Rahu Kalam the Unlucky segment of the day
Rahu Kalam is an inauspicious segment of every day when no beginnings should take place. Unlike the Horas, which are calculated by dividing the time between sunrise and sunset by 12 for Day Horas, and dividing the time between sunset and sunrise by 12 for Night Horas, the length of Rahu Kalam is always longer than a Hora.
Planetary Horas
The roots of the Horas are to be found in the "Chaldean Order", an order of the planets that the Babylonians adopted from the Chaldeans, a Fertile Crescent culture that was considered "ancient" and venerable by the time of the Babylonian Empire. We have very little direct evidence of the Chaldeans, but their legendary fame as astrologers and scientists survives until today.
Nakshatras the Original Skymap
The genius of Vedic Astrology is that the Zodiac system (which most likely emerged somewhere in the Fertile Crescent before the heyday of the Babylonian Empire) was superimposed on the much older Nakshatra system. In the Vedic Astrological worldview we have the precision of the pattern of 1 in 27 as opposed to the pattern of 1 in 12.
Kaal Sarp Period The Serpent Curse
Even though the majority of people do not have Kaal Sarp curse in their Birth Chart, we all experience these Kaal Sarp periods every now and then in our lives. When the slow moving planets Saturn and Jupiter are on the same side of the Rahu Ketu Axis, there is a good chance for Kaal Sarp to form.
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