Unlock the mysteries and insights of Indian astrology Vedic astrology--known as Jyotish in its home of India--can be a powerful channel of insights and revelations in your daily life. But how to unlock this complex tool? Vedic Astrology for Beginners breaks down the core concepts of Vedic astrology, showing you how to analyze your birth chart to better understand your personality, relationships, and life path. Discover the ancient origins of Vedic astrology and its differences from Western astrology. Explore detailed profiles of each planet, zodiac sign, and the other essential elements of a Jyotish natal horoscope. With these foundational steps, you'll gain a better understanding of your physical, emotional, and spiritual experiences--and even begin to anticipate your future. In Vedic Astrology for Beginners, you'll find: Key components--Learn the basic elements of Vedic astrology, including the planets, signs, houses, and lunar mansions--each representing or influencing areas of your life. Chart your birth--Get started on analyzing your birth chart with a primer on the processes of assembly and evaluation, plus an example chart analysis. Astrological resources--Explore a glossary of helpful Sanskrit terms and determine your exact planetary placements with handy calculation charts. Relieve stress and start bringing balance to your life with Vedic Astrology for Beginners.

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 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.

Vedic Astrology is a complex subject and one needs to consider various aspects to conclude on a native’s horoscope. This book is an attempt to offer the basic steps in a simplified manner to analyze the horoscope at an elementary level. It is important to understand the mythological stories for each planet , to understand the effects it has on a chart. Therefore, you will find that this book is a mix of mythology, and process towards analyzing a chart. The key takeaway of Vedic Astrology is to understand oneself and one’s life path, one`s strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and pitfalls and the reasons why one`s life path unfolds in a certain manner.

Learn how to identify the most salient features of Vedic astrology, how to interpret a birth chart Vedic style, and how to use this information to enhance your life. Enter the fascinating world of Vedic Astrology, an ancient system of study that originated in India thousands of years ago. Vedic Astrology, also known as Jyotish, offers valuable insights into various aspects of life, including personality traits, relationships, career, health, and spiritual growth. This comprehensive beginner's guide provides a solid foundation in Vedic Astrology, empowering readers to understand the fundamentals and start exploring this captivating subject. Author William R. Levacy takes readers on a journey through interpreting a Vedic birth chart and the twelve houses contained within, astrological signs, planetary placements, and much more.

Hindu philosophy believes in rebirth. If there are any desires left during the last births then the soul takes reincarnation to fulfil those desires. Whatever good or bad situations a person faces in his life is the fruit of Karmas accumulated by him during his past incarnations. Good deeds result in auspicious events and comfortable life, bad deeds are the cause of suffering. Karma theory works as "cause and effect". The Karmas accumulated during past births are the cause and the comforts or sufferings in the present life is the effect. Astrology works on the principles of Karma. The horoscope is the result of the deeds of a person in the past incarnations. And the good or bad yogas in the horoscope are because of the good or bad Karmas accumulated by the person. "Past life and pending Karmas" deals with the techniques of finding out the past life Karmas and how these Karmas will influence the present life. The chapters in this books talks about various astrological principles and techniques for deciphering the Karmic debts: 1.Signs, Planets, and Houses. 2.Storehouse of Karma. 3.Moon's nodes and pending Karmas. 4.Nodes in different signs and the Karmas. 5.Karmic Controllers. 6.Retrograde Planets and forgotten tasks. 8. Twelve Types of Kalsarpa dosha, and Pitru dosha and their remedies. 7.D-60 Chart and the past life. 8.Example Chart.

Shedding Light on Jyotisha, Vedic Astrology for Beginners, 2nd Expanded Edition includes all the fundamentals for learning how to read a Vedic Astrology birth chart, and it now includes more details for chart interpretation as well as sample chart readings for deeper understanding. This book would benefit anyone new to astrology in general, those coming from a Western Astrology perspective who now wish to dive into Vedic Astrology, and anyone wanting to learn how to read their own birth chart.