Chinese astrology, like almost all other Chinese disciplines, reposes on four main pillars, which call for some succinct comments. These pillars are: the concept of Yang and Yin, the notion of the Five Elements, the patterns of all cosmic transformations, and finally the Chinese calendar.

"One of the most famous and interesting subjects of Medieval art and astrological discussion was the thread of cardinal and theological virtues.

The word “virtue” comes from the Latin “vir“, i.e. man. Still in Latin culture the word did not indicate just masculine gender, but a moral code, an unwritten law more important than the written one.

I see somebody found this subject a little confusing, so I want to give some details about it."

Despite its great complexity, Vedic Astrology also offers  a simple method of Prediction which gives remarkable results and should be taken into account when seeing a chart.

"A 9/56 year cycle has been established in trends of US and Western European financial crises since 1760 (Funk, 1932; McMinn, 1997). Clearly many major financial crises are precipitated by some mechanism, as they tend to occur preferentially in patterns of the 9/56 year cycle and not as random events. Numerous cosmic factors were examined for some link with the timing of financial crises. Sunspots and traditional astrology were the initial areas favoured for assessment but no significance could be realised.

"I have tried to create a brief classification of people’s predominant modes of activity, according to their solar and lunar element, as the Sun and the Moon are two of the most important single factors in a horoscope. The idea came to be in a flash, and although it certainly has its weaknesses, it seemed original enough for me to write it down and give it some thought. So here it goes: