Astro-Ethnobiology — Jyotiṣa, Human Character, and the Ecology of the Cosmos

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Astro-Ethnobiology — Jyotiṣa, Human Character, and the Ecology of the Cosmos

The observation that the cosmos shapes the person did not begin with astrology as entertainment. In Indian knowledge systems, Jyotiṣa — the science of light — was one of the six Vedāṅgas, a limb of the Veda, understood as indispensable to understanding how the individual organism is embedded in the larger ecological field. This 2005 paper, published in the Journal…

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