Essay
What If the Birth Time Is Only “About 8 pm”?
About 8 pm is a climate, not a clock. The lagna can move. Some of the chart can still be spoken to. Label the uncertainty.
birth time · lagna · reliability
2 min read
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What If Your Birth Time Is Wrong?
Then the houses are a rumour. The planets in signs still have weather. Honesty about the hour is a virtue, not a failure.
birth time · questions · method
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Research
Birth-time reliability: five honest badges
Verified, highly rated, reported, disputed, unknown. Never present a guess as marble.
birth time · method · reliability
1 min read
Essay
When the Ascendant Sits on a Sign Boundary
A few minutes can move the rising from one sign to the next. House-level claims should shrink when the hour sits on that edge.
lagna · ascendant · birth time
2 min read
Short
Navamsha needs a minute
D9 is a fine map. Fine maps punish guessed times.
navamsha · birth time
1 min read
Chart Study
Tagore: a poet of two worlds
7 May 1861, Calcutta. A public life at the seam of languages. Birth time remains a research problem.
tagore · chart study · jupiter
1 min read
Essay
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
Essay
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
Essay
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