You are here because you want to learn astrology, starting with Western tropical astrology and then moving on to Indian astrology (also called Vedic astrology or Jyotish). This will allow you to combine the best… Read More »How to Learn On This Blog
A horoscope shows the division of houses in the wheel, with sign-degree positions of the house cusps, and the sign-degree positions of planets in the houses. With this core structure, you can draw the aspects… Read More »Midpoints
In a couple of previous posts, I showed how you can confirm or rectify the birth time by quickly eyeballing solar arc directions to the angles of a horoscope, and drawing a correspondence between the… Read More »Birth Time Rectification Using Solar Arcs – Multiple Takes
In a previous post, I showed how you can confirm a birth time using solar arcs by simply eyeballing the possible direction of a solar arcing planet to an angle, or vice versa. Using the… Read More »Quick Rectification of Birth Time – Eyeballing Solar Arcs
Suppose you are analyzing the chart of a friend. She says her birth data is this: June 1, 1980, 7:30 pm, New York, USA. Can your friend, and you, guarantee that the birth time is… Read More »Quick Confirmation of Birth Time – Eyeballing Solar Arcs
When assessing the quality of any issue in the Jyotish chart, you need to look at that issue from three perspectives: the house that represents it, its functional karaka (the ruler of that house), and… Read More »Jyotish Chart Assessment: The Power of Three
In an early Jyotish post, I introduced the properties of the planets, and described their significations that have to be understood well if you are to properly interpret a chart. To reiterate, a planet signifies… Read More »Jyotish – Quality, Significations, and Strength of Planets
We have looked at the first to third, fourth to sixth, and seventh to ninth houses of the Jyotish horoscope. Which leaves the houses ten, eleven, and twelve. Tenth House If the ninth house is… Read More »Jyotish Houses – Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth
In previous posts, I presented core meanings of the first, second, third houses, as well as the fourth, fifth, and sixth. Now let’s take a look at the next three houses. Seventh House The seventh… Read More »Jyotish Houses – Seventh, Eighth, Ninth
In a previous post, I presented the first, second, and third houses in Jyotish – their significations, with examples of how these might show up in horoscopes. Let’s move forward and look at the fourth,… Read More »Jyotish Houses – Fourth, Fifth, Sixth