Astrological Days, Signs, Planets

and Horoscopes
Days, Signs, Planets
This book is being written without dealing with the
mathematical part. If you read it step by step and then
see your own and others horoscope, you will be able to
understand, technically, the astrological discussion. You
will also get familiar with the terminology of Hindu
astrology.
Days of the Week
To do that remember the first lesson in three parts: start
counting the weekdays Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. These seven
days represent seven planets Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury,
Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.
In Hindu astrology we make use of two other planets,
called the shadowy planets, called Rahu and Ketu. This
gives you a total of nine planets. It is why we have the
famous navagraha stotra or worship of nine planets.

Note : In Hindu astrology we do not use, Uranus

(Herschel), Pluto and Neptune. In the scheme of stotra
these planets have no place, though an American has
given mantras for these three planets also in his book
which is not given in any book of Hindu astrology we have
or know of.
Note : Now, also remember the sacred number 108
which are the number of beads we have in the garland, of
tulasi or rudraksha with which we do our japam.
The part of the first lesson is: there are 27 Nakshatras or
Asterisms or Lunar mansions that we make use of in
Hindu astrology. It is a very remarkable, brilliant and
subtle division which is being explained later.
Each nakshatra has four equal parts. Again you will see
that twenty-seven multiplied by four gives you one
hundred and eight number (108) which are the number of
beads we have in the garland, of tulasi or rudraksha with
which we do our japam.
Now see all this in the table given here:

Name of Day Ruler of the Day

1. Ravivar or 1. Ravi, Surya, Bhanu

Sunday or Sun

2. Somavar or 2. Chandra, Indu or

Monday Moon or Luna

3. Mangalvar 3. Mangal, Kuja or Mars

orTuesday

4. Budhavar or 4. Budha or Mercury

Wednesday

5. Brihaspativar or 5. Guru, Brihaspati or

Thursday Jupiter

6. Shukravar or 6. Shukra, Bhargava or

 Friday Venus

7. Shanivar or 7. Saturn, Shani, or

Saturday Manda

Note : No days are allotted for Rahu or Ketu. South

Indian astrologers allot a specified time on each of the
days for Rahu and call it Rahukalam during which time
they avoid all auspicious work.
Note : Rahu and Ketu cannot be seen through any
telescope like other planets. Yet, how effective and
accurate is their use in Hindu astrology clearly proves that
the ancient rishis combined their knowledge of physical
sciences with metapysical knowledge which we call Yogic.

In Astrology Lesson 2 we will learn about Nakshatras and do

some astrological exercises to deepen our understanding of
the concepts we have learnt.

Nakshatras

Now you must know something about the twenty-seven nakshatras. Each nakshatra takes
13 degrees and 20 minutes uniformly. If 13'20 is multiplied by 27 it gives you 360 which is
the total equal to the twelve houses referred to earlier.

There are two methods of tabulating these Nakshatras.

One method shows the degrees of Nakshatras from 0 to360 and the other shows the
degrees occupied by each Nakshatra in each sign.