ASCENDANT IN INDIAN
ASTROLOGY
ARUN ROY
MUKHERJEE
In Indian Astrology
Ascendant holds a key position. The physical and mental features as well as
nature and character of a person are determined on the basis of his ascendant.
The planets which are beneficial, harmful or neutral are determined on it. It
also determines the zodiac signs and the lords who play important parts in
deciding about the wealth, education, income, occupation, marriage and marital
life, children, relatives, nature of calling and many other things. In Indian
astrology when a horoscope is cast, the astrologer, therefore, first arrive at
the ascendant of the person based on the birth date, time and place of the
person.
What is the ascendant ?
In short, the ascendant of a person in his horoscope, is the zodiac sign which
rises on the eastern horizon at the time of his birth. Say, a child is born at
4.30 Am at a certain place on a certain date. The astrologer, with the help of
a Panchang or almanac or according to the positional astronomy, finds out the
zodiac sign rising on the eastern horizon at that particular place on that date
and time. The rising zodiac is the ascendant of the new born. The ascendant is
considered as the first house. In the above case if Libra is rising, then Libra
is considered as the ascendant and 1st house of the new born child.
Scorpio onwards to Virgo are the 2nd to 12th houses
respectively of the child. We all know that a day is divided into 24 hours and
there are 12 zodiac signs in the sky. Therefore the ascendant or the zodiac
sign rising on the eastern horizon changes roughly every two hours. The
ascendant sign of children taking birth on the same date and place changes
accordingly as per the time of their birth.
The vital question is
when the ascendant has so much importance in horoscope and in astrology for
prediction purposes, is the method applied to calculate and arrive at the
ascendant is accurate? The method adopted is to find the zodiac sign which
appears to rise on the eastern horizon on the date and place at the appointed
time. We are aware that a zodiac sign is an imaginary figure arrived at by
drawing imaginary lines between some stars which appears to be close to each
other on a plane surface in the sky. The fact however is that those stars are
far apart from one another both horizontally and also vertically and have no
relationship among those as a cogent and homogenous and homologous body capable
of a concerted power and action. Therefore, we know that zodiac signs, which
are imaginary creations of human beings, comprises of stars. We must also note
three more factors which are a) that the stars are far away in the sky, 2) we
see an object either when the light emitted from it reaches our eyes or when
light is reflected from the object and hits our eyes and 3) that it takes time
for the light to travel from the object to our eyes on earth. It may be noted
here that light travels at a speed of 186000 miles per second. But most of the
stars are so far away from us that the light from those stars, even travelling
at so high speed of 186000 miles per second requires a number of years. There
are stars in our Milky Way galaxy light from which takes more than 100 years to
reach us. Light from most of the stars in the 12 zodiac signs takes about 50 to
500 years to reach the earth.
In that context,
keeping in mind the facts stated above, it may be safely concluded that when we
see a star and a zodiac sign at a particular position the sky, the said star or
the zodiac sign was at that position only at some 50 or 500 years ago according
to the distance it is situated away from earth and not now when it appears
before our eyes. If a star is 50 light years away from earth its today’s
position at a particular point of time in the sky will be known only after 50
years when the light emitted by it now will reach our eyes. Therefore when we
see a zodiac sign rising on the eastern horizon and decide the ascendant in the
horoscope, it is not done on the basis of facts but on a seeming assumption and
as it appears but not truly.
In Indian astrology all
horoscope are prepared and ascendants are calculated on the basis of that
seeming assumption and as it appears and on not the basis of facts. The zodiac
signs are imaginary figures and the calculation of ascendant is done on a
faulty basis. The entire prediction process in astrology is, therefore,
blatantly faulty and imaginary devoid of
any relation with the facts.
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