Hi everyone. In the last one we spoke about light and shadow on the earth and astrological
analysis of what light and shadow mean with respect to the solstice and equinox points
and that's what drives the seasons depending upon where we are on the planet. In this one
let's examine the same chart but now talking about a lesser unit of time called the day
and night itself on a 24-hour basis. So in this one we are speaking or dissecting the
time itself into a smaller unit of time. In the last one we spoke in terms of a year.
Now here we are dissecting the time in terms of a day unit. This is the unit of time has
changed into a smaller unit of time because the study of astrology is all about study of
time that's why it's called Hora Shastra in Sanskrit, science of time, study of Kala or
study of time and what system we are upon called the planet earth and the sun and all
these bodies that we assign esoteric meanings and names to. So unless we begin to understand
a chart or an astrology as a science itself in these terms we are not going to get very far.
So this attempt is my humble attempt in that direction to kind of analyze this. Okay. So here
we go. In the first one now here we see about earth in terms of day and the chart. I superimpose
the two. So you can see earth as in terms of sunrise, sunset, noon and midnight the four aspects
of the day. Okay. So the ascendant or the rising sign or the rising zodiac sign whatever we see
is the rising sign at the sunrise point as you can see there. The noon is the highest point of
the sun as the sun rises goes towards noon. You can see there right and from noon it goes
towards sunset and in the midnight it is last on the other side of the earth. So it's dark here.
So it creates that whole shadow effect on one side of the earth while the other side is still
up and kicking and then from midnight we go back to the sunrise. So this is dictating the
movements of sun through what creates light and shadow on a daily basis. Now we are not talking
about equinoxes or solstices. We are talking about a single day sunrise noon and sunset and we
are analyzing that and with respect to planets two main luminaries in the rest of the planet.
Sun and the moon are the two luminaries as I have shown there. Now when we speak of astrology as
the science of time, time itself is dependent on movement. All the sense of time is created by
movement, movement of what we are talking about here astrologically. The movement of the earth
itself, the rotation of the earth, the axis of rotation of the earth and therefore creating a
relative frame of reference of the planets around the earth. If you are moving in one direction in
a circular motion it creates a relative frame of reference of seeing the other planets as moving
the opposite direction just like you're traveling on a bus. You go forward, you look out of the
window and everything is moving backwards right something like Einstein's theory of relativity
and frames of reference here. That's as simple as it gets. So as you can see there the earth is
rotating in that direction from west to east. The earth rotates on its axis from west to east.
Therefore we see the sunrise coming from east to the west. Okay the only funny guy over here in
this picture is the moon which moves in the opposite direction to all the sun to the sun and the
rest of the planets. As you can see there it's indicated this movement of the moon opposite
to the sun and the rest of the planets it is what creates the different phases of the moon. It
what creates eclipses and so on so forth and even the orbit of the moon is eccentric. It's not
parallel to the plane of the earth's rotation around the sun. This is what creates the node points
the north node of the moon and the south node of the moon which is also called as Rahu and Ketu
in Vedic Astrology and that creates eclipse points. Okay so now we come to the direction as you see
there. The sunrise therefore happens in the east, noon happens in the southern direction and the
sunset happens in the west direction. Okay so east and west are dictated basically as we see as
sunrise and sunset but the earth is actually rotating in the opposite direction. Always remember
that when we come to the next one you'll see why that is important to understand otherwise
understanding a Vedic chart can get really complicated and of course the moon the funny guy is always
going in the opposite direction to all the rest of it. This is also very important to keep in mind
as we go forward. Why? Because the mind as signified by the moon in Vedic Astrology says it's all
about the mind. The moon is the closest to the earth therefore it affects all of us most in any
chart. Wherever the moon is your mind goes there first. Right so that being said the moment of the
earth is in one direction in this case it is shown as counterclockwise and rest of the planets are
moving clockwise. Now the moon is also going in the direction of the earth right in this picture.
Now we see the sunrise and sunset the east and the west with respect to the houses. This is not
the Aries ascendant this is the first to the twelve houses that you see there. The first house,
the second, third and so forth up till 12. So you might say the sun rises in your 12th house,
first house of course goes to the 12th house, 11th house, 10th in the reverse order simply
because the earth is going in anti-clockwise direction as shown in this picture and rest of
the planets therefore seem to be moving in a clockwise direction. So although we call ascendant
as the first house which we have indicated on the top there ascendant is happens at the Nakshatra
and the zodiac sign whatever rising sign is happening that's why it's called rising sign it
rises with the Sun. Everything on this plane happens with the rising and falling of the Sun
and rising and falling of the moon phases of the moon so to speak. So it goes Sun is rising in
your first house goes directly to the 12th house 11th and 9th, 8th and so on. So it's going in the
reverse order whereas when we go to the ascendant and we analyze the chart it usually starts in
the reverse order 1234 is on the other side in the midnight side as you can see indicated here.
Why is that? Why are we taking 1234 in the other direction because the earth where you are situated
is moving in that direction. So we start our journey on the earth plane and it is moving in the
anti-clockwise direction and that's why all the signs which are indicated and the houses or the
movement of a person through life is indicated in the anti-clockwise direction. You get that? So
it's important to keep that in mind. We say first house then we move to the second house then third
house fourth house in a reverse order as compared to the movement of the Sun. The Sun is moving
from one first house to 12th house to 11th to 10th and so are the rest of the planets. The moon
however is going in the same direction as the earth as you can see there. This is the reason why
we even never see one face of the moon because the rotation of the moon around the earth and the
revolution of earth around its own axis is pretty much the same. So we are only seeing the one
face of the moon and this is why the moon creates all the eclipses because of the eccentric orbit
of the plane of moons orbit which intersects with the earth's orbit around the Sun. That eccentricity
creates the two lunar nodes. That lunar nodes intersection whenever Sun or moon passes through
that opposing each other creates the solar and the lunar eclipse. Plus moon is going in the reverse
direction of the rest of the planets including the Sun. Relative to the earth everything is a
relative frame of reference. Time experienced itself is relative by each one of us. From sunrise
to sunset we experience time differently and now in the new energy is the light workers you must
have felt time being very fast also. Yes so we need to understand the science of time and how
these dynamics are playing out between two halves of the chart and we are doing chart analysis. The
left half being the night half and the right half being the day half. Whatever happens in the day
side of the chart is more of your public presence. What you achieve lose gain wisdom knowledge
everything happens in this side. Whatever happens on the left side happens as a hidden means whatever
you are acquiring for yourself whatever is going on with you personally. So you can say it's self
versus outer and you can compare this even to the cancer and Capricorn fourth in the tenth house
fourth in the tenth signs of the zodiac which is spoke of in the last one. So understanding this
dynamic is very important in an esoteric way not in the way of predictions but in an esoteric way
and first in the seventh house we spoke of Aries and Libra in the last one as balance of light
and dark right balance of light and shadow why again because Sun rises in that point in the
east and Sun sets in the west in Libra you can say Sun rises in Aries Sun sets in Libra this is
what we are studying as the dynamic of play of light and dark. Next we shall begin the examination
of the 12 houses the 12 signs of the zodiac and what are the qualities as told by the Vedic
astrology science. In the meantime take care be safe.