Dirius
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I don't have an issue with that. I was just sharing an observation. It wasn't meant to belittle traditional western astrology.
There are some differences between northern, southern and eastern Indian astrology as well. The most obvious is the difference in chart style.
Generally speaking, different cultures tend to project their different belief systems onto astrology and so there are a lot of different flavors. You seem to prefer the Christian flavor. I'm more interested to get to the core without the different flavors. So I think it's important to distinguish between what's a genuine astrological concept and what's just cultural preference or projection. And the light theory seems to be a Christian projection as Oddity explained.
I didn't take it as such, I merely pointed out that you need to analyse the situation within a certain context. Western astrology was practiced through out a vast range of cultures, while vedic only within a few related ones.
The light theory is older than Christianity, because it was the hellenic astrologers who placed more importance into light base techniques. What Oddity simply stated was a poetic bible verse.