Indian cosmology

The New Moon in Aśvinī is one of the triggers in the month of April that helps us move forward, but that only takes us close to the Saturn-Mars conjunction. However, Aśvinī, associated with the Aśvin twins, will eventually indicate speed, agility, and endurance, but on the flip side, it can also indicate problems in follow-through of what we start or initiate. The New Moon is a good moment for us to plant some seed at an internal level because now is not the time to announce

In a recent social media exchange on Vedic ritual traditions, a critique was raised suggesting that the Vedas were not composed within the Indian subcontinent. One of the key arguments presented in support of this view was that horses were not native to India, and therefore the prominence of the horse in the Rig Veda must point to an external origin of the text. This line of reasoning is in alignment with the older migration-centered models of early Indo-Eurasian history, cal

An independent exploration of Indian cosmology through Vedic and Brahmana texts, examining tithi, lunar time, and forgotten astronomical frameworks.