During the Vedic period, India’s first known usage of astrology was documented. Astrology, or jyotia, is classified as a Vedanga, or branch of the Vedic religion’s Vedas. The Vedanga Jyotisha, which contains rules for tracking the motions of the sun and moon over a five-year intercalation cycle, is the only work of this class that has survived. The dating of this work is unknown since its late style of language and composition, which is consistent with the last decades BC, albeit pre-Mauryan, contradicts internal evidence of a far older date in the 2nd millennium BC. Astronomy and astrology developed in tandem in India. During the Vedic era, the sage Bhrigu authored the Bhrigu Samhita, the first treatise on Jyotisha. Bhirgu is one of the revered Saptarishi, or seven Vedic sages, and is known as the “Father of Hindu Astrology.” The Saptarishis are also represented by the Ursa Major constellation’s seven primary stars.
The interplay of Indian and Hellenistic cultures through the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Kingdoms is linked to the documented history of Jyotisha in the subsequent newer sense of modern horoscopic astrology. The earliest extant treatises, such as the Yavanajataka and the Brihat-Samhita, come from the early decades of the Christian era. The Yavanajataka (“Sayings of the Greeks”), a versification by Sphujidhvaja in 269/270 AD of a now lost translation of a Greek treatise by Yavanesvara during the 2nd century AD under the patronage of the Indo-Scythian king Rudradaman I of the Western Satraps, is the oldest astrological treatise in Sanskrit.
The Samhita (Compilation), written on tree bark pages, is supposed to include five million horoscopes for everyone who has lived or will live in the future. The first known authors authoring treatises on astronomy come from the 5th century AD, which is considered the start of Indian astronomy’s classical period. Aside from Aryabhata’s theories in the Aryabhatiya and the lost Arya-siddhnta, there is Varahamihira’s Pancha-Siddhntika.
Someone who writes horoscopes is known as a horoscope writer.
A horoscope (also known as a natal chart, astrological chart, astro-chart, celestial map, sky-map, star-chart, cosmogram, vitasphere, radical chart, radix, chart wheel, or simply chart) is an astrological chart or diagram that depicts the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, astrological aspects, and sensitive angles at the time of an event, such as a person’s birth. The phrases “horoscope” and “observer” (horoskopos, pl. horoskopoi, or “marker(s) of the hour”) are derived from the Greek words ra and scopos, which mean “time” and “observer,” respectively. It is utilized as a means of divination for occurrences related to the time period it symbolizes, and it is the foundation of astrology’s horoscopic traditions. Print and internet media frequently publish horoscope articles.
In general usage, horoscope refers to an astrologer’s interpretation, which is usually based on a system of solar Sun sign astrology, which is based only on the position of the Sun at the moment of birth, or, as in Chinese astrology, on the calendar significance of an event. Many newspapers and magazines, in particular, publish predictive columns written in prose that may be written more for increasing readership than for directly relating to the Sun or other aspects of the solar system, allegedly based on celestial influences in relation to the zodiacal placement of the Sun on the person’s month of birth, cusp (two days before or after any particular sign, an overlap), or decant (the month divided into three ten-day periods), id
Birth charts are known as kuali in Hindu astrology, and they are said to be based on the movement of the stars and moon. After checking a person’s kuali, auspicious events and ceremonies are initiated, including marriages in which the birth charts of the boy and girl are matched.
There are no scientific studies that back up the accuracy of horoscopes, and the methods for interpreting them are pseudo-scientific.
Is astrology backed up by science?
Astrology is a collection of belief systems that assert that there is a connection between astrological phenomena and events or personality traits in the human world. The scientific community has dismissed astrology as having no explanatory power for describing the universe. Scientific testing has discovered no evidence to back up the astrological traditions’ premises or alleged effects.