Is Vedic Indian astrology scientific?

Before going deep into the course I will discuss a few things about Indian astrology. There had been a lot of debate about predicting the future using planets those are far away from this earth. Even though astronomy is considered a science astrology has been named as pseudo-science. So what is the wrong about predicting the future?

In short I will point to a few things.

Take The Bible. In the Bible you will find detailed and accurate predictions about humanity thousands of years back. Like from the very first chapter of Genesis to the end of Revelation there have been predictions about the sufferings of the Jews hundreds may be thousands years before they were born.

In the Holy Writ there had been an accurate prediction about the birth and activities of JESUS CHRIST hundreds of years before HE was born.

To the ancient Indian sages astronomy and astrology was no different. In fact astronomy was a small part of the ancient Indian astrology. They discovered the science of astrology where the influence of stars and planets in the life on earth can be analyzed.

The ancient Indian sages have divided the astroscience into 2 parts.

Part 1 – Astronomy, where only the movement and position of planets were conceptualized.

Part 2 – Astrology, where the influence of planets and stars on nature, wildlife and human beings were noted down. Take for example natural changes like earthquake, storm, tides and monsoon were a part of astrology. Again, changes in human life like birth, death, love, hate, disease, passion, sorrow etc were also a part of astrology.

Take for example, the tides in the rivers and oceans are influenced by the new moon and full moon. Again the strength and weakness of the moon have an influence on the arthritic pain in the joints of older people, asthmatic patients suffer more during the days of new moon or full moon, and even periods of women are influenced by these cycles of moon.

Human being has been in search of knowledge from time immemorial. So if astronomy is used to predict storms, rain, eclipse, tsunamis in nature what is the wrong in using astrology in predicting storms, rain, eclipse and tsunamis in your day to day life??

In the next post I will discuss about the planets and stars used in Indian Astrology. 

Stay tuned.