Category: <span>Almanac</span>

Almanac · 5 minWhat is Vedic astrology, and how is it different from your horoscope app?Jyotish reads the sky at the minute you were born, from your rising sign, on the stars themselves. Here is what that changes.Read Almanac · 5 minIs astrology fortune telling? An honest answerFortune telling announces a future. Jyotish calculates a chart and reads it by fixed rules. The difference is the method, and you can check it.Read Almanac · 5 minWhat a planetary transit is, and how to use oneThe planets keep moving after you are born. A transit is where one is now, read against your chart, and it tells you when to move and when to hold.Read Almanac · 5 minWhat your rising sign is, and why Jyotish reads from itThe sign that was rising in the east at the minute you were born. Jyotish builds your whole chart from it.Read Almanac · 5 minThe twelve houses: where each part of your life sits in your chartTwelve areas of life, counted from your rising sign. What each one governs, and why three of them ask for particular care.Read Almanac · 4 minThe nine planets of Jyotish, and what each one governsSeven visible lights and two invisible points. What each planet rules in a life, and how long its season lasts.Read Almanac · 5 minWhy some planets carry you and others ask more of youThe same planet can work for one chart and against another. In the Systems' Approach, your rising sign decides which.Read Almanac · 5 minWhat it means when a planet appears to move backwardNothing in space turns around. Here is what the backward stretch is, how long each planet's lasts, and how Jyotish interprets it.Read Almanac · 4 minThe 27 nakshatras: the Moon’s mansions, and the one you were born inTwenty-seven divisions of the sky, each with a planetary lord, and why the one holding your Moon at birth times your life.Read Almanac · 4 minWhy the wrong gemstone can work against youA gemstone strengthens the planet it belongs to, every hour you wear it. That is why the match matters far more than the stone.Read