title: Ancient Hindu Astrology for the Modern Western Astrologer
author:  James T. Braha 
description: "Ever since my first journey to India I have desired to share the knowledge I was fortunate enough to receive. I have also felt a need to dispel some rather major misconceptions, the main one being the fact that Hindu astrology is extraordinarily difficult. This is not true, as will soon hopefully be revealed. Although I have always been most fascinated with astrology because of the philosophical implications and revelations which can be extracted. I have done my best to keep philosophy from this work, as that is not my present purpose. It is my intention only to present Hindu astrology in a way that it deserves to be presented, which is long overdue -- a way which western astrologers can understand and utilise, and which will clear away the mystery and finally put into perspective the enormously complex techniques which make up the bulk of most textbooks on the subject. Having worked with both Hindu and western systems, it is my experience that the two greatly complement each other and together form the basis for a complete and profound astrology." -- taken from the Introduction.
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  1 
  Astrological World Cycles 
  By Tara Mata (Laurie Pratt) Published in Serial Format in 1932-33 
  IN a series of articles, of which this is the first, the writer proposes to demonstrate the profound 
  connection of an astronomical phenomenon, known as the Precession of the Equinoxes, with the 
  history of mankind and the great cycles of the world. The true Age, or Yuga, of the present 
  world-period, in reference to the Grand Cycle of Time, symbolized by the stars in their courses, 
  will be pointed out, and certain erroneous ideas that have been circulated by modern 
  philosophical literature, due to misunderstanding of the ancient Hindu Scriptures, will be 
  corrected. The writer will attempt to make all astronomical and astrological references clear 
  enough to be understood by those with only a very elementary knowledge of those sciences. 
  Authority Is Great Hindu Sage 
  Readers of EAST-WEST will be interested to know that the chief authority for the writer’s 
  central thesis, which will b