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Astrologically, Earth is divided into 360 degrees of arc, and is further divided into 12 Zodiac Signs (called houses in layman language) of 30 degrees each. The Numbers of these houses start from 1 to 12 and are named as:
- Aries
- Taurus
- Gemini
- Cancer
- Leo
- Virgo
- Libra
- Scorpio
- Sagittarius
- Capricorn
- Aquarius
- Pisces
These are controlled by the Sun and the Moon and also by 7 planets including 2 shadowy planets, totalling to nine in all.
There are also other planets like Uranus, Pluto and Neptune, but they are not accounted for in Hindu astrology, since their influence is not very effective on the human being, that is more applicable to nature's objects including plants trees and natural calamities. The main 7 planets are (1) Mars, (2) Mercury, (3) Jupiter, (4) Venus, (5) Saturn. The two shadowy planets are (6) Rahu (Dragon's head) and (7) Ketu (Dragon's tail).
Zodiac Signs are like lenses through which the planets see and act and affect all beings on Earth. The twelve houses are fields of experiences of inner, psychological and material or non-material. The total houses are disciplined into 12 zodiac signs and the prediction of a person is calculated keeping the movements of the planets in the sky at the time of the birth of an individual or of an institute with different nature and modes of human and stars, their characters and effects thereon by the planetary rotations.
If planetary effects were not there, all the human being would have been alike, all carrying dull brains with unintelligent flesh. The world would not have produced variety of genius brains such as the scientists, engineers, mathematicians, architects, writers, poets, artists, painters, designers, organisers, builders, warriors, astronomers, preachers, prophets and leaders in war and peace. Without planetary effects, all would have been carrying the dull flesh with no media man existing to report the stories of the earth and its living inhabitants.
Similar would have been the condition of plants of trees. In absence of star effects, all trees and plants would have been fruitless and without any meaning of their existence and the human beings and other creatures would not have been benefited by this.
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