SRI YUKTESVAR Sri Yuktesvar has the unique reputation of not only being an astrologer, but an enlightened soul

as well. He is best known in the west as the Guru of Paramahamsa Yogananda, though in India he was perhaps best known in his days as an astrologer. Sri Yuktesvar discovered several mistakes that the Hindu astronomers and astrologers were making in the 1800s. One of these was the determination of the Yugas, which can be learnt about in Sri Yuktesvars Holy Science. He also discovered the mistakes of the Sankrantis as discussed previously. Unfortunately, astronomical and astrological writings of Sri Yuktesvar have not survived and we are left with only the Holy Science, his Gita Commentary, and some biographies by his disciples. His biographers are not clear in regards to the errors in astrological calculations that he may have discovered, though the Yugas and Sankranti errors are mentioned quite clearly. In his other works, only his Gita commentary gives even a hint of the Zodiac: Because of the special quality of power in the twelve places of the orbit around the Sun, those places and the stars corresponding to it have been designates as the twelve signs of the Zodiac by astrological scholars and they ascribed the qualities of certain early creatures and other things to those signs and called them the sign of the Ram, the sign of the Bull, etc. In that cycle of the Zodiac, the Moon, beginning on the first day of the bright fortnight, travels through six signs of the Zodiac until the full Moon, when the moon is at its furthest point away from the Sun. And again, beginning on the first day of the dark fortnight, it goes through the other six signs until the new Moon, when the Moon is at its closets point near the Sun. This moving away to the furthest point and moving back to the closest point to the Sun, having gone through all 12 signs of the Zodiac is called on lunar month. In this way, the movement of twelve signs of the Zodiac with the Sun, beginning with one and ending back at the same one, constitutes one solar year. Sri Yuktesvar states that there are twelve places of power of the orbit around the Sun. The Tropical Zodiac is based upon the