Question: My relative, with debilitated Mercury, has communication problems and suffered an injury to his nerves. Over time the communication problem has improved, but the injury has not. Why? Answer: Your question seems to be, “Why has one thing related to Mercury improved, while another thing related to Mercury has not? Shouldn’t everything related to [...]
What are the Planets, and Why? Planets are the active principles of astrology. Knowledge of what the planets represent is fundamental clearly understanding every other component of astrology – so learn carefully and well! If you look up at the sky, it’s clear to see that the planets are “the active principles.” Go ahead and [...]
People go off their rockers about “mercury retrograde.” Its a regular occurrence, folks. It happens a few times every year. And each time it lasts for quite a while, about a month more or less. That’s a frequent, long time. During this time if you have any problem figuring things out or communicating you go, [...]
Today Jupiter enters Aries (the constellation, not the monthly “sign”) – along with a bunch of other planets: Venus & Mercury, Mars, and for a few more days, the Sun. Let’s forget about all the others, because it’s just too complicated. Let’s think about Jupiter in Aries. The first question always is “What does it [...]
There are several medieval and ancient Sanskrit astrology textbooks that have a great wealth of knowledge – but are completely misunderstood by readers without the cultural background required to correctly approach them. This handicap is not the special curse of non-Indian’s by any means! All humans since the dark ages have lost the intellectual culture [...]
Right? In case you haven’t noticed, most of the astrologers in the west are musicians or at least have some other sort of artistic background. By most I mean more than half. Here is why, in a stream of consciousness explanation… There are two planets that contribute significantly to astrology. The first, well known, [...]
A respectable Vedic Astrologer contacted me to disagree with my presentation of Mercury as an extremely beautiful planet. She said that it may be my opinion or my preference, but it is not classical Vedic Astrology. Here is my reply showing doubtlessly that classical Vedic Astrology strongly and surely connects Mercury to beauty. Brhat Parashara [...]
Question What in astrology tells what someone would be like as a parent? The fifth house? Answer I disagree that the 5th house tells how you will parent. I think this is a misunderstanding of what the 5th house is. However the 5th house DOES tell what your children will be like, from your [...]
Question So now…when a planet is in aspect to a malefic planet, does that mean the aspect is always bad? ex mercury sag sextile mars libra. is that good or bad? or merc conjunct uranus Answer “When a planet is in aspect to a malefic” – from your examples (mercury sextile mars) it seems [...]
He began by telling the names of the 9 planets: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu. Of course these are translations of the names he gave. Since names are names after all, translations are not always terribly appropriate. So let’s look at the Sanskrit names the master actual gave for the [...]
