Roots
The roots of Vedic astrology
An evidence-based history of the actual Sanskrit manuscripts: which texts are old, and how far each can be trusted.
ArticleOpen →Knowing your soul’s purpose, prose, and pros is the wisest cheat code to live a happy human life.
Astrology is the oldest and the most profound effort to figure out this cheat code. 3000 years old. Still out of reach for most of us. Still surprisingly accurate for most of us.
It is a sacred discipline. For spiritual alignment. It has neither rules nor room for a daily horoscope or when you will have your next breakup.
Spiritual alignment is the core of human happiness and productivity, and we approach astrology as a tool to enhance this alignment. From a purely objective and transparent point of view.
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Fixed and Flexible Karma: Dridha and Adridha in the Prasna Marga
Is everything in a birth chart fixed? Or can a person change what the planets show? Jyotish has always had to answer this question.
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Outwitting the Stars: Sri Yukteswar on Astrology and the Free Soul
One of the most widely read passages on astrology in modern spiritual literature comes from a conversation between a young seeker and his guru in Bengal.
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Paracelsus: The Wise Man Rules the Stars
Paracelsus (1493 to 1541) is remembered today as a founder of modern pharmacology. The principle that "the dose makes the poison" goes back to him.
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Jyotish: The Eye of the Veda
Today, astrology is often treated as a matter of prediction: what will happen, and when. But jyotish did not begin that way.
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The Music of the Spheres: From Pythagoras to Kepler
For more than two thousand years, some of the greatest minds of the West held that the cosmos is a kind of music.
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The Brihat Jataka, chapter by chapter
Varahamihira's classic read from the beginning, with the Sanskrit, a transliteration and our own English.
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Osho on astrology
Two talks from 1971 on astrology and non-duality, walked through one theme at a time.
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