LAKSHIMI AND THE EIGHT ATTRIBUTES OF WEALTH: by Barry Rosen With the next 3 days connected to Lakshmi during the Nine Days of Mother Divine, it is time to focus on the broader aspects of wealth and not just physical and material money. We usually think of wealth as material comfort but Vedic texts remind […]
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LAKSHMI: DAY 4: THE SOLAR SMILE OF THE DIVINE MOTHER Days 3-6 of the Nine Days, Oct. 4-6 are devoted to Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. Specifically, the days are devoted as follows: Day Four: Kusmanda – She Who brings happiness and Warmth Day Five: Skandamata – Mother of Skanda, The Destroyer of Tamas and
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WEEKLY PLANETARY FORECAST FROM BARRY ROSEN There are a number of positives this week as Mercury transits back into Virgo its place of exaltation and Venus stays in Libra, its own sign for another 10 days until Oct. 13th. Virgos and Taurus and Gemini rising benefit most from this transit which brings out Mercury’s intelligence,
ASTROLOGICAL WEATHER REPORT: OCT. 3-10TH: CLEARING AND BRIGHTER WITH INTENSITY AT TIMES Read More »
EYE ON VEDIC FESTIVALS: DAY 1 –DEVOTED TO DURGA This new moon day in Virgo is very special in the Vedic calendar and starts the nine days of Mother Divine. We can liken this next period until Sept. 29th to a rebirth period where the soul is gestating in the womb of the Mother ready
When the moon crossed back over Rahu on Sept. 28th it re-triggered the Kala Sarpa Yoga in transit for the next two weeks until Oct. 12th when the moon moves back into Pisces. Some astrologers think it will triggered more in earnest when Mercury goes back into Virgo on Oct. 3rd as a true yoga
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PLUTO STATIONARY ON SEPT. 26TH: POWER AND TRANSFORMATION Pluto is going stationary direct today and is very powerful in the sky. Pluto is connected with power and transformation and in extreme cases death of the old so that the new can arise. The cocoon has be destroyed so that the butterfly can emerge. Dennis Harness,
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Its been an intense week and we have an ayurvedic slang word, “vata-deranged” which means too much happening, too much craziness, too much noise moving through the mental and physical system. Relax. Worse of it is over by Saturday Oct. 9th and it should get better. The intensity of a hurricane embodies Saturn/Rahu and at
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Jupiter is conjunct the Sun on Monday, Sept. 26th. This aspect has been ignored a bit with so much going on but. For Leos and this Sunday, the energy will be very high and charged with wisdom and confidence and enthusiasm and expansion and comfort as the Sun will take on the energy of Jupiter
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Autumnal Equinox is on Thursday, Sept. 22nd. The ancient cultures always took time to celebrate during this time and do extra spiritual practice. The planetary energies get a bit weird as they rebalance and the tendency is try to do too much during the change of seasons and this can lead to sickness. Take it
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Mars in the first 3 degrees of Sagittarius is a very difficult place where deep and ancient karmic issues come up to be healed and this is going on until Thursday, Sept. 22nd. Part of the problem is that Mars has been rather mellow and at home in Scorpio in a water sign and even
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