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 of Human Ecology (vol. 17, no. 4) by Padhy, Dash, and Padmavati, examines that claim from an ethno-biological perspective. The term "astro-ethnobiology" is not standard in Western academic literature, but the concept it points to is clear: the study of how human communities have understood and lived within the relationship between celestial rhythms and biological life. Padhy, Dash, and Padmavati…