The reading place
Essays on the computed sky
Seven series, twice a week: panchang craft, worked computations, the fears examined, and the twenty-seven stars taken one at a time. A reading is a decision tool, not a prophecy.
Never met any of this before? Every essay here has a two minute plain English version, written for somebody who knows nothing about astrology, Sanskrit or the Indian calendar.
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decisions
How to choose an astrologer
You cannot grade a reading by its output, so grade the room instead: what gets said in the first five minutes, and what happens when you try to leave.
nakshatra-files
Rohini, and the moon who would not keep the rota
An orange point comes up in the east a few hours before the sun. That is Aldebaran, and this is the story of the moon who would not leave her.
tradition
The many schools of jyotisha
Parashari, Jaimini, Tajika, nadi, and the regional computation traditions: one sky read through several different grammars, and why that is a strength.