The Jesuits in India and turning the Astrology from Topical to Sideral
@Santos Bonacci I am trying to find documented evidence for this, but so far this is what I have come up with Tropical vs. Sidereal Zodiac — What Actually Happened - The split between the two zodiacs is a purely **astronomical** effect of Earth's axial precession (~1° every 72 years). The two systems coincided around the early 3rd century CE and have since drifted ~23–24° apart. - Western astrology adopted the tropical zodiac via Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos (2nd c. CE) and used it predominantly by the 8th–9th century CE. Indian (Vedic/Jyotish) astrology kept the sidereal zodiac because of its indigenous Nakshatra (fixed-star) system — "it never had a Ptolemy." This divergence was settled centuries before the Jesuits even existed (the order was founded in 1540). - The claim that Jesuits went into India and switched the zodiac to stop people linking temple science to astrology has zero documentary support. Roberto de Nobili (the canonical Jesuit in South India, Madurai mission 1606–1656) is documented as a Sanskrit/Tamil scholar — with no connection to astronomy, astrology, the zodiac, or calendar reform. - The 1582 Gregorian calendar reform (Pope Gregory XIII) was an ecclesiastical fix for the date of Easter — restoring the equinox to ~March 21 as at the Council of Nicaea (325 CE). It was not a redefinition of the zodiac, though esoteric teachers often present it as one. Does anyone have points to counter the above information? Thank you for your Time