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Understanding Your Concern
Jyotish is not a single method. Several systems sit inside it, they weight different techniques, and two competent practitioners working in different schools can read the same chart differently without either being wrong.
The Principal Systems
Parashari is the mainstream, built on house lordships, planetary dignity and the vimshottari dasha. It underlies most of what is practised in India today and it is the system used here.
Jaimini works from a different apparatus of karakas and its own dasha schemes. Tajika is used chiefly for annual charts. Nadi is a separate tradition again, and the Krishnamurti system is a twentieth-century development with its own sub-lord method.
- Parashari: house lordships, dignity and the vimshottari dasha
- Jaimini: karakas and its own dasha schemes
- Tajika: used chiefly for annual and return charts
- Krishnamurti: a twentieth-century system with a sub-lord method
Why This Matters to a Client
It explains the commonest frustration people have with this field: two astrologers, two different readings. Frequently they are using different systems, or a different ayanamsha, and neither is being careless.
So the useful thing to ask is which system a practitioner works in, and to prefer one who answers rather than treating the question as impertinent.
- Different readings often mean different systems, not carelessness
- The ayanamsha used also shifts placements slightly
- Asking which system is used is a reasonable question
- A practitioner who will not answer it has told you something
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How Your Consultation Works
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State the System
The method used here is Parashari, and where a technique from elsewhere is applied, that is said.
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Show the Working
Conclusions come with the placement and the rule behind them, which is what makes a system checkable.
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Explain a Disagreement
Where a previous reading differed, the likely reason is identified rather than the other practitioner dismissed.
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