Saturn – None of your business
Saturn is a planet that rules Karma. It forces us to contend with is that suffering exists in the world. This is an uncomfortable situation.
The Meditative Nature of Mercury
When we think of meditation, we always think about the end goal. Sitting down, brain empty. Sometimes, meditative acts are also considered, but even then, people who don’t practice it will say, “this act is so stressful, how can it be meditative”? Mercury is the planet that rules over the nervous system, and creates stress…
The Benefics – Expansion of Energy
Shared joy is a double joy; Shared sorrow is half a sorrow Swedish Proverb Venus and Jupiter are considered benefics, the planets that bring wealth, luck, love, and all sorts of good things into your life. Something interesting about these planets is that despite the idea that astrology is about fulfilment of the self, or…
The Malefics – Expenditure of Energy
The word malefic strikes fear into the hearts of people. As a word, it is not very descriptive or nuanced, all it really means is, “bad” on some level. But, we don’t question the basic premise of the word. Why are the malefics bad? In my opinion, the reason that the malefics are malefics is…
Purushottam – The Sun
पुरुषोत्तम (puruṣottama) – पुरुष (puruṣa) – person, soul, human, man उत्तम (uttama) – highest, pinnacle, topThe pinnacle of a person Purushottam is an epithet often given to the God Vishnu. With this name, Vishnu is understood to be the supreme being, the most excellent of men. Vishnu, especially in his form as Ram, is seen…
The Moon and The Body
The moon is the most tangible version of the self, the one that feels the most real, and the most material. It impacts a native’s everyday life in a way that cannot be denied. It is the self that exists in the moment, the way that your body works, and the way that your mind…
Jupiter – The Shock Absorber for Karma
Yesterday, an aunty of mine who is getting interested in the occult told me that she heard of someone asking a tantric to take their bad karma, and to put it on someone else. Then, she asked me if such a thing was even possible, which led me to this subject. The answer is yes,…
The Navadurgas and The Navagrahas
Sharad Navratri (9 nights of celebration of the goddess) is coming up, and will begin on 15th October sunset, and will on end 24th October sunrise. These days are of special significance to states where Devi worship is common, such as Bengal, and given a lot of importance. All the days have special significance and…
Rahu and Ketu
In my own astrology practice, I consider Rahu (the north node) and Ketu (the south node), the nodes of the moon, to be the most important celestial objects of all, holding the key to understand the traps laid out by life, the lessons the native needs to learn, what the destiny of the native is,…
How to Interpret Charts Part 1: Planets
Vedic astrology takes the approach of humanizing the planets, with the Planets being considered different Gods. For me, seeing the Planets as embodied behaviours that come together to make a person makes it easier to understand how a chart can play out.
