“Mutual Exchange” is a very powerful, influential and important astrological condition which deserves to be discussed with clarity. In Sanskrit, the language of “Vedic” astrology, this condition is called parivartana. The word literally means “circular motion” and is used to indicate situations in which things revolve around one another, come and go and thus exchange [...]
1: Physical self and tangible life. Birth, appearance qualities, and the practical effects thereof. 2: Things that support the self: wealth, nutrition, and family networks. 3: The inner being becoming tangible and affecting oneself: desire, enthusiasm, willpower, writing and dexterity. 4: The inner, private self. Emotional happiness, domestic comforts and fortunes. 5: The inner self [...]
A mystical talisman – a source of divine, spiritual and occult protection – symbolizes this lunar mansion. The word itself, jyeshtha, means “the elder” – signifying a wizened person whose arcane, shamanic, and supernatural guidance protects the masses. Indra, the king of heaven, is the god of this mansion – illustrating that invincibility, authority, and [...]
April 28/29 – Mercury & Sun conjunction Retrograde mercury will move into exact alignment with the Sun. Children born near this time have heightened potential for self-understanding, but will have challenges speaking in public without becoming nervous or feeling unqualified. Benefits will be highest when Sagittarius and Taurus are rising. May 2/3 – Jupiter enters [...]
Here is a more concise description of the lunar mansion called Rohini, which is the red star Aldebaran and covers 6 1/3º – 20º of sidereal Taurus. This mansion has two symbols. The first is an ox-drawn cart carrying an abundance of delicious and nutritious foods from the fields. The second is a banyan tree [...]
The moon covers 27 areas of the sky in the course of a month. The sun covers 12 areas of the sky in the course of a year. Therefore there are 12 zodiac signs and 27 lunar mansions. The zodiac signs of the sun are UNITED with the mansions of the moon by the number [...]
“The Fourth House” vaahanaanyatha bandhoosh cha maatRi-saukhyaadikaany-api nidhi kShetraM gRihaM chaapi chaturthat parichintayet vaahana – vehicles; anyatha – in another way; bandhoosh – relatives, friends, connections, ties, relations; cha – and; maatRi – mothers; saukhya-adikaani – welfare, comfort, health, happiness, felicity, enjoyment; api – even; nidhi – treasure, devote, entrust, commit, deposit, preserve, burry; kShetraM [...]
A child does some things right and some things he does wrong, correct? The parent must correct the wrong things and encourage the right things. We are the children, the universe is our mother. She is in charge of seeing that we “grow up” correctly. What does it mean for a living entity, a child [...]
Here is where east meets west. Actually if you have your wits about you, you’ll know that its not about “east meeting west” but about seeing the link between what is modern and what is ancient. In ancient astrology, which for the most part is what Vedic astrology is, every planet aspected the sign opposite [...]
aayoo raNaM ripuM caapi durgaM mRita-dhanaM tathaa gatyanukaadikaM sarvaM pashyed-randhraa vicakShaNaH aayoo – life force, longevity; raNaM – gratifications, pleasures (as in the spoils enjoyed after a battle); ripuM – deceitful, cheats, mysterious, treacherous; ca-api – and even; durgaM – in inaccessible; mRita-dhanaM – “dead wealth”; tathaa – thus; gati-anuka-adikaM – ability to connect the [...]
