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DISTILLATE Something begins to dip out of view. It had covered everything like a damp blanket, suffusing everything with dread, fear, humiliation and misery. These were the strands of that which covered, its destined fabric, never to be altered. But like all rules this too had exceptions, and for some the gray blanket protected from the cold of poverty and inflicted the grossness of concrete matter on others who were meant to be strangers to the fabric, at least relatively. It began to dip out of view. Only because of the hope that the Sun shone outside the squat world, where aesthetics and pleasure existed and that there were links with this glorious Sun, deeper than those with transient loss, was this dipping a real anticipation. Sometimes, unless inevitability hits hard, flattens the animal, divinity cannot manifest and the incarnate soul cannot remember its union with That. Upanishads say 'Thou Art That'. It appears to be another of those empty shells unless every ...

JUDGING MENTAL FACTORS IN A HOROSCOPIC NATIVITY The concept of the Kalpurusha or the Cosmic Man is a fundamental centrality in Jyotish. The various Rashis (signs) are said to govern several physiological, psychological, spiritual and religious features of the Cosmic Man who is an astrological summation of created existence. It is in this basic sense that the twelve Rashis, the nine Grahas or planets (as used in Jyotish!) and the twenty-seven Nakshatras or the Lunar Mansions derive their essential validity, meaning and significations. Though psychiatry has gained far greater acceptability in relatively recent times than it used to, there is some inherent dissatisfaction with the purely psychiatric process. Fun is poked at the practitioner for being nothing more than an absent-minded listener. If poking fun at something was a drawback for the concerned discipline, Jyotish would have curled up and died a long time ago. The longevity of the astrological sciences and/or arts, as one may...

CONTEMPORARY JYOTISH The overall nature of Jyotish must be considered to be broad-based and somewhat diffused. This is not to suggest vagueness but to precipitate an understanding that sharply outlined and crisp events are brought about by factors quite beyond our real comprehension. The invaluable contribution of Jyotish is to provide an overwhelming awareness of the quality, nature, growth, tendencies and structure of events, ideas, people, and any number of factors pertaining to life on the planet. Beginning work from this tolerant and mature premise, one can reduce it to individual analyses where quite sharp, sensational and even incredible predictions can be given. It is the writer’s experience that the torrential bliss generated by the Goddess of Jyotish, Jyotir Vidya, can sometimes obliterate or obscure the perspective that is the background of what the Jyotishi is doing. It is hardly a surprise that those uninitiated find Jyotish, and astrology in general, so difficult to a...

MISCELLANEOUS FACTORS IN CHART INTERPRETATION It is frequently seen that a Vakri (retrograde) Graha also gives its effects as if it were posited in the house prior to its actual natal location. This rule shall operate with effect in the said Graha’s Dasha period where it shall become activated to yield its ordained fruits. If this condition is accompanied by sensitive Gochar (transit) of the same Graha then this factum of its retrogression will be seen to yield its fruits visibly. Retrogression will make the Graha more potent to yield its natural and temporal results, in accord with the dicta laid down in various Jyotish classics. Vakri Grahas become heightened as to their intensity. If the Graha is otherwise auspiciously placed, in exaltation, Mooltrikona, own Rashi, is exalted or otherwise well-placed in Navamsha Kundli (Ninth Harmonic Chart), associated with benefics or other auspicious Grahas for the Kundli under scrutiny, it might give unusual results, inasmuch as the Jatak (n...