A Day in the Life of a Vedic Astrologer

I have seen lots of people searching for free Vedic astrology books. I have found one website where they have given all ancient Vedic astrology treatise like Brihat Jatak, Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (BPHS), Saravali, Garga Hora, and Horasara etc. Other than that you will find all four Vedas i.e. Riga veda, Sama veda, Yajur veda, and Atharva veda and upnishadas.

For ease of download I am also giving the direct link of the books here -

Brihat Jataka (zip.74KB)
Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (zip.195KB)
Kalyana Varma's Saravali (zip.164KB)
Garga Hora by Sage Gargacarya (zip.56KB)
Horasara of Prithuyasas (zip.95KB)

First three books are called Brihattrayi (three biggies) of Vedic astrology. It means that these are the three most important Vedic astrology reads. Without these one can not complete his/her jyotish learning. I hope you will find it useful.

Here is the actual link of the page.

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For the last few months I was planning to crate dynamic fonts for Hindi writing. But somehow I was not getting sufficient time. There were lots of things that I wanted to write in Hindi. But the most important thing was my astrology article. I used to write on astrology regularly in various Hindi magazines and I wanted to publish them to net. Finally I got the success. So here is the link -

Monthly predictions of the month of July 2004.

Book Name: Chandrakala Nadi
Author: Jagannath Bhasin
Publisher: Ranjan Publications, 16, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi - 110 002.

Today I purchased "Chandrakala Nadi", an astrology book based on Nadi branch of Vedic astrology. The book is written by my favorite author Late Sri J. N. Bhasin. Like his other books, it is quite useful reading. The most important feature of this book is, it tries to explain the rationale behind Nadi predictions using classical astrology principles.

As the author mentions in the introduction of the book, there are various Nadi texts like Nandi Nadi, Sukra Nadi, Bhujandar Nadi etc. in south India similar to Bhrigu Samhita, Ravan Samhita and Arun Samhita in north India where native can get full details of his life. Normally you have to give your thumb impression to the Nadi reader and the Nadi reader 'the astrologer' will come-up with your natal chart and other life details like your name and other family members name, profession etc.

Other then that he tries to get answers of some old confusion in our classical texts e.g. which house should be taken for father - 9th or 10th, and which planet should be taken for husband Venus or Jupiter etc.

Anyway an interesting read. The people who like this book will also like "Sapta Rishi Nadi", a similar text by the same author.

Rectification of birth time is difficult but essential part of astrology learning. In India and most part of the world it is difficult to get exact time of childbirth. So the time we get, as an astrologer, is most of the time incorrect.

There are various birth time rectification methods in Vaidic Astrology suggested by our sages. Here is a list of some popular one -

* Parshara's method of rectification
* Varahamihira's method of rectification
* Event based rectification
* KP System method of rectification
* Nadi and Bhrigu's method of rectification

Yes, you are right, it is not a complete list of all available methods. Expert astrologers use various techniques to find correct birth time. In all these techniques, I found my own technique, which is quite reliable. First and most important, you have to determine the lagna (ascendant) rising at the birth time. For that I found the feedback method of Lal Kitab is the best method. For every planet is particular house, there are particular indications. You can find those indications (feedback questions) from Lal Kitab.

I once read a book "Grahon Dwara Lagna Evam Akriti Ki Pahchan (in Hindi)" published by "Bihari Pustak Akadami". From this book too you can get some idea of impact of various planet and rising sign on the body of the native. This book is a great asset for an astrology student. This method can also be used for finding the correct lagna.

Once you get the lagna fixed, you can use KP's ruling planets method of rectification to fix the minutes and second of birth.

I don't say that it is the best method. But I can say, atleast, that it worked very well for me.