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You can imagine retrograde motion to an overtaking car, while overtaking with respect to the speeding car the slower car appears to move backward. All planets in horoscope moves in the clockwise direction, but while in retrograde motion, they move in the reverse direction for certain period of time and then continue to move in their usual clockwise direction. For inner orbit planets there is a slight deviation which we will see later. As you can see that for outer orbit planets(compared to earth) the period of revolution around Sun and in horoscope matches exactly. The above table compares the period of revolution of planets around Sun and in a zodiac as observed from earth which is the horoscope.
EARTH IN HELIOCENTRIC ASTROLOGY FULL
In fact none of the planets in a horoscope completes a full round in one day. Hence it is obvious that Astrologer were aware of the fact that either Earth takes one year to revolve around the Sun or Sun takes one year to revolve around the earth, which we haven’t concluded yet. But in a horoscope as illustrated above(Click on image to enlarge) casted for two different dates, that is not true, for Sun to come back to the same point in Zodiac, it take one year. Hence Sun should take one day to travel around the earth, which is what Geocentric theory says. Let us take Sun for example, if Sun was revolving around earth, by observation through naked eye we know that Sun travels around the east to west in half a day and come back to eastern horizon the next day morning. Secondly none of the planets in a horoscope complete one revolution around the zodiac in a single day. Firstly, in Astrology Earth is the center of observation and not the center of universe. The stars, sun, and planets appear to revolve around the Earth each day”. The definition of Geocentric model say that the “ Earth is the center of the universe, and that all other objects orbit around it. Earth is the point of observation or the point where humans are located, hence it is completely logical that for the study of Planetary influence on human life, Earth is taken to be the center point of the horoscope, but that itself doesn’t mean that other planets are revolving around the Earth. For info on the Zodiac, please refer the previous post. Horoscope is nothing but the position of planets as seen from Earth(which is why you see Earth is marked in the center of the horoscope shown below) at a particular time mapped in a frame of reference called Zodiac. Let us look deep into the horoscope and try to figure out what was the understanding, our ancient Astrologer had about the solar system. This article is dedicated to all those science lovers who are willing to analyze, think logically and decide for themselves. But science demands reason, logic and evidence. As an student of astrology I strongly believe that the ancient seers on India who authored Astrology, who could calculate planetary positions for past, present and future, who had divine knowledge certainly could have known that planets including earth revolved around the Sun. This has lead to the myth that astrology supports geocentric theory.
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Hence earth is taken as the point of observation. I would like to stress the point from the earlier post that Astrology is the study of planetary influence on human life on earth. With this single mis-interpretation, many come to the conclusion that Astrology is not scientific. In this post, we are going to analyze about the popular myth that Astrology supports geocentric theory, i.e earth is the center of the solar system with Sun and other planets revolving around earth.