The Journal
Fundamentals, transits, and the astronomy behind the symbolism.
Guna Milan assigns points across eight categories to assess marriage compatibility in Vedic astrology. Understanding what each dimension evaluates—and what it omits—helps you read the score as a tool, not a verdict.
A Sunday ruled by the Sun meets the darker lunar phase and a martial nakshatra, creating a day of purposeful effort tempered by caution. The yoga warns against hasty decisions.
Older than the twelve signs, the nakshatras are the Moon's nightly stations. A plain guide to what they are, why they matter, and the character of all twenty-seven.
Vedic astrology reads the Moon first. The lunar mansion it occupied at your birth sets the tone of the mind and the clock of your whole life.
Before any planet is read, a Vedic chart is oriented from the lagna, the degree rising in the east at birth. It is why the exact minute rules everything after.
A planet can look strong in the main chart and hollow underneath. The navamsa, the ninth-harmonic chart, is where Vedic astrology tests the promise.
Same planets, same sidereal zodiac, two very different resolutions. How classical Parashari and the twentieth-century KP system divide the work.
No planet ever goes backward. Retrograde is an illusion of perspective, and understanding the optics deflates most of the panic around it.
Western astrology leans on transits for timing. Vedic astrology adds a second clock, the dasha system, driven by the Moon at your birth.
Signs describe how a planet behaves. Houses describe where it shows up in your life. A grounded tour of all twelve.