On 11/2/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How is time of birth measured? When labor begins? When the head of the > > baby peeps into the world? When the feet of the baby leaves the > > mother's body? When the umbilical chord is cut? Isn't the interval > > between all these things in the order of a few minutes? > > Shridhar Daithankar over on LI* is also an amateur astrologer, and his > family are traditional astrologers over several generations. I asked him > for an exact answer. > > However, what he told me when I discussed this with him sometime back more > or less gets borne out by this very detailed blog post .. > > http://jyotishavedika.blogspot.com/2006/01/defining-time-of-birth.html
Looking at this analytically, it seems that after a person is old enough you should be able to look at their lives and back compute when their moment of birth must have been, given the events in their lives. >From that you should be able to predict with a high degree of accuracy what will happen going forward. It's like what I like to do when a friend asks me my "sign." "You know me well enough, what must it be?" If astrology actually has real predictive value, it must work both ways. Before the fact - if you were born at <x> time then <y> will happen, and after the fact - given that <y> happened, you must have been born at <x> time. Both are useful for testing the predictive value of astrology, and the second is much easier to observe. -- Charles
