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When a Nakshatra Spans Two Signs
Nine lunar mansions begin in one rashi and finish in the next. Sign lord and mansion lord then part company — a common source of mixed readings.
nakshatra · rashi · foundations
5 min read
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Navatara: Counting Nine from the Birth Star
From the janma nakshatra the twenty-seven mansions fall into nine repeating taras. The count is a transit and muhurta tool — a second use of the birth star, after Vimshottari.
nakshatra · navatara · tara
6 min read
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What a Dasha Planet Owns, and Where It Sits
A period-planet always makes two claims at once: the bhavas it rules, and the bhava it occupies. Practical dasha work is the art of holding both without letting one erase the other.
dasha · lordship · occupation
6 min read
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Rahu through the houses
What changes when appetite occupies a different house. Traditional sketches, psychological notes, and a refusal to treat Rahu as a visa stamp.
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Saturn through the houses
Where time, duty and delay take a seat. Saturn cares more about attendance than enthusiasm.
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Where meaning expands. Guru is a teacher, and expansion is not always improvement.
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Tagore: a poet of two worlds
7 May 1861, Calcutta. A public life at the seam of languages. Birth time remains a research problem.
1 min · Birth time: Unknown
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Mercury Retrograde Has Retained Counsel
Mercury retrograde would like to issue a statement. It did not delete your spreadsheet.
lolheal · mercury · astrology
1–2 min read
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Saturn Would Like to See Your Attendance Record
People keep asking Saturn when the reward is coming. Saturn appears to have one question in return: were you there on Tuesday?
lolheal · saturn · discipline
1–2 min read
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Your Mind Wandered During Chanting. Excellent.
Three repetitions later you were thinking about dinner. Then whether penguins have knees. The return is the interesting bit.
lolheal · chantism · attention
1–2 min read
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Number Note
Should You Change Your Name Because of Numerology?
Almost never as a first move. A name is a life, a legal object, and a set of people who already know how to call you.
numerology · names · questions
1 min read
Solution
Can Mantra Be an Astrological Remedy?
Devotional value, named as devotion. No guaranteed causal claim that a Name removes a planet.
mantra · remedies · chantism
2 min read
Number Note
What Is Chaldean Numerology?
An older letter-to-number map, a love of compound numbers, and a lot of later Victorian packaging.
chaldean · foundations
2 min read
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