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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
First principles
Astrology Foundations
Introductory Jyotish: the chart as map, houses, signs, and how to ask a better question.
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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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When One Planet Serves More Than One Yoga
A graha can complete a raja construction and a dhana construction in the same natal figure — or complete one yoga and spoil another. Dual membership is ordinary. The reading has to say so.
yoga · raja yoga · dhana
6 min read
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Weighing Contradictory Indications
A chart often offers two technically fair sentences that cannot both be the whole story. Method is how you rank them without deleting the one you like less.
interpretation · method · foundations
6 min read
Essay
An Exalted Planet Is Not a Golden Ticket
Dignity is capacity, not a CV stamp. A planet can be powerful without making every area it touches comfortable.
exaltation · dignity · grahas
2 min read
Essay
A Debilitated Planet Is Not a Life Sentence
Neecha is a strain, not a eulogy. Extra work in a domain is not the same as being forbidden to live there.
debilitation · dignity · neecha
2 min read
Essay
Why Empty Houses Are Not Empty Lives
Empty is a drawing instruction. The lord still lives somewhere. An empty seventh does not cancel company. An empty tenth does not cancel work.
houses · empty · lordship
2 min read
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House Lordship: The Part Beginners Often Skip
Reading only the planets sitting in houses is like judging a household by who is on the sofa. The owners still have keys.
lordship · houses · beginner
2 min read