An Obscure Sutra

One of the joys of reading the Masters is tripping over some of the statements they make and then checking them out so see if what they wrote is true in real life. What follows is an example. I apologize ahead of time to those readers who do not understand all the...

The Purpose of a Chart

“On him does death lie heavily who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.” -Seneca The purpose of a chart reading is not to confirm a special status or to find out whether specific desires will be met. Rather, it is to enable an individual to get to know...

Similarities Abound

The ancient Vedic culture acknowledged gender equality and interdependency. Roughly five thousand years ago when darkness descended, bringing in the age of Kali, that attitude changed. Patriarchy[i], a social system giving supremacy to the male gender, gained...

Expanded Study

In 1933, Manly P. Hall, a name well known to Western astrologers, wrote a short introduction to all branches of the subject. His purpose in writing ‘The Story of Astrology’ was to achieve two goals. -to supply students of astrology with some tangible data concerning...

The New Comers

The planets Uranus, Saturn and Pluto definitely exist and there is no question about their influence on a tropical chart. So, why aren’t these planets used in Jyotish? In order to answer this question a little background information must be provided. A tropical chart...

It’s Official –

Summer is here and is a perfect opportunity to acknowledge duality and the difference between what appears to be and what actually is. Our language suggests it is the sun moving across the sky when in reality it is the earth moving around the sun which causes this...