How does the Indian vedic astrology differ from western astrology?
Astrology has existed all over the world and at all times. It was most prevalent in ancient religious cultures like those of Egypt and Babylonia. In Europe and the Middle East, these ritualistic cultures came to an end and were replaced by medieval cultures of Christian and Islamic varieties. These medieval cultures continued to use astrology, which they adapted from the earlier cultures, but it became a secondary pursuit. The religion of the One God would not admit the powers of the gods. Astrology is a good point of dialogue and interchange between the East and the West, the ancient vedic system and the modern system. It links together the greatest diversity of cultures in the most common perceptions and aspirations of humanity. The two different methods of determining the signs of zodiac exist. Each is based on a different kind of calculation. Neither is necessarily wrong. Both are using different measurements, though they employ the same language to speak of them. The signs of the
