title: Light on Relationships: The Synastry of Indian Astrology
author:  Hart Defouw 
description: Some are born under a star, Some are born seeing stars.<P>Building on some of the best principles from both Eastern and Western astrological traditions, authors Hart de Fouw and Robert E. Svoboda present a synthesized approach to horoscope compatibility analysis, developed over years of experimentation. This approach blends principles of analysis familiar to those who have studied Indian astrology with lesser-known techniques culled from the classic texts and oral traditions of Jyotisha. Their technique bridges the chasm between Western horoscope comparison and the culture-specific traditions of Indian astrology.<P>De Fouw and Svoboda provide sample charts to illustrate the techniques they use; they examine compatibility issues, and look at the strength or potential of a relationship. The authors maintain that your chart outlines your fate only in that it reflects your traits and ideals -- karmas dictated by past actions and conditioning -- which can be mediated by exercising free will. Chart analysis then becomes a useful tool for self-awareness when examining a relationship: what strengths complement each other and what weaknesses will require conscious work.<P>A nodding acquaintance with the principles presented in Light on Relationships will make it easier for you to understand the Indian relationship paradigm; a thorough study of the techniques and examples can provide you with valuable tools for evaluating all types of human relationships. This is a most valuable book for contemporary students of Jyotisha and for all astrologers who want to work with relationship potential.
zlib_text: MYSTERIES
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  India’s Vedic Astrology: The Science Of Light
  Alexander Light
   September 7, 2014
  While most people in the Western world are aware of astrology,
  comparatively few know that other cultures have other systems of
  astrology.
  There are Chinese and Tibetan horoscopes, with their cycles of twelve
  signs going through years rather than months, so that the key to your
  character is the year, not the month, you were born in: the Year of the
  Dog, Dragon, Tiger, and so on.
  But the nation that probably has the oldest and richest astrological
  tradition is India. Indian astrology bears some strong resemblances to its
  Western counterpart: the signs of the zodiac are more or less the same,
  as is the significance of the planets.
  (Indian astrology, however, uses only the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars,
  Jupiter, and Saturn, as well as the Sun and the Moon, in its analysis.)
  In India, however, astrology is taken much more seriously than in the
  West.
  Few Indian parents would see