Vedic myths surrounding Venus and Mars add insight into how Vedic astrology views Venus and Mars, individually and together. Typically they focus on who has the power, who does not have it or has lost it, and what that power represents in terms of attainability.
The Western tropical astrologer is often mystified how any astrology can operate without the use of the outer planets, at minimum Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto! This talk explores how – in addition to the perspective gained from Vedic myths – much profound information comes to light by going deeper into the sign and nakshatra where the planets are located, their house position (especially from the Ascendant), the interrelationship of these planets, and the unfolding of the Vimshottari Dasa system as it pertains to these and other planets.
Vedic myths from the Puranas and elsewhere are teaching myths for the astrologer and give important clues as to how the planets reveal themselves in and out of time. We will look at various example charts to see how all this plays out, translating myth and rules of delineation into striking profiles of Venus and Mars, together and apart.
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Edith Hathaway’s new book, In Search of Destiny: Biography, History, and Culture Told through Vedic Astrology, will be her second published book on astrology, the first since 1991. She has published numerous articles, some available at her website, since she began her astrological consulting practice in 1980. In 1988-89 she wrote her first book on Western tropical astrology, published in July 1991 by Llewellyn – Navigating by the Stars: Astrology and the Art of Decision-Making. It contains much material on Astrocartography, as well as material based on methods of Uranian astrology. American astrologer and Astrocartography maverick Jim Lewis called it “a Geminian feast for the mind.” In his review of the book, the distinguished British astrologer Charles Harvey called Edith Hathaway “a real working astrologer speaking in the light of her own work and observation. More please!”
In 2011, she finally fulfills Charles Harvey’s request. Edith now writes primarily on Vedic astrology, and began these studies in 1988, marking the start of her gradual transition into Vedic astrology from Western tropical astrology, which – in turn – was a study she began in 1976, a full Jupiter cycle earlier.
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