Ayurvedic Astrology

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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From the last paragraph of Newton’s Principia Mathematica:
” And now we might add something concerning a certain most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies; by the force and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract one another at near distances, and cohere, if contiguous; and electric bodies [...]

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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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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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