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The Sun and the Moon which affect the sea-water causing tides are bound to affect all the store of fluids on the surface of the earth or contained in the vegetable kingdom or in human beings. Blood is not only a fluid but contains the same salts that are dissolved in the ocean and that too practically in the same proportion. This similarity between the composition of salts in blood and in sea-water is not accidental.

The universe is either cosmos or chaos; it cannot be partly ruled by law and partly by chance. The universe and the life activities are regulated by certain laws. If the Sun and the planetary bodies are subject to discipline and their movements and phenomena are ac- cording to a certain order, then the lives of individuals who inhabit the planetary systems must also be guided by certain definite laws and rules. The indications of planets are something like show-cause no- tices of a legal court. The sections mentioned therein are technical and they indicate with what sort of commission or omission of duty the person is charged with. He must make preparations to meet them. Astrology therefore does not lead to a weakening of the will. Astrology explains life’s reactions to planetary vibrations. In Sanskrit, it is called Hora Sastra or Jyotisha or the Science of Time. Astrology is primarily concerned with the application of cosmic laws to terrestrial phenomena in general and man in particular. The grahas are nine in astrology — the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu. A graha is defined as a celestial physical body (such as the Sun, Moon etc.) or a geo- metrical point (such as Rahu, Ketu) with a field of force of its own. In this sense, the term planet is inadequate to describe the graha of Astrology, although it is used frequently. GRAHAS AND PHENOMENA Lawrence J. Benditt, an M.D. of Cambridge University, and Phoebe D. Peyne have argued that we are faced either with the fact that the extraordinarily accurate readings of astrological maps without the astrologer ever having seen the person are purely psychic or intuitive, or else with a mystery which goes deep down into the question of the relationship of man with the seeming objective world, whether as shown in the heavens or the more mundane sphere of everyday contacts.

Astrological Conjunctions An astrological

conjunction to the position of other planets vis-a-vis Earth, but to the proximity of two or more planets on the eclip- tic as seen from Earth. Conjunctions occur on the Birth Chart when the planet falls within an orb, or arc of tolerance, of up to 8-9°. The conjunction of two planets is a focal point of the Chart, and lays stress according to the characteristics of the houses and signs concerned. relates not

Hindu astrologers have given predictions for each day of the lunar month. For the eighth day, that is, when the Sun and the Moon are 90° apart this diminishes each other’s attractions on the fluids. The blood in the human beings remains thus comparatively in an undisturbed state from outside influences and any medicine newly started on this day is bound to be more effective if it is properly chosen and this is briefly stated as Ashtami Vyadhinash- ini. The Hindus enjoined certain restrictions in regard to food, etc., a few hours prior to the actual occurrence of an eclipse and during the duration of the eclipse; for the Moon would screen off cor- puscles streaming from the Sun at 100 miles per second and the effect would be some sort of corpuscular shadow and the earth would feel the effect of this corpuscular shadow some two hours prior to the arrival of the “light shadow”. Recent studies in connection with radio signals reveal a relatively low ionisation

Rotation right On the Earth-centred Birth Chart the start- ing-point for the Sun's daily rotation is at sun- rise (A). The other Suns at B, C and D mark the respective positions of noon, sun- set and midnight.

The Tides above The Sun and Moon pull in the same direction to cause spring tides, left; when they pull at right angles their effect is weakened and the weak tides,'right, are produced, the difference between high and low tides then being minimal.