Reading the old texts, slowly.

Single articles

One at a time

• RootsThe roots of Vedic astrologyAn evidence-based history of the actual Sanskrit manuscripts: which texts are old, and how far each can be trusted.
• RootsFixed and Flexible Karma: Dridha and Adridha in the Prasna MargaIs everything in a birth chart fixed? Or can a person change what the planets show? Jyotish has always had to answer this question.
• ReflectionOutwitting the Stars: Sri Yukteswar on Astrology and the Free SoulOne 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.
• ReflectionParacelsus: The Wise Man Rules the StarsParacelsus (1493 to 1541) is remembered today as a founder of modern pharmacology. The principle that "the dose makes the poison" goes back to him.
• RootsJyotish: The Eye of the VedaToday, astrology is often treated as a matter of prediction: what will happen, and when. But jyotish did not begin that way.
• ReflectionThe Music of the Spheres: From Pythagoras to KeplerFor more than two thousand years, some of the greatest minds of the West held that the cosmos is a kind of music.

Series · 27 parts

The Brihat Jataka, chapter by chapter

Varahamihira's classic read from the beginning, with the Sanskrit, a transliteration and our own English.

1. IntroductionAn introduction
2. Article 1The Twelve Signs
3. Article 2Dividing the Signs, and the Houses
4. Article 3The Planets and the Cosmic Person
5. Article 4Aspects, Friendship and Strength
6. Article 5Other Births, and Conception
7. Article 6The Moment of Birth and the Early Years
8. Article 7Length of Life, the Method and its Limits
9. Article 8The Dashas, Timing Life's Chapters
10. Article 9Ashtakavarga
11. Article 10Work and Vocation
12. Article 11Royal Yogas
13. Article 12The Sky's Patterns, the Nabhasa Yogas
14. Article 13The Moon's Company, the Lunar Yogas
15. Article 14Planets Together
16. Article 15The Renouncer's Path
17. Article 16The Moon in the Nakshatras
18. Article 17The Moon in the Twelve Signs
19. Article 18The Planets in the Signs
20. Article 19Aspects and Houses
21. Article 20Strength in the Divisions, and Helping Planets
22. Article 21The Difficult Yogas
23. Article 22The Horoscope of Women
24. Article 23The Last Chapter of Life
25. Article 24Recovering a Lost Birth Chart
26. Article 25The Thirty-Six Faces of the Sky
27. 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.

1. Start hereAbout this series
2. Part 1The Oldest and Most Rejected Science
3. Part 2The Universe Is One Body
4. Part 3The Moon, Water and the Hidden Senses
5. Part 4The Future Pulls
6. Part 5We Are Pieces of the Sun
7. Part 6Birth as Exposure
8. Part 7The Three Layers of Astrology
9. Part 8Astrology as a Door to Spirituality