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
In a previous post, I introduced the houses in a Jyotish horoscope, including the various ways in which they are categorized according to various perspectives of interpretation. Let’s get into the detailed description of these… Read More »Jyotish Houses – First, Second, Third
The first thing to remember is that Jyotish uses a whole-sign house system, where each house is one whole sign. The 1st house contains the sign of the ascendant, and the ascendant itself falls somewhere… Read More »Houses in a Jyotish Horoscope
Western astrology proposes numerous aspects each with a specific interpretation. Aspects come with orbs-an aspect is only defined to work if it is within a certain orb, and the closer the orb, the more intense… Read More »Planetary Aspects in Jyotish
I introduced Jyotish or Vedic astrology in a previous post, where you saw how a Western chart can be translated into its Jyotish equivalent by subtracting the applicable ayanamsa for the date of birth. You… Read More »Planets in Jyotish
I spent many years learning and practicing Western tropical astrology before I got the itch to branch out into the Indian system of astrology that is alternately called Vedic astrology (implying a relationship to the… Read More »From Western to Jyotish (aka Vedic)