EYE ON THE SKY: MARS IN VISHAKHA Mars gets out of the difficult constellation of Swati on Jan. 1st and moves into a constellation owned by Jupiter, a dear friend and moves toward conjunction with Jupiter into Jan. 6th. This is a favorable transit as it can promote enterprising, sexual magnetism, mathematical talent, courage, adventurism. […]
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EYE ON JANUARY 2018: EXCITING START TO THE NEW YEAR The Moon is full in Gemini on New Year’s Day opposite Saturn and Venus and so there will be a sense of hang-over and a bit of fear in the morning when we get up. But New Years Day parties will be filled with deep
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EYE ON VEDIC ASTROLOGY: THE NEW YEAR IN VEDIC ASTROLOGY STARTS MARCH 17th-18th Whereas western culture delights in January New Year predictions, the Vedic New Year calendar is often run for the new Moon in March after the spring solstice for the capital city of a country. This year the Vedic New Year does not
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REFLECTIONS ON REVIEWING THE YEAR “People ask me very often how I see the future. And I say that the future is for them to build, however they want it. The unwise regret the past, think the future is destiny and are miserable in present. The wise see their past as destiny, the future as
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EYE ON ASTROLOGY: FOCUS ON DEBILITATED PLANETS PART 2 When the astrologer uses the word “debilitated”, his clients often cringe. Its one of the words we need to take out of our vocabulary. It really means that we have to work 3 times as hard to get results out of that planet and that we
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EYE ON ASTROLOGY: FREE WILL VS. PREDESTINATION My spiritual Guru is fond of saying destiny is height and free-will is weight. There are some factors that are very determined but my sense is that Schools of Karma are always being set up to guide us to making new choices. Do we make the same mistake
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EYE ON ASTROLOGY: FOCUS ON DEBILITATED PLANETS When the astrologer uses the word “debilitated”, his clients often cringe. Its one of the words we need to take out of our vocabulary. It really means that we have to work 3 times as hard to get results out of that planet and that we have to
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EYE ON SPIRITUALITY: THE MOVEMENT OF THE NAKSHATRAS Christmas can often be about “stuff”–more things and toys and gadgets and wrapping paper and endless shopping. I am reminded of one of my favorite novels by Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King (1955) about a Connecticut millionaire who is cleaning out the home of a parent
EYE ON SPIRITUAL ASTROLOGY: THE VIMSHAMSHA (D-20) AND THE BLOCKS TO SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE Still enjoying my spiritual retreat and enjoying deep knowledge of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and still thinking about how this shows up astrologically in people’s charts. There is a special divisional chart, D-20 which is called worship but is often about spiritual practice
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EYE ON SPIRITUALITY: HAPPY CHRISTMAHANAKWANZIKA TO ALL We live in a world where people are blowing each other up because their very tiny ego thinks that their religion and tribe is better than everyone else. As one of spiritual teachers was fond of saying, spirituality is the banana and religion is the peel and people
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