Nadi Astrology especially the idea of looking at the rising and the culminating decan so this basically represents looking at two different frameworks one of them is the movement of the planets along the ecliptic or you could conceptualize that as moving against the backdrop of the constellations versus the 24-hour cycle of the movement of the planets in the diurnal rotation which is just how the planets just how the sun rises and culminates and sets each day and then it repeats that cycle
The next day and the day after that and so on and so forth the planets the other planets all do the same thing so at some point during the day the planet saturn will rise over the eastern horizon and at some point during the day saturn will culminate overhead and at some point saturn will set over the western horizon but it will do it at different times in the day depending on where it is in its cycle than
The sun does so what what happened during the hellenistic tradition was the merging of these two different frames of reference and once you do that you start seeing in the egyptian temples the decans being overlaid on top of the zodiac so that the deccans become 10 degree subdivisions or 36 10 degree subdivisions of the signs of the zodiac so that there's three decans in each sign so for example the first 10 degrees of cancer is a decan the second degrees of cancer is the second decan
And then the third 10 degrees of cancer is the third decant so that the 30 degrees of the sign of cancer are divided evenly between these three 10 degree decants so eventually at some point during the hellenistic tradition once the decans and the zodiac were merged they then started paying attention to the rising deccan or the deccan that was rising over the eastern horizon at the moment of birth and treating that as important just like they had previously been paying attention to the rising and culminating decans in the earlier egyptian tradition
But now once they started transferring that and looking at the deckins as a sort of subdivision of the zodiac and looking at what deccan was rising and then numbering them from there that naturally led to starting to look at the entire rising zodiacal sign and treating that as important to the person who was born at that moment in time what that essentially eventually led to at some point i think in a text attributed to hermes tris majestis was this idea of looking at the rising zodiacal sign
The rising sign of the sign of the zodiac that was rising at the moment a person was born and then saying that that the entirety of that sign would represent the first house or what we call the first house of the native and then the rest of the signs were numbered in zodiacal order from there so that after the rising deck in which is the first house then the sign after that which is let's say leo if cancer was rising would become the second house virgo
Which is the third sign from the rising sign becomes the third house and so on and so forth so this is what's known today in modern times as the wholesign house system and you can kind of see how that system then would have developed out of what was initially a sort of whole deccan house system in some sense the earlier mesopotamian tradition going back to that mysterious text known as the selma shikhoi niaka so the concept of basically holstein houses is introduced at this point
But what's weird is that there were also a bunch of other very core concepts that also seem to have been introduced relatively suddenly at this time and what's interesting about is they are often introduced within the context of or they seem to have these underlying conceptual or theoretical constructs or frameworks underlying them so one of the things that was introduced was the rulership scheme that certain planets rule different signs of the zodiac and another scheme that was introduced was the idea that certain planets are associated with one of the 12 houses
And the conceptual constructs underlying these new ideas ideas are to diagrams that we know is the fema mundi and the planetary joys scheme so i want to talk about those two schemes for just a few minutes so the theme of mundi is often introduced and is said to be like the birth chart for the birth of the world or the birth of the cosmos and fermicus maternity in the fourth century tells us that it was like a teaching tool that was used to explain the rationale for the rulership of the science of the zodiac
So the theme of mundy was said to have cancer the ascendant rising so the ascendant in cancer and the moon in cancer in the first holstein house then the sun was said to be in the second house in leo mercury was said to be in the third house in virgo venus in the fourth house in libra mars in scorpio jupiter in sagittarius and saturn in capricorn so it sets up this interesting scheme where the sun is assigned to in one hermetic text it says 15 degrees of leo because that's the very height in the very middle of the summer in the northern hemisphere
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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
