Kalapurusha: the signs on the body
Jyotish places the twelve signs on the body of time, Aries at the head to Pisces at the feet.
- 6-minute lesson
- Basic course: Samudrika Shishya
- Samudrika Shastra
- The body of time
- How it is used
A first look at the lesson
Jyotish places the twelve signs on Kalapurusha, the person of time: Aries the head, Taurus the face, Gemini the shoulders and arms, Cancer the chest, Leo the belly, Virgo the waist, Libra the lower belly, Scorpio the private parts, Sagittarius the thighs, Capricorn the knees, Aquarius the shins and Pisces the feet.
The map links each part of the body to a sign. This course only names the map; reading the body from a birth chart comes in a later course, once you hold the Basic Astrology certificate.
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More lessons on this subject
- Reading from the feet upThe order the texts read a body in: the feet first, up to the head, then the whole person.
- What Samudrika Shastra isAn old Indian study of the whole body's marks and features, where it sits in Jyotish, and what it is not.
- The texts of SamudrikaBrihat Samhita, the Garuda Purana, Samudrika Tilaka, the Jain Angavijja and Charaka: what each gives.
- Reading old texts todayThe texts reflect their age; the fixed limits every Samudrika reader keeps, and why.
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