Deep Dive with Dr Steve Moreau: Explaining Vedic Astrology

You know, there's quite a bit and I want to kind of keep my answers somewhat brief, but at the same time enough.

So really the main difference that I, as I described to people is Vedic astrology is in the branches of what is called traditional astrology, meaning the astrology as it was practiced a thousand, 2000, 3000 years ago.

And in the same sense of people were going for actual concrete events, right? Um, it was less about personality.

which is more kind of what Western has become, right? Modern Western.

But they were doing things like back in the day, for instance, first of all, it was only the higher echelon, kings, queens, the higher court that would actually have been able to get a reading, right? And so a lot of those things were geared towards, will there be war this year? What crops should we do, right? Like these type of portends and things.

If there's an eclipse, what should we do? Because we see when there's an eclipse, there tends to be issues with the government and the leadership, those type of things.

Then it filtered down to the more common folks.

And when it kind of exploded, was when but people still asking similar questions.

So they needed concrete events right in their lives.

Children, should I buy this mule? Should I plant this crop? Right.

These type of things.

So it's really more along those lines.

And then, of course, there became kind of a spiritual component to it in terms of using that to see kind of what people's spiritual propensities were.

But it was very much this way.

So that's traditional.

And that's the vein that astrology Vedic astrology is in Western astrology.

Its roots were similar.

But around the time of the European Enlightenment, there started being a deep skepticism about what astrology was and should we do it, right? So they more or less kind of dropped that.

And mind you, in the Middle Ages in Europe, they were studying astrology in the universities at those times.

So it was part and parcel, right? Copernicus, these people that we think of, Kepler, you know, all these people that we revere today, they actually studied astrology.

And so that episode has kind of been downplayed.

And so they kind of branched off into like, okay, this is, you know, let's, so astrology was kind of a dying art.

And it was really kind of revived in late 1800s, early 1900s in England as part of a revival.

His name was Alan Leo.

That was his stage name.

You know, there's quite a bit and I want to kind of keep my answers somewhat brief, but at the same time enough.

So really the main difference that I, as I described to people is Vedic astrology is in the branches of what is called traditional astrology, meaning the astrology as it was practiced a thousand, 2000, 3000 years ago.

And in the same sense of people were going for actual concrete events, right? Um, it was less about personality.

which is more kind of what Western has become, right? Modern Western.

But they were doing things like back in the day, for instance, first of all, it was only the higher echelon, kings, queens, the higher court that would actually have been able to get a reading, right? And so a lot of those things were geared towards, will there be war this year? What crops should we do, right? Like these type of portends and things.

If there's an eclipse, what should we do? Because we see when there's an eclipse, there tends to be issues with the government and the leadership, those type of things.

Then it filtered down to the more common folks.

And when it kind of exploded, was when but people still asking similar questions.

So they needed concrete events right in their lives.

Children, should I buy this mule? Should I plant this crop? Right.

These type of things.

So it's really more along those lines.

And then, of course, there became kind of a spiritual component to it in terms of using that to see kind of what people's spiritual propensities were.

But it was very much this way.

So that's traditional.

And that's the vein that astrology Vedic astrology is in Western astrology.

Its roots were similar.

But around the time of the European Enlightenment, there started being a deep skepticism about what astrology was and should we do it, right? So they more or less kind of dropped that.

And mind you, in the Middle Ages in Europe, they were studying astrology in the universities at those times.

So it was part and parcel, right? Copernicus, these people that we think of, Kepler, you know, all these people that we revere today, they actually studied astrology.

And so that episode has kind of been downplayed.

And so they kind of branched off into like, okay, this is, you know, let's, so astrology was kind of a dying art.

And it was really kind of revived in late 1800s, early 1900s in England as part of a revival.

His name was Alan Leo.

That was his stage name.