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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.
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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.
- IntroductionAn introduction
- Article 1The Twelve Signs
- Article 2Dividing the Signs, and the Houses
- Article 3The Planets and the Cosmic Person
- Article 4Aspects, Friendship and Strength
- Article 5Other Births, and Conception
- Article 6The Moment of Birth and the Early Years
- Article 7Length of Life, the Method and its Limits
- Article 8The Dashas, Timing Life's Chapters
- Article 9Ashtakavarga
- Article 10Work and Vocation
- Article 11Royal Yogas
- Article 12The Sky's Patterns, the Nabhasa Yogas
- Article 13The Moon's Company, the Lunar Yogas
- Article 14Planets Together
- Article 15The Renouncer's Path
- Article 16The Moon in the Nakshatras
- Article 17The Moon in the Twelve Signs
- Article 18The Planets in the Signs
- Article 19Aspects and Houses
- Article 20Strength in the Divisions, and Helping Planets
- Article 21The Difficult Yogas
- Article 22The Horoscope of Women
- Article 23The Last Chapter of Life
- Article 24Recovering a Lost Birth Chart
- Article 25The Thirty-Six Faces of the Sky
- Article 26Varahamihira's Farewell
Series · 9 parts
Osho on astrology
Two talks from 1971 on astrology and non-duality, walked through one theme at a time.