Basic reasoning of Jyotisha Jyotisha Readings as Narrative Thread Astrological charts show geometric patterns created by the angles between the Seven Planets that most directly influence our Earth, along with the Moon's nodes named Rahu & Ketu.  Of these nine major earth-influencing spheres, seven have energy that is partly converted into mass.   I.e., the familiar planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, & Saturn - plus Earth's Sun & Earth's Moon - are partly solid, liquid, & gas.   The remaining two, Rahu & Ketu, have intense energy but none of their energy is converted into mass.   Thus Rahu & Ketu are "invisible" to the human physical eye. Positivistic astronomers whose machinery is not (yet) designed to detect more subtle vibration cannot locate Rahu & Ketu. However, astronomers are aware that Earth's Moon does "wobble" unaccountably when it passes through the two magnetic zones that Jyotisha calls "Rahu" and "Ketu". However, Rahu & Ketu are detectable with the "third eye" used by modern human clairvoyants as well as the ancient vaidik "Rishis" (seers) whose visions form the mystical core of the Veda.   Interactive patterns formed by the nine major earth-influencing spheres (not all of which spheres have mass, but all of which do have energy) surrounding Earth's Sun & reflect the psychic patterns in the Astral Body, including the relationships between chakras. Astral patterns include hopes, dreams, emotional memories, presumptions & expectations.   Astral patterns will - if not interrupted through conscious intervention - eventually percolate down into the Physical Body.   Jyotisha Readings as Narrative The events of modern life, driven by anxiety for "success", often seems to have no rhyme or reason.  Old methods of marking and interpreting the life path, such as coming of age ceremonies, marriage betrothal, and speaking religious vows, have minor relevance in the modern lifestyle Jyotisha readings give voice to the interior life The interior life consciousness flows uninterrupted through each incarnation, yet its voice is rarely heard.  The exterior life behavior of material productivity, based in the mental process which drives economic choice-making, is widely celebrated. Five-senses input = disconnected Most folks are unaware of their core being. The average person is convinced that the physical body is the self.  The five-senses physical perceptions are not only very limited , they are also not very well connected. Once the flow of interior imagery and dialog becomes conscious, one may be surprised how jarring and disconnected the physical sense-flow really is. The physical senses are simply missing a lot. When my five-senses perceptions dominate, I have no sense of the great stream of life as I do in meditation. I act and re-act, but I'm following pre-programmed brain signals (including "critical thinking") that tell me how to respond to the sense input. Meditative, interior, "astral" awareness = flowing stream of life By contrast to the smooth flow of meditative awareness, strictly five-senses input reminds me of film techniques such as jump cuts, that involve sudden non-sequitur shifts and disruptions, or some sequencing of visual images not connected by a narrative thread. It's possible to enter stimulus overload while living a "full life" of constant sensual assault, while never ever understanding the soul narrative which connects it all. Jyotisha readings take into consideration not only material outcomes, but also the psycho-emotional effects of the psychic-etheric or "astral" body. Jyotisha view of life event sequencing can reveal the connecting narrative thread The Jyotisha reading, which refers to interior astral patterns as frequently as to physical-material patterns, may be the native's first chance to hear the "narrative" of one's inner life. The first serious reading or "life reading" usually take 1-3 hours, which sounds like a long time. But consider: 1-3 hours to present the native's entire life story? The Jyotishi must pick and choose among thousands of salient events. Only the barest skeleton will be revealed in this short time. "story of the soul" Yet, if the Jyotisha reading is the native's first time to hear the "story of the soul", it may be a profound revelation. Handicapped by obsessive focus on body and mentality, the one is *not* dentification
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