Do different systems of astrology agree with each other ?

[AussiePagan]

Just a little something I'm curious about, do the different systems of Astrology give you the same answer ? If so, that is so cool, considering there wasn't any cultural interaction. If not, how do you know your system is the right one ?


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[2wicky]

Chinese and Western astrology meet up pretty well in interpreting my chart. I'm a Water Dog with a Dragon Ascendant in Chinese astrology (Tiger month I think) and I have a strong water influence in my chart, have an Aries Ascendant, and the descriptions for Dog are very fitting for me. When I mesh my Western astrology chart into a whole picture it's surprisingly similar to what Chinese astrology has to say. There's a lot of the same themes. Just like Eastern and Western medicine, they might come to the same conclusion as to what the illness is (although maybe not) but their methods are very different. Or something.

I think both have value, and if you're talking about Vedic, it has value as well. It's different but has the same roots of Western astrology and a similar style so I just went to Chinese.


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[Fluffmeister]

Kepler College has a Western astrologer (Lee Lehman) and a Vedic astrologer (Dennis Harness) working together - they've said they get similar interpretations using very different systems.

I don't find this too surprising - usually, an astrologer will spot a theme in a chart; in other words, you get the message from several different supposedly independent parts of the chart (for instance, "workaholic" could show up as a strong Saturn, lots of planets in the 10th and so on - in theory, there's no "reason" why having a strong Saturn should also mean you've got lots of planets in the 10th; but in practice, you'll often find these connections). I think this is because there is no such thing as coincidence.