PRACTICAL VEDIC ASTROLOGY, 4th edition - G.S. Agarwal
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Contents:
Introduction;
Casting the horoscope;
Planets;
Signs;
Houses;
General:
Predictive principles; Judging a horoscope; Yogas; Longevity: Marakas: Death; Marriage & married life; Children; Sex & astrology; Female horoscopes; Medical astrology & important combinations; Profession; Karakas; D-charts, Shodasvargas; Dasa judgment; Transits; Foreign travels; Matching of horoscopes: Manglik;
Miscellany:
Retrogression, ruju, combustion, vargottama, critical degrees, indu lagna, rasmiballa, kulanasanamsa, planetary war, parallel, atmakaraka, avastha of planets;
Muhurta;
Calendars;
Horary astrology;
Charts for easy reference;
Index.
Comment: From the Preface: ....The credit of pushing this book through print goes to certain friends, who, immensely liked my diaries, in which I had preserved the hard earned fruits of my long, arduous, painful and very frustrating journey in the pursuit of astrology. Their incessant insistence to put these into print became such a pestering that I could not escape. I am not much of a fighter either, so I gave in.
The format of the book bears testimony to the fact that I have shirked writing & resorted to compiling instead. I have strived to offer the bare technical data, the tenets and the working rules - but devoid of any trimmings and frills of a writer. Earnestly, all that I can say is that the material provided between the covers of this book is time tested and should hold fast in over 70 percent of cases, a highly commendable success rate for any field of scientific discipline....
Books on astrology, in fact, cannot teach you how to make a prediction in as much as books on the art of playing cricket cannot teach you how to score. The secret, if it is one, lies in being out there. Be it an astrologer, a surgeon, a cook or a cricketer - never to let go of the proper technique, persevere, and, miraculously, that touch comes, a certain sense develops. (From page vii.)
Sagar, 396 pages, oversize paper. MsSVig
http://www.astroamerica.com/v-a.html#a38
Contents:
Introduction;
Casting the horoscope;
Planets;
Signs;
Houses;
General:
Predictive principles; Judging a horoscope; Yogas; Longevity: Marakas: Death; Marriage & married life; Children; Sex & astrology; Female horoscopes; Medical astrology & important combinations; Profession; Karakas; D-charts, Shodasvargas; Dasa judgment; Transits; Foreign travels; Matching of horoscopes: Manglik;
Miscellany:
Retrogression, ruju, combustion, vargottama, critical degrees, indu lagna, rasmiballa, kulanasanamsa, planetary war, parallel, atmakaraka, avastha of planets;
Muhurta;
Calendars;
Horary astrology;
Charts for easy reference;
Index.
Comment: From the Preface: ....The credit of pushing this book through print goes to certain friends, who, immensely liked my diaries, in which I had preserved the hard earned fruits of my long, arduous, painful and very frustrating journey in the pursuit of astrology. Their incessant insistence to put these into print became such a pestering that I could not escape. I am not much of a fighter either, so I gave in.
The format of the book bears testimony to the fact that I have shirked writing & resorted to compiling instead. I have strived to offer the bare technical data, the tenets and the working rules - but devoid of any trimmings and frills of a writer. Earnestly, all that I can say is that the material provided between the covers of this book is time tested and should hold fast in over 70 percent of cases, a highly commendable success rate for any field of scientific discipline....
Books on astrology, in fact, cannot teach you how to make a prediction in as much as books on the art of playing cricket cannot teach you how to score. The secret, if it is one, lies in being out there. Be it an astrologer, a surgeon, a cook or a cricketer - never to let go of the proper technique, persevere, and, miraculously, that touch comes, a certain sense develops. (From page vii.)
Sagar, 396 pages, oversize paper. MsSVig