Western and Vedic Astrology
Perhaps the single most challenging difference to deal with when seeking to reconcile Western and Vedic astrology is the Zodiac Question: Tropical or Sidereal? If this issue was not in …
Read MoreWhat are the houses of an astrological birth-chart?
In very simple terms, the houses of the horoscope divide the space around the earth into twelve slices, so to speak, each of …
Read More“God geometrises“
– Alice Bailey
So, you like astrology and you know a few odd bits about it, but you haven’t gotten hands on with it yet. You’re aware that astrologers study …
Read MoreOne of the most intriguing and valuable features of Jyotish is it’s vast canon of ‘Yogas’ and associated aphorisms. The word ‘yoga’ essentially means to ‘join’ or ‘unite’, and here …
Read More“This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.”
— Euripides
Vedic astrology singles out transiting Saturn’s Conjunction to the natal Moon as a particularly ominous event that brings …
Read MoreThere is an important principle in horoscopic astrology which states that planets are Exalted or in their Fall in certain specific signs of the zodiac. The premise is, on the …
Read MoreJyotish, or Vedic Astrology, divides the twelve houses (or ‘bhavas‘) of the horoscope into four groups, each associated with one of the ‘puruṣārthas‘, or the Four Aims of Life.
Dharma (righteousness, …
Read MoreA depiction of the moment of death by Alex Gray
“To every thing there is a season,and a time to every purpose under the heaven:A time to be born, a time …
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