The parts of Jyotish
Jyotish has three branches, and every chart is built from grahas, rashis, nakshatras and bhavas.
- 6-minute lesson
- Basic course: Jyotish Shishya
- Vedic astrology
- The science of light
- The grahas
- The rashis and the nakshatras
- The bhavas
A first look at the lesson
Jyotish comes from jyoti, light: it is the study of the lights in the sky. The tradition divides it into three branches.
The first building block is the graha: the nine moving bodies and points that Jyotish follows across the sky.
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More lessons on this subject
- The sky is a mapSee how a birth chart freezes the sky, and why it has 12 signs.
- The 12 rashis in orderLearn the 12 signs in order, with their numbers, Sanskrit names and what each name pictures.
- Counting from a signCount the 4th, 7th or 12th sign from any sign, and find the sign opposite it.
- The four elementsFire, earth, air and water: every sign belongs to one, in a pattern that repeats every four signs.
Your first lesson takes about five minutes
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