Western Zodiac Gemstone

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Astrology in western popular culture is primary depends on sun sign astrology, which considers an individual’s date and place of birth and this signifies the “position of the sun” at that time. Zodiac sign for the individual depends on the placement of planets and the ascendant in that sign. In modern western astrology the signs of zodiac are believed to represent twelve basic personality types or characteristic modes of expression. The twelve signs are divided into four elements fire, earth air and water. There signs are also divided into three qualities: Cardinal, fixed and mutable.

Difference between Vedic and Western Astrology

Vedic astrology uses primarily the sidereal zodiac (in which stars are considered to be the fixed background against which the motion of the planets is measured), whereas most Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac (the motion of the planets is measured against the position of the Sun on the Spring equinox). This difference becomes only noticeable over time, after the course of several centuries, as a result of the precession of the equinoxes. Synchronically, the two systems are identical, with just a shift of the origin of the longitude by about 22 degrees, resulting on the placement of planets being differed in Western charts about 80% of the time.

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