Language: EnglishPages: 407About the AuthorI have grown up in India and am an alumni of India Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA; and Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA. I am an engineer by profession and have worked in the Telecom industry for about 20 years with several multinational organizations, both in India and the USA.I took up astrology as a pastime around ten years back. I started by reading books on Vedic Astrology. Having an analytical bent of mind lead me to question Astrology and its principles at every level. This journey for me has been about finding answers to some of the key issues facing astrology.Does Astrology really work? Can we prove it? What can it truly deliver?At some point, as part of this quest, I got into reading books on Western Astrology. For me, this was a turning point in more ways than one. It not only presented a whole new dimension on how this subject is viewed by the West but what I found really intriguing was the strong synergy that existed between the Vedic and Western principles.My fascination for research and curiosity to ”know the unknown” has taken the form of this book. It is my sincere attempt to integrate the learning’s of East and West using an analytical and innovative approach to astrology. It dissects the hundreds of complex rules available in Vedic and Western texts to a few simplistic principles explained through numerous case studies.I am also greatly drawn towards its application in the field of Medical astrology. My research on this subject is underway and I do wish to present this a s a second book at some point of time. Author’s PrefaceAstro - from Amzon