Ayurvedic Astrology

I know some people who, in first getting a reading, want to tell the astrologer as little as possible. The idea here is that they do not want to give any clues away, lest the reader surmise though clues what the readee’s situation is.
Fair enough.  Some charlatans do just that, but I want to give [...]

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I love seeing people doing their Dharma.
I’ve pretty often given specific unusual predictions (e.g. you will be forming a healing clinic in your mother’s home), only to find that the person is doing exactly that.
I love to see that!  It’s not really for ego’s sake. (Although I try not to have ego in predictions, there’s [...]

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This is a HUGE topic, but perhaps I can start off, as I typically do, with an analogy.
Astrology is like cat sitting.
Someone is giving the keys to their house to you whenever they give you their birth information.  Everything that is important to them is going to be accessible by another human being.
I don’t blame [...]

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Something to consider…[which "means 'something to add the stars' as con-sidere in latin means con sidereal"  - Das]
I had another guy’s guy ask me tonight how do I do this astrology? He says it’s very helpful, but how on earth does it work?
I realized on my walk tonight that there’s a very guy’s guy kind [...]

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Above is the iconic image of Jyotish, the kuNDali or astrology chart.
It’s beauty is clear and when the planets are placed on it, it is believed to contain the cosmos.
The diamond labelled 1 is what faces the Eastern horizon on the Earth’s surface at the point and time of the chart. Diamond 7 is [...]

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We learned in a recent course on Ayurvedic fertility and conception that the woman’s uterus has a “flowering period” 9 days after ovulation, appropriately named pushpa (Sanskrit for flower) when conception is most likely.
I think it’s interesting and telling that, if all the village women ovulate on the same day, say on the full moon, [...]

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I get this question pretty often.
Someone had in her partnership chart (navamsha) the symbols for a heart attack, but her partner didn’t have them in his direct rasi chart. Her partner had a heart attack when the combination in her chart was activated.
Was it her fault?
I remember when the Great Maharishi Mahesh Yogi passed [...]

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I was once told by Hart that there is no publicly known reasoning behind the order of the planets in the widely used and accurate Vimshottari dasha system.
That order is
Sun/Moon/Mars/Rahu/Jupiter/Saturn/Mercury/Ketu/Venus.
But why?
Well, I foolhardily have attempted to figure it out.
Here it is. Even if it isn’t true, it’s a good mnemonic.
1. Sun and Moon [...]

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When I first entered Ayurvedic school, I was so careful with my body, with my diet, with my (physical) yoga.
I was hypersensitive to everything and didn’t really know what was happening to me when I felt this or that. Yet I knew the basic niyamas of the Yoga Sutras, I knew that I was [...]

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AN OLD ARTICLE OF MINE THAT SEEMS WORTH RESUSCITATING
FROM 6/29/2002
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Following just the introductory teachings, there was but one thing that didn’t immediately rest with me structurally: the notion of changing by moment the lagna (ascendent), to adjust for various omens, so that for example, if the native is touching his feet, we would use Pisces [...]

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“No man was ever wise by chance.”  – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
This is a subject that will come up both sooner AND later, so we may as well talk about it now.
Where is free will in the Jyotish chart?
A Buddhist monk once said in a lecture that we have about 4% leeway in our actions. [...]

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There’s an old Indian story that goes something like this:
A man in a parched dry part of the country was trying to create a well. He would dig a hole, not deep enough to find anything, get exasperated and then give up. He tried this over and over again, and then went [...]

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Jyotish represents the eye, one of the Vedangas, of the Vedas.
What does this mean?
I think there is a lot to think about here.
For one, tamas, the guna to avoid, translates first to “darkness”, not beeing able to see, that is, the absence of light.  Jyotish is light, is seeing.
The eye is a lens, used to [...]

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