Astrology And Superstitions
1. Introduction
”Hindu astrology, also called Indian astrology, Jyotisha or Jyotishya (from Sanskrit jyotiṣa, from jyót “light, heavenly body”), and more recently Vedic astrology, is the traditional Hindu system of astrology. It is one of the six auxiliary disciplines in Hinduism that is connected with the study of the Vedas.” –(Wikipedia)
”Astrology has been rejected by the scientific community as having no explanatory power for describing the universe. Scientific testing of astrology has been conducted, and no evidence has been found to support any of the premises or purported effects outlined in astrological traditions. There is no mechanism proposed by astrologers through which the positions and motions of stars and planets could affect people and events on Earth. In spite of its status as a pseudoscience, in certain religious, political, and legal contexts, astrology retains a position among the sciences in modern India.” –Wikipedia (source)
”Indian astrologers have consistently made claims that have been thoroughly debunked by skeptics. For example, although the planet Saturn is in the constellation Aries roughly every 30 years (e.g. 1909, 1939, 1968), the astrologer Bangalore Venkata Raman claimed that “when Saturn was in Aries in 1939 England had to declare war against Germany”, ignoring all the other dates. Astrologers regularly fail in attempts to predict election results in India, and fail to predict major events such as the assassination of Indira Gandhi. Predictions by the head of the Indian Astrologers Federation about war between India and Pakistan in 1982 also failed. In 2000, when several planets happened to be close to one another, astrologers predicted that there would be catastrophes, volcanic eruptions and tidal waves. This caused an entire sea-side village in the Indian state of Gujarat to panic and abandon their houses. The predicted events did not occur and the vacant houses were burgled.” -Wikipedia (source)
2. Astrology Decides the Fate of Men and Women
2.1 Astrology of a Man
📚Garuda Purana 1.63.9📚
The man passing urine with a loud noise shall suffer from poverty. Men destined to become kings pass urine steadily without noise. Those destined to enjoy pleasures have even bellies. Pot-bellied persons are penurious.” (source)
📚Garuda Purana 1.63.5-6📚
People destined to become: great men or kings – one hair in each pore, great scholars and Vedic interpreters – two hairs out of each pore, poor – three hairs out of each pore.” (source)
📚Garuda Purana 1.63.7-8📚
A man with a stout penis shall be poor. A man having a single scrotum will be miserable. A man having scrotums of different sizes shall become lecherous. If the scrotums are of equal size he shall be a king. A man having scrotums hanging lose will not live long. A man having badly shaped scrotum shall be poor. Men become happy if the scrotums are pale coloured and dirty in appearance.” (source)
📚Garuda Purana 1.63.15📚
If the figure of a trident or a broad-edged spear appears on the forehead the man shall be endowed with children and wealth and shall live upto hundred years.” (source)
📚Garuda Purana 1.63.19-20📚
O Rudra, the line on the palm indicates the longevity as also the enjoyment of pleasures. There is no doubt. Based on the little finger if the line of life reaches upto the middle finger the man shall live upto sixty years.” (source)
📚Garuda Purana 1.63.2📚
If the fingers are close together; if the nails are copper-coloured, if the ankles are well shaped and free from protruding nerves: if the feet are plump and shaped like the back of a tortoise the man is bound to become a king.” (source)
📚Garuda Purana 1.63.3-4📚
Rough and yellow-coloured nails, face lifted up with protruding nerves, feet shaped like winnowing sieves, toes dry and fleshless. All these indicate sorrow and poverty. There is no doubt about it. The calf resembling the trunk of an elephant with sparsely grown hairs is an excellent sign.” (source)
2.2 Astrology of a Woman
📚Garuda Purana 1.64.8📚
Woman with hairy sides and breasts and high lips: husband dies soon.” (source)
📚Garuda Purana 1.64.3📚
The woman with uneven hair and round eyes shall be unhappy everywhere and becomes widowed soon.” (source)
📚Garuda Purana 1.64.5📚
If a woman has many linear marks over her body she will suffer much; a few lines like that indicate poverty; red linear marks indicate happiness in life and black lines denote slavery.” (source)
📚Garuda Purana 1.64.10📚
If a woman has brown hairs curling upwards over her body, she is destined to become a slave even if she is born a princess.” (source)
📚Gaurda Purana 1.64.11📚
If the little finger and the thumb of a woman placed on the ground do not rest there, she is destined to be a widow and a woman of ill-repute.” (source)
📚Garuda Purana 1.64.1📚
The girl whose locks are curly, face circular in shape and the navel curling to the right makes the family flourish.” (source)
📚Garuda Purana 1.59.40📚
Add together the letters in the names of the husband and wife. Divide by three. If two is the remainder, wife is harmed, if one or zero, husband is harmed.” (source)