In his article, ‘Pluto: A Neo-Vedic View’, Dennis Harness recounts a meeting with Narendra Desai who claimed ‘he saw an ancient Vasistha Nadi palm leaf in a museum in Madras, India, predicting three important planets would be discovered by the jyotishis of the Kali Yuga’ (the astrologers of the current age). I would argue that just because the traditional Vedic system does not easily incorporate the outer planets, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do so, albeit very carefully, so as not to confuse a system that has worked perfectly well for thousands of years. Modern Vedic astrologers use it extensively, although it is not referenced in any ancient astrology texts. The combination where all the visible planets placed one side of the nodal axis, for example. There are other things, not referred to in any ancient Jyotish texts, that are used by modern Jyotishi (Vedic astrologers). ![]() However, just because they were not discovered with telescopes, does not mean ancient seers were unaware of their existence. ![]() The outer planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were not used in traditional Jyotish (‘Vedic’ or Indian astrology) because they were not officially discovered until relatively recently their astrological significations often attributed to Rahu and Ketu, the north and south nodes of the Moon within a traditional Jyotish framework.
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