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Ayanāṃśa

The ayanāṃśa is the angular difference between the tropical zodiac and the sidereal zodiac.

What the word means

Ayana, movement or course, and aṃśa, portion.

How it is calculated

Subtract the ayanāṃśa from tropical longitudes. Vedaz uses Lahiri, also called Citrapakṣa, which places the star Citrā (Spica) at the middle of the zodiac.

History

Lahiri was adopted for India's national calendar after the Calendar Reform Committee of the 1950s. Other values exist, and practitioners still debate them.

Energy

A correction, not a quality.

Physical description

The slow drift of the equinox point against the stars, about one degree every 72 years.

Interpretation

It decides which sign and nakṣatra each graha falls in, so it shapes everything downstream.

Vedaz's interpretation

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