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

The first new Moon in Pisces after the spring equinox marks the beginning of the new year in vedic calendar. However, the Vedic month begins with the Sun’s ingress into every sign and the cycle begins from the Sun’s ingress into Aries. Indian astrologers and cultural traditions follow the Aries ingress as the beginning of the New year and it differs from region to region. In this essay, I will discuss the New year chart, Ingress chart and preceeded by an overview of the Jupit

A respected Polish astrologer Marcin Bylica of the Hungarian court elected a chart for the coronation of the young Matthias Corvinus in 1464. Matthias was made King basically to avoid any civil war in Europe at that point in time because he became the king in the year 1458 by when he was only 15 years old. However, the coronation did not take place until the year 1464. Astrologer Bylica was a celebrated astrologer of Corvinus’ court and apparently, the Kingdom looked up to hi

As a fortunate subscriber of Levente Laszlo’s translation of ancient and medieval astrological texts, I had an opportunity to study his translation of the works of astrologer and physician Antigonus of Nicaea which was probably done after the year 138 CE according to Laslo. It appears like most of these works are lost but apparently, Rhetorius of Egypt refers to the works of Antigonus of Nicaea in his works and hence, we have a few charts that survive which are part of Laslo’

According to the Chakra Dasa for Jupiter-Saturn conjunction chart, April 2022 begins with the Capricorn-Libra period and ends with the Aquarius-Gemini period in March 2023. Capricorn is the 12th house and Aquarius is the first house. The entire year is going to be ruled by Saturn and Saturn is placed in the 12th house of wars, loss, uncertainty, hospitalization, secret enemies, spying by enemies, etc. In the book “Time tested techniques of Mundane Astrology” edited by K.N.Rao

Impact of a single nativity on an entire country Dr. Benjamin Dykes in one of his interviews about Mundane Astrology spoke a little bit about how one person's nativity can majorly impact the entire nation. More than any prediction or forecast, I just tried to look at multiple astrological layers of this issue. With Zelensky's chart, I used Total Eclipse of December 2021, Jupiter-Saturn conjunction of December 2020 and the upcoming Saturn-Mars conjunction chart. The Crazy Quad

At one point, I was wondering if I should analyze Yogi Adityanath’s chart but then I realized that we don’t have birth data with accuracy. There are some charts floating around the internet but I don’t usually do my analysis based on such speculative information. Moreover, astrology is usually needed for people when they are facing challenging times or during the times when practicality cannot answer certain questions. It is a known fact that Yogi Adityanath would reclaim the

In Chapter 14 of Astrological Works of Theophilus of Edessa translated by Ben Dykes, you will see the below passage: On the subject of when there will be war, Theophilus says that if the luminaries make a triangle (trine) with each other and look upon the Hour-Marker, the war will be made to cease easily; but if a tetragon (square), (the war) will not be over easily, but the one making war will move from battle to battle, and from place to place. If the luminaries are diametr

With the series of misfortunes that are taking place in Ukraine, it is important to analyze how Russia will fare in the year 2022-23. Given the fact that Russia was the aggressor, I wanted to check if this or any other situation in the future will pose more threat. I have dealt with the economic situation that the charts show and also the future of this stand-off with Ukraine. In the short conclusion of the article, I have written about the prospect of war in years to come. R

After a traumatic 5 days of war In Ukraine and endless unrest to the poor Ukrainian civilians, the United Nations General Assembly meeting is to be held at the Belarus-Ukraine border. WION has announced that the time of meeting would be 10.00 AM local time (Ukraine). I cast a chart to see that Taurus is rising with Venus in the 9H of Capricorn. The most striking feature of this chart is the cluster of planets in the 9H. 1H is Ukraine since this is happening in Ukraine, 7H is

There is not a great deal of change except for a few subtle changes in AC bounds and the MC bounds of the JU-SA conjunction charts of Moscow and New Delhi. Biden has been pestering India to take a stand in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. India has tried to remain neutral because of their relations with both Ukraine and Russia. However, the US has been putting themselves on the forefront and pushing India to take a stand and is hoping to have India on their side. Biden knows that

In what is a dreadful and an unfortunate development, Putin declared war on Ukraine and the military operations have already begun. In my earlier blog post, I'd mentioned that the final Kalasarpa of the Taurus-Scorpio axis is extremely difficult, the Moon's ill placement has turned out to be deadly. This will be another small post with astrological factors that are explicit. There are many things that we need to focus upon anyway. At 5.55, when Putin officially confirmed wa

On February 23, 2022, the Moon will enter into a conjunction with Ketu and will join the Nodal axis. This is the last conjunction for the Moon with Ketu in Scorpio for the next 19 years. I specifically cast the conjunction chart for this reason and moreover, it marks a very crucial Kalasarpa. Like the Moon-Ketu conjunction, this is also the last Kalasarpa of the Taurus-Scorpio. Unfortunately the chart is again worrying. Rahu is in the 1st house of Taurus with the ruler of the

With the Pluto return on 22 February 2022, the social media is filled with astrologers talking about the Pluto return of the US which is happening for the first time since 1776, i.e. the formation of the United States of America. In my opinion, it is difficult to decipher a 248 year cycle based on one transit or other transit based aspects. We could cast a Pluto return chart but again it appears like a long shot because we have to use the same chart for the next 248 years and

Image Source: Business Insider After publishing the article "The Russia-Ukraine Conflict" I had a thought of checking the previous JU-SA conjunction in Capricorn. As I was looking at the chart, astrologer and my friend, Tania Daniels with whom I have been in conversation regarding this entire issue, gave me the details of US-Cuban crisis of 1962 (preceeded by a Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in Capricorn) during when another world war almost broke out but was dealt with diplomacy

The world is closely following the conflict between Russia and Ukraine which involves some of the other nations like the USA, Germany, Poland, France, Belarus, UK that are trying to deal with this really tense situation. I have used Chakra Dasa periods for the JU-SA conjunction charts cast to different locations to understand the situation astrologically. I am skeptical about using natal charts for countries and hence, I thought using a chart with an astrological significance

I have been closely following the Russia-Ukraine conflict and I have applied the Chakra Dasa in timing the events. For this, I have used Jupiter-Saturn (JU-SA) conjunction charts and I have applied time lords (Chakra Dasa) to analyze the nature and outcome from the chart. I will publish another blog post talking about the JU-SA conjunction chart set for Moscow. Possibly, I will also make a YouTube video talking about the astrological matters. In this quick small post (where I

After being reasonably convinced with the results of using Chakra Dasa as a potential Mundane technique, I decided to take this further in terms of using Chakra Dasa to predict day to day Mundane matters rather than just doing a generic horoscope blog or vlog. The reason why using a Dasa system is always good is because we have an underlying chart based on which the Dasa periods are calculated. Things are more specific while during a chart and time-lord system (Chakra Dasa in

I have always been skeptical about using natal charts to study the astrology of the nation because historically, a country would have gone through various significant socio-political events and it is always difficult to conclude on which one is the correct chart to use for astrological purposes and hence, I always prefer ingress charts or conjunction charts cast for the specific location. The reason I am using the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction chart is because they always bring

In my series of writing about predicting with Firdãriã, I am continuing with another event which is Ritchie Valens’ death when he was just 17 years old on 03rd February 1959. Before jumping into the Fardãrs of Ritchie Valens, we need to see whether the native has a shortened life span. A few important things we need to consider are: 1st house Condition of the Lord of the Ascendant 8th house Condition of the Lord of the 8th house Saturn and its condition in the nativity The Mo