Western astrologers, who get a lot more press, generally use the tropical zodiac as a reference system. The sidereal zodiac is the zodiac that correlates most closely with how we actually see the stars and planets in the sky from Earth. It’s not simply the twelve constellations as we see them. A zodiac is a system, or set of reference points, for locating where things are in the sky. Most Vedic astrologers, myself included, use the sidereal, “star-based” zodiac, for calculating where the planets are. I approach astrology from the Vedic tradition, called Jyotish, “the science of light,” commonly called Vedic or Hindu astrology. “It’s not in Pisces, it’s in Aries! That’s what my moon calendar says and that’s what all the other astrologers say.” What people don’t realize is that I am using the astronomical zodiac, while most Western astrologers use a different zodiacal system, one that does not line up with what we see in the sky. Almost every month I get a few responses to my blog or newsletter with people telling me I have gotten it wrong stating where the full Moon is.
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