One of the many New Year charts used in Vedic astrology is created at the New Moon in Pisces which will fall on April 7, 2016 throughout the world. Astrologer Steve Stuckey explains the reasoning behind New Moon in Pisces in a 2010 Jyotish Star article: “The question naturally arises, why the New Moon in Pisces? Unfortunately there doesn’t appear to be an answer forthcoming from Jyotish classical texts on this subject. However there is a reference in the Brahma Purana and the Chaturvarga Chintamani of Hemadri (approx 1300 CE), wherein it is stated that Lord Brahma created the universe on the Chaitra Shukla Pratipada or the first day of the first month of the year.” So simply, every year we celebrate the beginning of the New Year at the same astrological point when Lord Brahma created the universe!
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