Online nadi astrology sometimes going back and studying the history of astrology or studying the older traditions can help us to understand techniques that we still use today so for example where the significations of the houses come from there's some techniques some ancient techniques like annual perfections some ancient techniques like annual perfections that help us to enhance certain techniques that we still use like the concept of transits where you can use annual perfections to identify which transits are going to be more importan
And which transits are going to be less important to a person in the upcoming year which can have a very useful sort of filtering effect on using that technique additionally sometimes when we study the history of ancient astrology and the astrological tradition in general it can give us a clear insight into conceptual and the philosophical basis of the astrological tradition so there's some things that we just do that we just take for granted but we don't know why we do that we don't know where that technique came from
How anybody came up with it but we just use it as part of the tradition or at least until recently that's how it's been done but going back and studying some of these ancient texts in some instances has actually given us greater insight into why certain techniques and how certain techniques was developed which is incredibly useful and puts you on a much more certain footing about deciding which techniques you want to use and which techniques you don't want to use or which techniques have a more solid conceptual
Today by letting us you know not have to reinvent things from a blank slate but instead we can take on some of the useful observations that our predecessors have made in order to give us sort of a shortcut instead of just having to like invent everything from scratch i feel like that's important because i feel like that's one of the things that was almost like a skipped step in modern astrology where the push towards innovation and like breaking out on your own in order to explore new vistas which is important and was a necessary and i think useful and helpful thing so don't get me wrong i think that break in the 20th century
That were perfectly valid and useful that we simply didn't know about because we didn't have access to them but now that we do again through these translations of ancient texts there's no reason not to take some of those things into account or not to draw on and partake in some of the the wisdom from those ancient traditions so the upshot here and what i what i think i've shown at this point is that astrology is going through another one of its periodic periods of transmission and synthesis and one of the things i wasn't able to show as well here because this was not as much of a technical lecture as much as
It was just a broad overview but just every time astrology is transmitted to a new language or to a new culture it changes in some way so while our goal needs to be to go back and look at the ancient traditions study and understand and reconstruct them as best as we can in some ways there may be instances where we mis misunderstand or misinterpret certain things and that in and of itself will cause changes in deviations in the tradition so that's one source of periodic changes in the tradition is just misunderstandings other cause for changes
Is just receiving two different or multiple traditions at once and sometimes having to make a choice between them when they go in different directions so that's another reason why there's changes that sometimes happen when there are these revivals of older forms of astrology so what's happening now and what will happen is that a new type of astrology will emerge and one of the things that i think that's important
And would be good for us to talk about is what are some of the best things from each of the ancient astrological traditions that each ancient and modern tradition has to contribute to any future synthesis like what are some of the best pieces that were good innovations that would be worth continuing or passing on to the future so obviously we're not all going to agree on like every piece of what was the best piece of each tradition that should be passed on but it's still an interesting dialogue to have
Because some pieces of the tradition always inevitably get passed on and some pieces of the tradition sometimes get lost or set aside for different reasons and some of those reasons are good and some of those reasons are not as good but to whatever extent we can have a conscious discussion about that today i think it would be useful traditionalism doesn't require the rejection of every aspect of modern astrology and one of the things that i tried to say continuously on the astrology podcast
And i tried to end the very last page of my book the last chapter of my book with a rejection of fundamentalism because i generally think we should try to avoid astrological fundamentalism of of any sort it's okay for people to have preferences for different traditions or different techniques or different approaches and we have to make room for people to be able to advocate for the techniques or the approaches or the traditions that they prefer and that they want to you know show their love for and share with other people
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The origins of Naadi astrology as most popularly known, is traced back to Vaitheeswaran Koil, a Hindu temple in Tamil Nadu (India), dedicated to god Shiva.
Tamilnadu (VAIDEESWARAN KOIL)
45/2, Opp. Railway Station, Sirkali Taluk,
Sri Vaideeswaran Koil, Naagai District,
Tamilnadu, Pincode: 609117, India
