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Saudi Arabia has always been a very important nation and we cannot forget them while trying to study and analyze geopolitics. While they have always been a major ally of the US as far as we all can remember, things have dramatically changed since the Russia-Ukraine war. Saudi and other OPEC nations openly refused to produce more oil as directed by Biden and have made some interesting inroads in their relationship with China and Russia. As a cherry on the cake, they have decid

Astrologers and my friends, Levi Cosijn and Rok Koritnik, did a video analysis of astrological implications of the train collision in Greece from Vedic and Hellenistic perspectives. It was a very revealing discussion and I was curious to take a look at the sidereal chart and was immediately tempted to present my own thoughts on the astrology of the event. Image Credit: Washington Post Saturn-Mars Conjunction From my perspective, the first step is to take a look at the Saturn-

Over the past two weeks, Vettius Valens was probably the most popular astrologer over 2000 years after his times. While that was regarding the house division debate, this is about another concept that Valens presents called as Spear-bearing (doryphory). In Book I, Valens writes some hints about spear-bearing. …Each star is the ruler of its own “element” in the universe with reference to the stars’ sympathy or antipathy or mutual influence. Their aspects are blended according

In what turns out to be an interesting development, the Egyptian parliament has endorsed the joining of the BRICS group, which helps the member states to look beyond USD for trade. This gives a huge relief for the countries from the pressure of maintaining reserves in USD because the member states of BRICS have been conducting trades in their own currencies as opposed to the usual way of making transactions in USD. Many countries that are strategic to the global economic deve

In this brief post, I have tried to argue against the statement, "WSH were used as a shortcut method". First of all, I am not entering into the debate about which house system is the best and I would never do so. I use the WSH and don’t plan on switching at all. I am totally fine with anyone who uses any form of quadrant house systems. I also know that astrologers over the past 2000 years have used various forms of house systems and all those have coexisted. What really bothe

Levente Lazlo translated a medieval period text which had the nativity of the emperor Constantine VII. This was a very interesting period in history and I was curious to look at the chart. However, when I searched on the internet about Constantine VII, there seemed to be some ambiguity with his birth date. I reached out to Anthony Louis and he directed me to alternate sources and one of them was from the Turkish encyclopedia (Britannica) which is most likely an accurate sourc

"Holding as we do that, while knowledge of any kind is a thing to be honoured and prized, one kind of it may, either by reason of its greater exactness or of a higher dignity and greater wonderfulness in its objects, be more honourable and precious than another, on both accounts we should naturally be led to place in the front rank the study of the soul." Book I, On the Soul, Aristotle As Aristotle points out, the greatest of studies is the study of the soul but to reach ther

I wasn't sure if I should continue writing under the same title “Zodiac & Horoscopy in India" but I decided to use the same title because this is ultimately a sequel to my earlier article where I discussed the possible origins of the knowledge of the zodiac and horoscopy. While there were many scholarly responses related to the current narratives, there was hardly any point mentioned about more authentic research outcomes on the history of Indian civilization probably because

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and hence, there can never be a dogmatic stand as far as history is concerned and it is not very different in astrology. What I am writing is not a dogmatic account of notes but just a presentation of what I think are never considered as records by the western historians probably because of bias. Humans are influenced by their prejudice and bias is not a wrong thing but what if that bias puts off Indian history by thousands of ye

Attacks on traditional astrology, especially essential dignities are boring and not new. Recently an astrologer made a post on Facebook referring to Terry Jones’ nativity and argued that the Sun in detriment did not work as a detriment. This post is basically to point out how the analysis is incomplete to a larger extent and also to show how other factors in the nativity supported the native in his life. Please note that this post is not to condescend any modern form of astro

Italian astrologer and my friend, Tania Daniels is one of the authoritative figures in the astrological community as far the astronomical concepts are concerned and declination is her forte! My endless conversations with her about declination and other astronomical ideas, instilled the inquisitiveness in me to explore astrological techniques with a refined understanding of astronomy. Having said, I am always a work in progress! Declination Declination is the measure of the di

This is a small post on one of the references of the usage of quadrant houses in the history of Indian astrology. Quadrant houses were not widely used in India in history. However I read through a direct reference of the quadrant house system in the Tamil translation of Sarvartha Chintamani by Venkatesa Sarma of the 13th century. In this verse, we can directly find the reference to the quadrant house systems and one small note on how to assess the condition of a planet. கிரகங

Sagittarius rises during the Solar Eclipse in Moscow and this happens to be the 6th house of the JU-SA conjunction chart. This is an indication that Russia might attract and gain more enemies than before. Probably, during this time they might even lose some support across the world they have been having over the past 8 months since the war with Ukraine started. Jupiter Rx is placed in the 4th house and it holds rulership over the nation and its domestic environment. Jupiter R

Europe, due to their inability to solve their own problems, played their part in causing misery to mankind over the past century by being home to two major wars. Today, most of Europe is in chaos because of a variety of problems currently fuelled by the war between Russia and Ukraine. England is no different but they have had their own problems which is now culminating with the premature end of Boris Johnson’s tenure as their prime minister. This was astrologically known and

Levente László from Hungary has been publishing some important translations from the Greek, Byzantine and the Arabic traditions and being a subscriber of his work has certainly been a privilege because of the learning experience I have had over the past 18 months. If you have not been a patron of Mr. László’s work, I’d kindly recommend you to support his work because by doing so, we are not just supporting this particular translation project but we will also be unveiling some

Parāśara, the father of Veda Vyasa, taught the magnum opus Bṛhat Parāśara Horāśāstra to his student Maitreya before the Mahabharata era which means, we are going back at least 5000 years behind from our times. In his work, Parāśara gave many Dasa systems out of which not many are under use in modern times except Vimsottari Dasa which is very widely used because of its efficiency in the practice of predictive astrology. This doesn’t really mean the other systems taught by Parā

A few hours ago, Saturn-Mars square perfected and this is the intense continuation of the cycle that began in early April with the conjunction of Saturn and Mars in late Capricorn. According to Baladi avasthas, the late degrees of an even sign is the infant stage and usually the planets in such avasthas are not considered potent. Having said that, both Saturn and Mars have gained additional fuel at the courtesy of the nodal axis. Mars was in conjunction with Rahu and in oppos

Personal note: With so many changes taking place in my life, presenting the monthly Chakra dasa analysis of the Sun’s ingress turned out to be difficult. However, I thought I should write about the New Moon chart as a substitute. I will get back to normal by mid-July. The New Moon is Jupiter’s bound of Taurus. Jupiter’s bound of Taurus as Valens says: great-hearted, bold, lucky, ruling & beneficent, magnanimous, temperate, living modesty. In a mundane context, we could relate

At the turning of years: A book on Solar Forecasting is a new book out in the community written by astrologer Rok Koritnik from Slovenia. The foreword of the book has been penned by the illustrious Anthony Louis. One can't ask for a better endorsement. As the name suggests, the book is about the practical working of the annual predictive methods focussing primarily on Solar Returns in tandem with Annual Profections. The book is sized at 6*9 which is common for most astrology

Jyotiṣa was never meant for everyone and the ancients followed an oral tradition to a greater extent which meant that the knowledge wasn’t passed to anyone who is unfit to pursue the science. I should clarify here that it doesn’t have anything to do the with caste system or other discriminatory factors. It is just anyone who follows the rules laid out by the ancient Indian rishis and scientists for an astrologer to be able to serve the society in the best possible manner. How