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The chart for the start of 2022 serves to remind us of the fundamental principle for leveraging our individual and collective energies. We must accept 100% responsibility for everything that happens on our lives. Every event is the product of karma accumulated by us over millennia. No one does anything to us that we didn’tContinue reading “Arta Houses — Resources for the New Year”

Dharma Houses Houses 1, 5, 9 in the chart are the Dharma houses. Dharma is the universal law, the evolutionary order of consciousness and life, the journey from energy to matter cycling toward release from any attachment to either. Dharma is the Divine thought outside space-time that made the sound of the sacred aum andContinue reading “Dharma Houses — for Body, Mind, and Spiritual Growth”

Every birth chart has 12 houses containing all the activities of life. In the Vedas, life is seen as having four aims or aspirations repeating in cyclical motion until the Atman, the energy that incarnated into the body, becomes self-aware of its totality as part of universal consciousness. The four aims of life are DharmaContinue reading “House, Sign, Element and the Four Aims of Life”

Erzincan, learning from karmic pain Most of us see astrology as a practice for relationships between the zodiac and personal events. Vedic astrology also uses the charts of events to study and understand planetary karmas related to locations and institutions at particular points in time. The chart above reflects the beginning of a series ofContinue reading “Erzincan, Turkey Earthquakes”

Double Sun Day Venus and Moon in Sun-ruled Nakshatras. I woke to drizzle today, but it’s now 9 AM and bright sunlight has begun to penetrate the thinning cloud cover. (No, this isn’t the opening to some MFA-inspired fiction piece. It just happens to begin with weather). It’s Sunday, the day the Vedas invoke SuryaContinue reading “Surya — the Sun Today”

Retrograde Venus Until January 29, 2022 When a planet is retrograde it means its apparent motion as seen from earth is backwards. This is caused by the varying speeds and size of planetary orbits. The retrograde planet only orbits in one direction but as it overtakes or is overtaken in relation to another planet itContinue reading “Retrograde Transits of Venus”

The Future With COVID The particular congress of planetary actions that arrived with the first wave of the COVID pandemic in January 2020 had no equal in recent history in its power to effect change. In fact, careful review by many of the most ethical and experienced astrologers pointed to the 14th century outbreak ofContinue reading “The Future With COVID”

Moon in Ashlesha — the Clinging Star Ruled by Mercury and comprising the last 13 degrees 20 minutes of Cancer, Ashlesha’s symbol of a coiled snake and its mystical intellect make it both mysterious and often feared. Its shakti is the power to poison the enemy, but like most serpents, only attacks when provoked. MotivatedContinue reading “Ashlesha — the Coiled Serpent”

Punarvasu and Pushya — Star of Renewal and Star of Nourishment We begin the day with the waning gibbous moon in Punarvasu. Symbolized by two chariots, this Nakshatra has the power to achieve objectives or obtain wealth and substance. Bridging the air sign Gemini and water sign Cancer, it brings the two most important life-givingContinue reading “Renewal and Nourishment from Punarvasu and Pushya”

Betelgeuse, Sirius, Ardra Today we find the Moon in Ardra Nakshatra, in the constellation Gemini and including the giant star Betelgeuse in Orion as well as Sirius in Canis Major. Ruled by Rahu and in Mercury-ruled Gemini, Ardra combines strong feelings of desire for experience with deep intelligence operating at hyper speed. The Vedas sayContinue reading “Moon in Ardra, Star of Sorrow”