely as possible. In practice this has proven to be true, giving an added practical dimension to astrology that the west has been lacking in for many years.

This is not to say that western astrologers aren't good at predicting the events in the life of any given client, it is the use of the ancient astrology techniques however that have greatly enhanced their ability to do it. Yet the ancient techniques of astrology are still only known by a relatively small amount of western astrologers, the word is spreading though.

Since it is arguable that the Vedic culture of India was one of the first, if not the first advanced society in history, some people assert that Vedic astrology (from ancient India) was the progenitor of all other forms of astrology. Some researchers of the Vedic culture cite references going back as far as 8,000 BC and longer. Some say however that the ancient Greek and Vedic cultures arose around the same time in the early first millennium AD, and that they borrowed concepts from each other. It is difficult to actually know since only fragments remain of the ancient texts, Indian records however have seemed to have suffered far less of the ravages of the Dark Ages but not entirely.

If you are looking for a richer astrology experience you should try out an astrology who advertizes the use of traditional, medieval, or Vedic styles. There is generally a greater emphasis on predictions (money, job, spouse, love, health, etc) than the psychological issues (thoughts, feelings, motivations, etc) of the western brand of astrology. Your experiences with ancient astrology may be much more satisfying.

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