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The Nepal Earthquake on Saturday, the 25 th of April, 2015 shortly before noon, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale and the aftershocks therafter,   as well as the earthquake on Sunday, the 26 th of April, 2015 measuring 6.7 in magnitude can be attributed solely to the condition of transit Mercury/   Budha at this time.   The transit chart is given below for ready reference-     Tattwa (Element) - Mercury (Budha) rules the Pṛthwi (Prithwi or the Earth element) Tattwa in Vedic astrology. Earthquake in Vedic Astrology - Earthquake is quite simply the earth quaking or moving which is a disturbance and anomaly in the Pṛthwi Tattwa because this element is fixed. Earth, the planet which we live on furnishes a constant context of fixity, which brings to our lives the notion of stability and being rooted. When the Earth moves, we feel completely disoriented- apart from the damage of property and homes and construction and the loss of ...

Just as the Moon transited out of debilitation in Scorpio and away from its conjunction with Saturn, things did not get easier.   For one thing, Saturday intervened, ruled by the malefic Saturn and its energies were dominant on its own day as they always are. Mercury, the significator of rationality, is debilitated and heading towards Gandanta which it occupies in both Pisces and Aries. This has in some cases led to ill-considered communications, needless vitriol, intellectual frailty and doubt in people whose horoscopes typically contain such problems. The transit Moon is also in Capricorn aspected by both Saturn and Rahu and bringing the energies of the malefic planets in areas such as work, and worse disease and long standing affliction.   On the positive side it is such transits which can precipitate major problems in life so that the concerned people can look at them squarely and address them. The Sun is going to be exalted in Aries soon but before ...

  Nodding off and sitting up - Perplexed, he awakes to another world. A world which is required to be seen and understood , that which does not weave itself through the imponderable, the fast and the illusory. Rahu Dasha - What is it that weaves itself through the speedy fabric of hedonism and abandon. It is the Rahu Dasha/ Rāhu Daśā. He is perplexed because Rāhu and Ketu are not easy to understand and could have probably befuddled the native endlessly for eighteen years, the period in the Viṃśottarī Daśā/ Vimshottari Dasha scheme. The Nodes - The Nodes of the Moon confuse because they are not there in mass- they are there as astronomical or mathematical points. Are they then there or not there. They are not there and yet they are there. They are inflexions of the mind signified by the Moon or Chandra (Cañdra). Things change - Why does he awake and not stay perplexed for ever more. The Daśā changes and brings another eclipse of the being t...

Baisakhi/ Vaishakhi - The festival of Baisakhi/ Vaishakhi is celebrated in India when the transit Sun enters its exaltation sign of Aries in Vedic Astrology. This happens on April 14 this year in 2015. Sun in Aries Transit Chart - The transit chart for the ingress of Sūrya/ Surya/ the Sun into Aries is given below-     Strength of Planets - At this point in time, the planets are in great strength and dignity. Jupiter/ Guru - The greatest benefic Jupiter/ Gurū/ Guru is exalted in Cancer/ Karkaṭa/ Karkata Rāśi/ Rashi. Wisdom and benefic divine grace abounds especially as Guru has ended its retrogression in the sign and gives the results of past auspicious deeds/ Poorva Punya/Pūrva Puṇya in full vigour. Mercury/ Budha - Mercury/ Budha the other great benefic has ended its journey in debilitation in Mīna Rāśi/ Meena Rashi/ Pisces and though it is in an inimical sign, it is no longer debilitated.   Yoga...