Category: Astrology
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ShadBala Calculations
Method · Jyotisha Why Two Astrologers Compute Different Shadbala for the Same Chart The question is not the arithmetic. It is which chart you compute from. If you have ever asked two Vedic astrologers for a Shadbala reading of the same chart, you have probably noticed that the numbers do not agree. Even when both…
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What a Birth Chart Actually Tells You: A Conversation About Yogas, Karma and Real Life Patterns
One of the things I tell my students repeatedly is this: Astrology software can calculate a chart. It cannot replace the astrologer who has to understand the chart. I recently had a client whose horoscope became a very good teaching example for exactly this reason. There were some extremely strong combinations in the chart, but…
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Books For serious Astrology Learners
My own collected works covers almost 90% of all astrology content wrt to classics however I always recommended reading classics Further Reading After the Foundations Classical texts and modern masters for the reader who wants to go deeper ✦ ✦ ✦ The books I have written are a way in. They are meant to hand…
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When the Luminaries Are Afflicted: How to Read a Difficult Chart Through the 9th and 10th
By Shivanshu Pande Most charts read themselves once you know the sequence. The trouble is that a good number of them do not. When the Sun and Moon are both struggling, the ascendant lord is compromised, and the planetary lordships are scattered across mixed houses with no clear concentration, the ordinary sequence of judgment stops…
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The Highest Trikona and the Highest Kendra: What the Classics Actually Say
By Shivanshu Pande Every serious student of Jyotish is taught early that kendras and trikonas are the strongholds of a chart. What is taught less often, and with much less precision, is the internal hierarchy inside these two groups. Which of the three trikonas is highest, and which of the four kendras is strongest, is…