Almost every culture, independently, decided that the movement of the heavens meant something for life on earth.
Rooted in the Hellenistic world, Western astrology centres the Sun sign and works from the tropical zodiac—a zodiac fixed to the seasons, anchored to the equinoxes rather than to t…
Indian astrology takes a different foundation. It uses the sidereal zodiac, fixed to the actual constellations, and it centres the Moon (your Janma Rashi and its nakshatra) as much…
Chinese astrology is less about an individualised planetary chart and more about cycles of time and archetypal rhythm.
Every culture read the sky, but they read it differently. A clear comparison of Vedic, Western, Chinese and Mayan astrology—what each measures, and what each gets right.