Comments about my Book, “The Ascendant- 108 Planets of Vedic Astrology”

“Sam Geppis new text, The Ascendant brilliantly explores each of the twelve Vedic lagnas in great depth. This is an excellent book for both beginning and intermediate level students. The Ascendant provides needed research and access to one of the most important and fundamental keys in Vedic natal chart analysis.”
Dennis M. Harness, Ph.D.
President, American College of Vedic Astrology
Author of The Nakshatras: The Lunar Mansions of Vedic Astrology

“While many authors have attempted to explain the basic rules of a planets behavior as a house lord, Sadasiva is the first to produce a book explaining the very specific, and often times surprising, detailed rules given by Brihat Parashara Hora Sastra for each planet in each ascendant, revealing how all the planets combine to create the nature, character, growth and evolution of the ascending sign.”
Ernst Wilhelm
Founder, Jyotish Academy International
Author of Core Yogas and Classical Muhurta

AMAZON.Com Reviews (4 out of 17)

  By A. Kelley (SF BAY) 
This book does an excellent job explaining sometimes hard to understand vedic concepts. He talks about the elements, the gunas and the chakras and how they are tied to our birth chart - what it all means! Sadasiva definitely has a clear understanding of these primal transcendant energies and that really comes through in this book.

The second half of the book is all about the way the planets act through different signs and this really helped me get a clear idea of how a planet like Jupiter or Venus does not behave the same way for every sign.

It is a good book to pick up off the shelf and start learning right away and also serves as a good reference book for years to come. There are some advanced concepts that he presents for the more experienced, but mostly it is an easily accessible tool that everyone will be able to spiritually profit from immediately.

  By E. Sloan (Wishon,Ca)
I'm a new student of Jyotish and this book has really helped me understand the unique qualities, strengths/weaknesses and planetary relationships of the different ascendants. We bought Svoboda's 'Light on Life' first which is thorough but overwelming. Next we got Bloomfied's Intro to Vedic Astrology which is great for showing the dynamic nature of charts and for getting comfortable with where everything is in any specific chart; however, because each ascendant introduces different relationships between the planets/houses the results predicted by Bloomfield's simplified analysis do not always pan out. The Ascendant fills the gap between these two books perfectly. My only criticism of the book is that it lacks illustrations or sample charts(I don't think there's a chart in the entire book!) that could show the differences that make each ascendant unique.
 
  Catherine T. Axen (santa fe, nm)
When one wants to learn the ins and outs of Vedic Astrology there are many books out there and it can be overwhelming. Where do I start?? "The Ascendant" is not only a great place to start, it can help piece together the great web of Vedic information so that you will be able to read a chart without looking up what a particular planet represents in a certain house(one example). This is a very comprehensive guide to not only the ascendants but also the planets, elements, gunas, and even the nodes. This book is a keeper!
 
  Lhynn Nevarez "Lhynn Nevarez" (Lincoln, Ca.) 
This was a very easy to understand book. It gives you all you want to know about doing a chart for yourself and understanding the basics of it!
Most other books are thorough but a difficult read and your left without any comprehension of the basics.
Sam Geppi has done a brillant job!
I would highly reccomend this book to all Vedic Astrology students and also to those who want to learn.