Dear Ernst, when you used sidereal rasis what was the ayanamsa you used, or found most accurate? Ardra Galactic Plane? Also, did you use equatorial longitude, ecliptic longitude or neither with sidereal rasis?
Do most sidereal astrologers not use those special options for calculating nakshatras?
no one does. I am the first and only person to have programmed any of that or made any mention of it. Most astrologers who read the surya siddhanta dont understand the polar longitude, which is the Dhruva. Even Lahiri when they adopted the chitra ayananmsa under his advice did not realize that the longitudes given for chitra star were in polar longitude, not eclipitic longitude. Later he said, he made a mistake and recalculated it for dhruva position of chitra. That matches the ardra galactic plane.
However, no one other than me ever tried to plot planets in relationship to dhruva nakshatras.
The chinese do plot their nakshatras all equatorially though and its possible that if they did calculate planets still for their astrology they would do it all equatorially.
On another note, you teach that Rasis and Nakshatras are inherently different components of astrology. That they shouldn't be 'mixed' like some astrologers like to combine meanings. If one were using sidereal rasis, why are sidereal rasis and nakshatras inherently different? To me they are different layers of one's nature and are completely different energies altogether. Just want your take.