(This article is an endeavor to understand the functioning of astrology at a deep karmik level. It explores the journey of soul from the death at the previous life to the birth of next one at a specific time, which is derived by the soul’s desire to take birth in the context of that specific planetary magnetic field. It explains the formation of our current personality through the Astral Body and the mechanism of the various events over the total span of life.)

Astrology is a science to understand the motives of the soul in the present incarnation. It also depicts the journey it will pass through in the process of evolution and learning. Hence every soul chooses its moment of birth based of what it intends to go through in present life. In it’s previous birth, when the soul left the body, its unfulfilled aspirations remained accumulated in the form of Manas Shareer (The body of Mana or mind), which is the third body from below in the hierarchy of our seven bodies after the Sthool Shareer (The Physical Body) and Pran Shareer (The body of breathing). The body of mind is like the accumulation of past experiences, memories, aspirations, frustrations, guilt and everything else we go through while living our lives. However, this body has no awareness of the overall journey the soul goes through over innumerable lives during its journey through the vast patch of time. It is the fourth body, the Sakshi Shareer (The Astral Body / The Auric Body or the Body of Witnessing), which is aware of it’s overall journey and the ultimate goal of the soul. Hence, the choices of the time of birth are made by the Astral Body, which is in tune with the further journey soul urges to commence.

At the time of death, soul leaves with the body of mind and the Astral body. It intends to take birth, when it will have the right circumstances to move closer to its ultimate objective of becoming one with Param Atma (The God), and hence the Astral body can gain further strength. It takes birth when the Aura of the body matches with the environmental aura, which is the resultant of the inter relations of the magnetic fields of various planets, constellations and other such cosmic bodies. This aura enters with the first breath inhaled by the child after birth and creates a permanent impression similar to the first rays of light falling upon the exposed photo plate and creating a permanent impression in the form of the picture. Hence the Astral body enters the physical body and it begins on a new journey afresh along with the stored memories of the mind body from all the previous lives and karmas. Hence through the astral body, our physical body connects with the magnetic fields of the various planets and other cosmic bodies. This planetary aura interacts with the mind body or the previous experiences and memories to create our thought patterns and the feelings. This is how our personality is formed, which is defined with the help of the Science of Astrology. Hence it can be said that all the planets, Nakshatras and Zodiacs resides in our own bodies. At the same time, the lord of Jyotish as well as the lord of all the planets, the Shiva, also lives in our body through the higher fifth, sixth and seventh bodies, the bodies of Ananda (Bliss), Chit (Consciousness) and Sat (Truth).

Let us now understand, how Astrology predicts the events by way of planetary movements. The moving planets are constantly creating the impulses based on the interaction of their magnetic fields. This creates the overall aura and is responsible for the mass trends witnessed from time to time. Major events, which impact the large masses, and shape the destiny of various nations and the planet earth, are predicted through such readings. However for individual predictions, one needs to study the impact of this changing planetary aura on the individual personality. The permanent astral pattern within us, which was imbibed at the moment of our first breath, makes us catch only certain planetary impulses and ignore others. This is similar to radio catching only certain sound waves emitted from a particular radio station at a given frequency, while ignoring every other kind of sound. Since all of us have a different astral pattern, the changing planetary positions impact us differently. Such planetary movements create impulses, which create thoughts and feeling by way of interactions with our individual astral pattern. Such thoughts results in action, which creates events after interacting with the actions of others.