ASTRO BLOG

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 […]

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

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

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

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

EYE ON PATANJALI’S YOGA SUTRAS,  AND ASTROLOGY AND THE FIVE YAMAS: Vedic astrology, spiritual practice and hatha yoga are intimately connected.  Meditation is a core component of Vedic astrology and with out spiritual practice, its hard to overcome have awareness  of our spiritual karma and how to handle it and manage it. There are five

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. But   New Years Day parties will be filled with deep love and heart-felt expansion

EYE ON ASTROLOGY: ATMAKARAKA–JOURNEY OF THE SOUL The  great sage, Maharishi Parashara, had a son or devotee called Jaimini who did commentaries on some of Parashara’s materials.  In those days there might have been a 2-3 hour talk and we got a sutra for it and some of the more obscure items were then later

EYE ON THE SKY: MERCURY DIRECT ON DEC. 22ND Today is Wednesday, ruled by Mercury the trickster who plays tricks on us to make us laugh.  The Sun/Saturn conjunction has not helped with the laughter and this Mercury retrograde has been a killer for many and will finally come to an end on Friday night.