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thirty-nine pieces on the parts of vedic astrology that get quoted constantly and explained badly. every one of them shows the mechanism, and most come with a calculator so u can run ur own chart instead of trusting a table.
a free kundli costs almost nothing to make
the maths is settled and the compute is negligible. so the money is somewhere else in the building, and it is worth knowing where.
read the story explainerhow to pick a vedic astrology app, from people who make one
ten checks, three product categories that keep getting confused, and a straight list of where our competitors beat us.
read the story explainermercury never gets more than 28 degrees from the sun
and almost everything budha does in a chart follows from that one fact. combustion, budhaditya, and the house by house read.
read the story explainerwhy ur festival is named a different month in delhi
half the country ends the lunar month at the new moon and half at the full moon. same night, two names.
read the story explainernine nights, nine forms, one moving date
what each of the nine nights marks, why there are four navratris a year, and the honest story behind the colour chart.
read the story explainerthe retrograde ended. why does nothing feel finished?
because the same fifteen degrees are still being crossed for a third time. what a shadow period is, and how much of it to believe.
read the story explainerdhanteras is inside mercury retrograde this year
a muhurat and a transit are two different systems and one was never built to override the other. buy the thing, keep the receipt.
read the story explainera muhurat is forty eight minutes and a decision
what actually gets checked, how rahu kaal and abhijit are worked out, and the part of it that genuinely works.
read the story explainer18 percent of ur life is mercury retrograde
three weeks, three times a year, forever, for everybody. here is what the evidence shows and why u keep noticing.
read the story explainermercury retrograde is an optical illusion with a schedule
it laps us on the inside and our line of sight runs backwards. the geometry, the 2026 dates, and the vedic reading that says vakri means strong.
read the story explainerhow to read ur kundli, step by step
twelve boxes, nine grahas and no instructions. here is the order that actually works, from the lagna outward, with a checklist at the end.
read the story explainergemstones by planet, and when not to wear one
nine grahas, nine stones, two schools that flatly disagree about who should wear what, and the questions that stop u being robbed.
read the story explainersaturn in ur chart, minus the fear
two and a half years a sign. everything shani means comes from how slowly it moves, and none of it is punishment.
read the story explainerraj yoga is a handshake between two houses
a kendra lord meeting a trikona lord. that is the whole rule, most charts have one, and it does nothing until the dasha arrives.
read the story explainernadi dosha is one koota carrying eight points
the biggest single item in the 36 point match, and it is all or nothing. roughly one couple in three fails it. here are the exceptions.
read the story explainerwhen will i get married, and what a chart can actually say
the 7th lord, venus, the dasha and a jupiter transit. four real things that produce a window, not a date.
read the story explainerthe navamsa chart is ur chart at higher magnification
every sign cut into nine. 108 slices, the same 108 as the nakshatra padas. the second grid on ur printout, explained.
read the story explainerur lagna matters more than ur sun sign
the sign rising at ur birth minute decides where all twelve houses land. change it and nothing in the sky moves, but every reading does.
read the story explainerrahu and ketu, the two grahas that are not there
two points where the moon's path crosses the sun's. no body, no light, permanently opposite, and the tradition weights them heavily.
read the story explainerkaal sarp dosha is a line in the sky, not a curse
seven grahas on one side of the rahu ketu axis. that is the entire rule, it is in no classical text, and it is not rare.
read the story explainerur career house, read properly
the 10th house gets treated like a machine that spits out job titles. it is not one.
read the story with calculatorwhy hindu festival dates move every year
diwali is not on the same date every year, for the same reason easter is not. it follows the moon, not the sun.
read the story with calculatorhow ashtakoota actually scores compatibility out of 36
"we're a 28 out of 36" gets said a lot, and almost nobody saying it can name the eight things being checked. here is what each koota looks at, and how the number gets built.
read the story with calculatormanglik dosha is a house number, not a sentence
mars in one of six houses. that is the whole definition.
read the story with calculatorsade sati is not a curse. it's a performance review.
seven and a half years of Saturn checking ur work, in three phases, on a schedule anyone can look up. here is what sade sati actually is, and what is being sold to u in its name.
read the story with calculatorwhat an eclipse actually does to your birth chart
two eclipses this month, and u cannot see either one from where ur standing. here is what an eclipse actually wakes up in a vedic chart, and why sutak does not apply to a sky u cannot see.
read the story with calculatorangel numbers, and the honest reason u keep seeing them
111 on the clock, 444 on a receipt, 222 on a number plate, all in one afternoon. here is every repeating number and what people say it means, where the idea really came from, and the well-documented reason ur brain keeps pointing at them.
read the story with calculatorwhat a dasha is, and why ur life has chapters
a fixed 120-year cycle, split between nine planets, starting from wherever ur moon was standing when u were born. here is how vimshottari dasha works, and why it is the clock vedic astrology runs on.
read the story with calculator27 nakshatras, ranked by how messy they are
ur rashi comes from a 12-sign zodiac. ur nakshatra comes from a finer 27-part one underneath it, and that is the one vedic astrology actually keeps time with.
read the story with calculatorthe panchang is five numbers, not a mood
every good-timing date u have ever been quoted was built out of exactly five measurements of one day. here is what each one is, how it is worked out, and why two panchangs can disagree about the same tuesday.
read the story with calculatorhow accurate does ur birth time actually need to be
ur rising sign changes about every two hours, which is why no two births give quite the same chart. here is what a wrong birth time actually costs u, and what to do if u don't have an exact one.
read the story with calculatorsun sign vs moon sign vs rising sign, actually explained
most people know one sign. a real chart has three running at once, and they are hardly ever the same.
read the story explainervedic vs western astrology, difference by difference
they come from the same root, split around the second century, and now disagree about ur sign, ur planets, ur houses and how the future gets timed. here is every difference that matters, and what to do when the two describe u differently.
read the story with calculatorur kundli is a diagram, not a prophecy
twelve boxes, nine grahas, one minute of one day. here is what each part of a kundli is, why the north and south indian ones look nothing like each other, and how to read yours in the order that actually works.
read the story with calculatorwhy ur sun sign is different in vedic astrology
ur vedic sun sign is usually one sign behind ur western one. the two systems start counting from different places in the sky.
read the story with calculatorthe twelve houses, explained one at a time
signs tell u how a planet behaves. houses tell u where in ur life it does it.
read the story with calculatorthe nine grahas, and why there is no pluto
seven things u can see with ur own eyes, plus two spots where the moon crosses the sun's path. that is the whole cast.
read the story with calculatorthe twelve rashis, and why urs probably moved
same twelve signs, different starting line. here is every rashi with its ruler, element and real dates, why ur sign is usually one behind the western one, and why nobody in vedic astrology is born on a cusp.
read the story explainerwhat vedic astrology actually is, minus the mystique
nine planets, twelve houses, twenty-seven star slices, and one measurement that makes the whole thing different from the horoscope in a magazine. here is the entire system, in the order that makes it make sense.
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