“Mars Affliction” (Kuja Dosha) is a rather modern trend, not a truly “vedic” or “classical” yoga or astrological combination. To quickly explain what it is: Mars is the planet of independence and the Seventh House is the place of cooperation. The two have obviously opposing themes. Therefore when Mars interacts strongly with the Seventh House [...]
This is an except from Chapter 25 of my book, Unlocking the Meanings of a Horoscope, the textbook for my course of the same name. Everything mentioned in summary below gets a treatment of full explanation in that book and, especially, in the course. Getting the Sculpting Material I started out with the metaphor of [...]
“Dispositor” is really an oddball word, if you ask me. It is not even in the normal modern English dictionary! Look at it carefully and you will find it is made of “dis” and “posit.” You use dis- in plenty of words, like distance, disgrace, disfigure, etc. The prefex dis- indicates negation, absence, & separation. [...]
Imagine a sculptor. He takes his well-maintained tools and sits before a block of fine marble. What do you imagine him doing next? Does he pick one spot on the raw rock and finish it completely before moving on to the next, carving out a flawless, perfectly polished and finished eye while the rest of [...]
Think of the chart as a musical instrument and the planets as musicians. Musicians make music according to their taste, but also according to the instruments they are given to work with. Take a musician and give her a piano; she will make a certain kind of song because the piano has 88 keys, etc. [...]
Fractals are amazing. They are infinitely complex patterns formed by repeating much simpler, smaller patterns over and over again in smaller and smaller contexts. Astrology is a fractal – infinitely complex, but built on relatively simple principles. The complexity of astrology is like the complexity of a fractal – a result of the finer and [...]
The main reason astrology is so confusing is that even the people who explain it are usually pretty darn unclear about what it is. Why? Because Earth is only just now gradually emerging from the Age of Darkness (“Kali-yuga”). The darkness of this age creates great confusion. During this time the tropical zodiac drifted out [...]
Astrologers read horoscopes by judging the results of each “house” in a chart. I will explain how to do it. This is not exactly an “entry level” article, but I will try to write it in such a way that you will come away with important knowledge regardless of your current level of understanding astrology. [...]
This is going to be a quick article about what to look for in your birth chart to be able to focus in on what your natural strengths are. You should have some understanding of Vedic astrological principles to get the most from this article, but even a new comer will come away with a [...]
Here are some probable indications imparted when the lord of the 7th House (marriage) occupies the 5th House (creativity). NOTE: You cannot read a horoscope from one factor alone. The 7th lord being in the 5th house will contribute definite effects, however, to the rest of the indications in the birth chart. a) one wants [...]
