(please use jyotish and astrology interchangeably when reading this message!)

For What Little It may be Worth!

It is heartbreaking how the state of astrology has gotten to! More so
in the last few years than ever before.

The glib manner in which individuals who toss poorly researched ideas
and anecdotal comments these days is simply SHAMEFUL!

All these bright little ideas that arise in modern heads fall to
pieces with even a simple database search! And yet, astrologers and
particularly jyotishis had been claiming things definitively on and
on for decades without testing, and without being challenged. It is
shameful and sad.

What is sadder is that some/many of these folks had been claiming and
presenting boldly and definitively 'formulae and adages and rules' as
solid research in a milieu where polite acceptance and not fierce
PEER REVIEW had been the norm!

How curious! And more importantly: WHAT IS REALLY WRONG WITH JYOTISH AND JYOTISHIS [astrology and astrologers]? OF ALL KINDS!!

Rohiniranjan