Jyotish-Medical Astrology

Jyotish means inner light; this science helps reveal one's inner Divine light. Ayurveda and Jyotish were once a part of the same science, but later developed into two separate forms of healing.

The position of the planets in the signs is literally the same as what exists in the sky. (This is not the case in Western or tropical astrology, so different rules are used to arrive at proper insights.)

Jyotish references the ascendant's position in the sky while Western astrology uses the Sun's position. The ascendant changes signs every 2 1/2 hours while the Sun changes sign every month.

Because the ascendant moves so quickly, at any given birth moment, fewer people are actually born. Since the Sun moves so slowly more people are born at any given position. Thus Jyotish talks to fewer people at any given position making the reading more personalized.

Spirituality is the basis of Jyotish and the reading is designed to reveal the inner person. Change the inner person and outer life will also change. Western astrology (as it is generally practiced) focuses on the outer realm of life.

Rather than just explain what planets are strong and weak, Jyotish offers therapies to strengthen weak planets. This science follows the basic Vedic belief that four areas of life need attention; health, life-purpose or meaningful career (dharma), spiritual relationships and personal spiritual path.

By looking at the planets, the 12 houses and their relationship in the astrology chart one can determine health tendencies and causes, dharma, things that make relationships spiritual and how to better grow on one's spiritual path.

Every person has some strong and some weak planets. Each planet, when weak and influencing health-related houses can cause specific disease. What is unique about Vedic astrology is that instead of merely informing a person what the chart says in a fatalistic approach, Jyotish offers simple therapies to remove the troubling effects of planets.

"A physician without knowledge of [medical] astrology has no right to call himself a physician."
~Hippocrates~ Father of Modern Medicine