Vedic Astrology for Beginners: An Introduction to the Origins and Core Concepts of Jyotish

Western Astrology no longer cuts it for me- started to find it too superficial to provide me with deep spiritual meanings. I’ve been desperate to learn Vedic or Jyotish but often put off by the Sanskrit terms that I don’t understand. I’d hoped to find someone who could translate and explain the basics of Vedic and with my background of years studying Contemporary Western Astrology, I found it easy to fully grasp this book.I like that the author also understands both types of Astrology as it makes it easy to see from different angles. The book is very clear and well put together.. Very grateful to have found this book as I am currently searching and hoping to find the keys to the Real Astrology.

The author has described fundamentals of Vedic Astrology in clear, simple & accurate terms. I highly recommend it to anyone who's learning Astrology.

Thank you, Pamela, for writing this book!What a gift for anyone interested in Vedic Astrology—and there has never been a better time for it. If you have ever looked at your birth chart and felt you’re facing a tangled web of words and foreign concepts that do more to confuse you than enlighten, get this book!Pamela breaks it all down in a way that’s easy to digest. You can use this to put together the aspects in your chart to gain a broad overview, as well as a deep grasp of each aspect and how they all work together. You will reach for it again and again.

I enjoyed reading his book and it was my first introduction to learning about Vedic astrology. If you are desiring to learn what Vedic Astrology is about - this should to be your first purchase. Pamela McDonough is knowledgable and breaks it down into an easy to understand format. I highly recommend this book.

Pam has made this book so accessible! Very gastrology can be very confusing and difficult to understand from the western mind. Pam has laid it out in a format that is so easy to understand.

Vedic astrology can be overwhelming, it's like learning a new language. This IS a lot of information to digest. Pamela has created a beautiful resource to make the journey less daunting, and more enjoyable.

Didn’t like it that much

Very clearly written and easy to understand.

Some of you may have heard of the Gaugalin ( or something like that ) brothers,& their up to 40 000 ( or was it 60 000 ) Birth TIME data-mining,which discovered that if you, as they did,entirely-throw-away the interpretation-systems of "astrology",& ONLY look at the location of the specific planets,in relation to the horizon,when somebody was born,then several striking & improbable results consistently ( across different data-sets ) occur:1. improbable-correlations only occur among *natural*, not institutionally-induced, births' times( it is normal for materialist medicine to push drugs as a means ofmaking births happen when convenient to the institution.Those induced-birth-times have no significantimprobable correlation with relative planetary-location. )2. the improbable-correlations are in a consistent Pattern:having the planet in question be closer to 0 or 90 degrees to the horizon,or having it be closer to 45 degrees to the horizon.3. if it is an exceptional Musician,then it is Venus that is closer to 0 or 90 degrees to the horizon.4. if it is a Purple Heart, or a Career General,then it is Mars that is closer to 0 or 90 degrees to the horizon.5. if it is an exceptional Painter,then it is Saturn that is closer to 45 degrees to the horizon.6. if it is some exceptional Scientist,then it is Saturn that is closer to 0 or 90 degrees to the horizon.7. the Jupiter correlation I simply can't remember.Scientism rejects that Universe can do that,of course,so ignores/denies the data, as prejudice consistently does.Why mention all that?Jyotish seems to correlate more with what the Gaugalins discovered.This book is a treasure,and I hope more-in-depth books follow it,for us who cannot do the apprenticeship thing( I'm autistic: social-process is too-consistently abuse, solitude is peace, for me, e.g.& the whole point of Living is Learning, right? : )These books can help deepen one's understandings of our meanings,*in harmony with* the understandings Jyotish gives:Dr. David Frawley's "Ayurvedic Healing, revised edition"( try the ingredients-list in it! : )Frawley & Kozak's "Yoga for YOUR Type", i've read the kindle is defective somehow, so get the wonderful physical-book, & try its understanding!"Exploring Culture", so you can better understand *culturally-induced instincts*!( the 5 *dimensions* of national cultures )"Tribal Leadership" by Logan & 2 others, on the 5 LEVELS of culture,because if you don't understand how the different kinds of toxicity-to-health *in different levels*affects what a someone *can be*,then how can you have leverage in improving someone's life-function, right?"Immunity to Change", not fun to read ( damn academic style ), but important:this is on the 1st 5 *stages of mental development*.Social-consensus is 1 of those stages, systems-of-systems is the last identified one( Vajrayana went well beyond 5 stages,with bodhichitta, no-ego, emptiness-of-self-inherency, etc,but western-psychology stops there ).Elisabeth Haich's "Wisdom of the Tarot" that /should/ have been called:"the life-stage Archetypes ("cards") & what each one means,& why they are presented as being possible in different/individual orders!"More wisdom in this book than in anyone else's books, except Padmasambhava, to me..."Women's Ways of Knowing" ( 4 authors )"Knowledge Difference & Power" ( same 4 authors )"That's what SHE Said!" ( Lipman )"Fire in the Belly" ( Keen )"The Sexual Paradox" ( Susan Pinker, not related to Stephen )all fit together giving true & deep understanding of human gendered meaning.Leaving any 1 of those out, puts holes in one's understanding!"Games People Play""Scripts People Live""People of the Lie""The Nurture Assumption, 2nd edition""Snakes in Suits"are books that identify the mechanisms we are *trained into*,or mechanisms of dysfunction that harm us from within, or through others.Immunize yourself against harm, through understanding!Nurture assumption is more positive, the others show how humankind destroys worth,through training or innate-nature,but all are critical to coming through one's whole life, worth-intact!"Lead Right for YOUR Company's TYPE"that one may seem bizarre to include,but it is fundamental:NEVER operate in mechanistic/Control/manufactory/enforcement mode,when the appropriate mode is infirmary-cultivating-kindergarten /healing/ mode!Knowing the fundamental process-modes, & when each is appropriate,& how to identify the different ones,& what kind of awareness/knowing/orientation is required in each,should be taught in high-school.Important stuff!Here's a nuke:Huston Smith's "World Religions, anniversary edition".While Elisabeth Haich pours more wisdom into her big books than any other human mind does,Huston Smith actually comes close, & is very profound.College level, *gives us the essence of each religion's Key, the Insight/Understanding underlying it,that makes it different