Predictive accuracy of astrologers

Most Vedic Astrologers claim Vedic Astrology to be 90%
accurate. Yet only half of these astrologers predicted the last
presidential election correctly. Is it the fault of the Astrology or the
Astrologer? To its credit, Vedic Astrology makes use of Nakshatra
Dasas, which allow the astrologer to see what planet is most
significantly influencing the life at any given time. Simply knowing
this helps an astrologer tremendously. For instance, staying up late
in a motel room with an Indian astrologer with both of us laying in
our individual beds and staring at the ceiling the conversation
naturally turned to astrology. He asked me what Dasa I was in, to
which I replied that I had just started the Moon Dasa. Before Moon
Dasa is Sun/Venus Dasa, so he replied, “so in Sun/Venus you
broke up with a woman?” To which I had, unfortunately, to answer
yes. He made this prediction without seeing my horoscope, just
knowing the Dasa. So many predictions can be made simply by the
fact of knowing the Nakshatra Dasa, which are calculated sidereally
from the Nakshatra of the Moon. There are also, many, many other
techniques in vogue in India that are dependent only upon
Nakshatras which provide accurate readings with out even
examining a horoscope of Rasis.

I have not seen Vedic Astrologers rely on the qualities of the Rasis to color their predictions. Is it because they are not concerned
with the details that the Rasis offer, or is it due to their Sidereal
Rasis not working well for this? In any case, while some accuracy
can be claimed by Vedic Astrology as it is currently practiced, it can
not claim 90% accuracy in its current form. Is it a problem of
Zodiacs, or of something else?


These days, most Western Astrologers refrain from prediction
and concentrate on character instead. Not long ago, however,
Western Astrologers concentrated on predictions, just as do the
Vedic Astrologers and there are records of many fantastic
predictions made by Western Astrologers. I have also seen
predictive centered modern Western Astrologers make wonderful
predictions and I have also seen them color the predictions with the
qualities of the Rasis. But I have also seen them fail miserbly just as
many times. When they fail, do they fail because their Zodiac is
incorrect? Or do they fail because the do not use Varga charts and
Nakshatras?


The point is that Astrologers fail more often then they would
like to admit. If we consider this in the light of the possibility that
Vedic, Persian, Greek, and any astrology that uses twelve signs of
the Zodiac to be the same system that is fragmented with different
cultures having maintained different parts of a larger original
system, then the failings of astrologers are explained. Just as an auto
mechanic can not be expeted to repair any and all problems a
vehicle may have with an incomplete toolbox, astrologers will miss
and make mistakes so long as they are working with only the
incomplete Western, Greek, Persian or Vedic Toolbox, when what
they need is the complete Astrologer’s Toolbox. If such a toolbox
exists, which it would seem it does due to the similarities of the
different cultural systems of astrology, then we can only bring it
together once the correct Zodiac, whether Tropical or Sidereal, is
proven. So any astrologer with the desire to work towards the
perfection of astrology, should have an interest in discovering the correct Zodiac.