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Raman Patel

DecisionsWrites about the human side of a reading: why we go, what we carry in, and what a good consultation does to a hard decision. The test of any reading is whether the person leaves with more agency than they brought.
A small Indian painting in gum tempera and gold on paper, taller than it is wide, set inside a wide border of pink and g decisions Checking the calendar too often Of 41 looks in a day, four changed anything. What the other 37 are buying, why it stops working, and three ways to interrupt it. Raman Patel · 30 January 2026 A Mughal miniature painting. On a white marble terrace against a flat green ground and a dusk sky, a bearded man in a wh decisions Bring a decision, not a fear One person asks whether something bad is coming. Another has to answer an offer letter by June. Only the second is a question a chart can work on. Raman Patel · 3 February 2026 A tall Mughal painting with a line of Persian writing in a gold panel across the top. Inside a pale sandstone hall at ni decisions Disagreeing with your chart A reading is a person's judgement, not the sky's verdict. What your objection is addressed to, and how to say it while the hour is still running. Raman Patel · 8 February 2026 A small Indian miniature painting. A royal party has arrived at a sage's hermitage. The blue-skinned Rama, his wife Sita decisions Learning this yourself An honest first year of study: the calendar before the chart, the arithmetic before the meanings, what month three feels like, and what a teacher is for. Raman Patel · 12 February 2026 An Indian gouache painting heightened with gold, inside a pink border. Under a thatched awning at the front of a tiled-r decisions Asking about money first Why the fee is easy to ask about at a dentist's counter and hard here, how to ask before you book, and what an evasive answer is actually telling you. Raman Patel · 16 February 2026 An Indian miniature painting in gum tempera, ink and gold on paper, taller than it is wide, showing the celebration afte decisions A child's chart A sentence spoken over a week-old baby can still be in use at nineteen. What a parent can honestly ask an hour for, and what to say at home. Raman Patel · 20 February 2026 A Mughal night scene painted against a deep black ground. Under a striped awning and a white marble pavilion, a princess decisions Astrology and the anxious mind Consulting can steady a worried mind or quietly hollow it out. The test is not whether the reading was right, but whether you act more afterwards or less. Raman Patel · 24 February 2026 A Mughal album page. A young man in a green robe patterned with small gold flowers kneels on a rug spread over dark gree decisions What to bring The errand before the reading: find the paper your birth time actually came from, work out what it is worth, and write one page before you go. Raman Patel · 3 March 2026 A nineteenth-century Indian gouache painting on a plain cream sheet. A barefoot man stands alone, facing forward, in a l decisions Keeping a decision journal Four lines before a reading, three after. A year later the page corrects your memory of what was said, and sometimes corrects you instead. Raman Patel · 17 March 2026 An Indian painting in gum tempera and gold on paper. A Rajput nobleman, wearing the forehead mark of a devotee of Shiva, decisions How to take notes A page of frantic notes usually contains nothing. What to write while somebody is talking, what to keep off the page, and when to put the pen down. Raman Patel · 19 March 2026 An Indian miniature painting of a single woman leaning at a palace window. She is shown in profile from the waist up, fr decisions The question you have been avoiding He booked the reading to ask about a plot of land. Eleven minutes in, the word he keeps repeating is brother. On the questions a room surfaces. Raman Patel · 4 April 2026 A Company-school painting on aged cream paper. A Brahmin astrologer sits cross-legged on a blue-and-white patterned mat 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. Raman Patel · 14 April 2026 An Indian miniature painting mounted on an aged orange-pink album page. In a pale green meadow between dark rounded tree decisions Second opinions A second reading can be the best money you spend, or the start of a hunt for the answer you wanted. The difference is not the number. Raman Patel · 16 April 2026 A small Mughal miniature painting mounted on a larger album sheet. A Jain monk in white robes walks along a riverbank, a decisions When to stop the session A reading turns into a sale across four or five sentences. What each one is doing, and how to end an hour early without a scene. Raman Patel · 21 April 2026 An Indian miniature painting on aged, chipped paper. Two lines of Devanagari writing run along a yellow band across the decisions The recording question Ask before you book, not in the chair. What a recording of a reading is actually for, what you owe the person on it, and how to read a refusal. Raman Patel · 23 April 2026 A Pahari painting on aged paper, wider than it is tall, inside a dark speckled border and a pale pink margin. Inside a w decisions Nobody wrote down the time The drawer had no hour in it. What a date and a place still buy you, what they honestly do not, and how to ask for an hour that works without one. Raman Patel · 12 May 2026 An Indian miniature painting on aged paper with a yellow border and two lines of Devanagari writing along the top. At th decisions Should I leave this job One woman, one offer, and five ways of putting the same work question to an astrologer. Four of them hand the deciding away before a chart is open. Raman Patel · 18 May 2026 A tall, narrow Mughal painting mounted on a larger album page. A richly dressed woman stands alone in profile, holding u decisions Someone else's chart A photograph of another person's birth details, waiting to be sent. Why a reading about somebody who never agreed to it changes how you treat them. Raman Patel · 29 June 2026 A Mughal miniature on aged paper, in warm greens and blues. Four bearded men in turbans sit cross-legged on a low raised decisions Asking for the reasoning How do you see that there? One hour, replayed twice, and what separates opening a practitioner up from turning the room into a cross-examination. Raman Patel · 15 September 2026