seriously vedic astrology is very vast. one cannot comprehend it fully even after years of study.
but i will tell you about it things needed in our day to day living which helps us live better. we dont need to understand vedic astrology fully. but few things are very important.
you should be able to read and interpret your own chart . that the first and the most important thing.
to interpret your own chart you need to know following things.
1. There are 12 signs , 12 houses and 9 planets in vedic astrology. You must know what a planet is, what signs are, what houses are for that visit--http://www.astrologyzine.com/teach-a2.shtml
2. must know what ascendent is. visit --http://www.astrologycom.com/asc.html
3. planets in signs . eg. how is mars in scorpio . how is sun in gemini. planet/sign relationshiphttp://vedic.indastro.com/learn-astrology/sign-index.php
4. planets in houses. eg. sun in 4th house. saturn in 11th house.
