This debate of Astrology as a science has been immemorial. Preponderance of oriental and many modern pundits engaged in the pursuit of truth swear that Astrology is a science. Not based on the cardinal principles of experiments, observation and inference but knowledge handed down by generation to generation and as old as the Vedas. Astrology forms part of the Vedas, the Rigveda being the oldest. It is an intrinsic empirical knowledge and is called a divine science. It is a science that applies cosmic principles to everyday life. It is an admitted system of observation and interpretation of movement of planets and their influence on the beings inhabiting our planet earth. This quintessence of experience is brought to man by the ancient sages who bequeathed to us the great treasures of the Upanishads.

Man is made from the five elements of nature and contains over eighty percent of water. The waters of the oceans and seas drawn by the magnetic effect of moon causing tides is well known to man.

The Sun, Moon and the planets have a bearing upon the happenings in the solar system. Evidence is not lacking that these heavenly bodies have influence on humans, animals and plants. The Sun and the Moon in angular positions churn oceans back and forth causing tides. The Moon’s influence on the human mind and temperament, the effect of sun spots on the weather, Electronic radiation from heavenly bodies produces molecular change in the earth’ s atmosphere, while the molecular changes in the atmosphere in turn produce cellular changes in the organic bodies. Such cellular changes affect the nine main functional glands in the human body and the actions of these glands is recognised by psychologists as having a bearing on human behaviour.

‘’Astrology is astronomy brought to earth and applied to the affairs of men’’ wrote Ralph waldo Emerson. Sir Isaac Newton who propounded the famous law of universal gravitation also applies to Kepler’s Laws of stellar science. Astrology is a behavioural science more empirical and we find in treatises ample references in Siddhanta Shiromani written by Bhaskaracharya about the truths of astrological sciences. Hippocrates, father of medicine went as far as to assert that a medical practitioner without astrological knowledge cannot safely administer medicine, implying that the state of disease, its course and time of recovery, can be inferred by a look of the patient’s horoscope. A physician without knowledge of astrology is like a lamp without oil said Dr. Nicholas Culpeper.

Astrology provides the key and attempts to unravel what is in store for us in the present state of existence. A horoscope in other words, is the heavenly view at any particular time and, as Dr. C. G Jung says” A person is of vintage of the ‘time he was born ‘and like the vintage of wine. It cannot be changed.” The study of Vedic astrology informs us our inherent tastes, desires, capacities, our mental – psychic and physical peculiarities. It could mark the time when the postulated events could happen in the life of a human being.