Iam from a very orthodox back ground. During SSLC school finish holidays ,I stayed in a village with my chithappa (father's younger brother) & learnt traditional astrology from him. (not computer)
Interpretation takes years of practice. but atleast I can make horoscope based date of birth ,time & place based on
Vakya panchanga (
Srirangam temple issued) or Pambu panchanga.
During college I studied
sun signs & moon signs by Linda Goodman and my favourite hobby was to guess people's Sunsign(month of birth) based on their look,posture,face, feet,eyes, speech, proportion of the limbs to body etc. Studied basic palmistry by Tamilvanan too.
Sunsign+ palmistry knowledge proved useful to hook up with girls later on in life!)
Then I studied "origin of Species". From deep religious slowly became un religious.
Now practice only the karma's /rituals pronounced in rig,yajur,sama & atharvana vedas.(like sandyavandanam,tharpanam. Divasam etc for the departed parents,grand parents ,great grand parents etc. (more due to guilt and a nagging doubt what if they are hanging around in thirusangu sorga waiting for the divasa pindam from their descendents to go the divine feet)
No longer go to temple.
1000 year old temple is a must just to visit the outer prakarams to absorb the ambience. no go to sanctum sanctoram.
(like Madras Mylaopore kapaleeswara temple ,Madras Triplicane Parthasarathy temple, Srirangam Renganathaswamy temple, Madurai Meenakshi temple,Rameswaram temple etc , no recently built colony temples)
Hindu civilazation had great understanding of the cosmos.
In Europe till 1700's catholic church was burning people alive if you say earth is not flat or earth is going around the sun (& not sun is going around earth as was believed by christian church))
Vedic Mathematics still holds good ,
astronomy has changed some what , Sun is travelling in the galaxy at millions of km speed , earth apart from spinning on its own axis , going around sun every 365 days also travelling in the galaxy due to sun's motion. whole galaxy is moving as well.
So
traditional astrology is not relevant as
all stars,planets mentioned in the panchangams,horoscope have moved .
Though I know how indian astrology is computed & interpreted
no longer believe the stuff.