The Tsarnaev Brothers Is there anything more problematic for an astrologer than a client or famous person without a birth time? The Tsarnaev brothers, perpetrators of the April 15th Boston Marathon bombings that killed three and injured 264 others, provide an ideal opportunity to analyze charts from the viewpoint of Chandralagna, a simple concept from […]
Boston: Out of the pressure cooker and into the fi...
After two bombs took their toll on the Boston Marathon, the heat is now on investigators to find those responsible. Can astrology provide clues? My earlier post suggested religious fanaticism as the prime motivation, due to the overwhelming influence of combust Mars and Ketu in the Aries ninth house. Pursuing that same line of thought, […]
Bombs in Boston and Combust Mars
Bombs went off today at the finishing line of the annual Boston Marathon â at 2:50 PM EDT, 15 April 2013 in Boston, MA. In this sidereal chart, ascendant lord Sun and Mars are combust in the ninth house. These already-hot planets are further amplified in Aries where theyâre respectively exalted/owners. Theyâre joined in the ninth by […]
Vedanta in Rishikesh, part 2
23 September 2015 Swamiji talked about looking at a colored piece of cloth and being able to clearly determine whether itâs red or yellow or green. But with ourselves, self-recognition isnât so easy. Thereâs a gap between who we are and who we want to be. To apprehend the difference, we have to think about […]
Oscar Pistorius: Blade Running for his Life?
Life is full of mysteries. One of them is, How did a guy like this end up in a mess like that? Oscar Pistorius is affectionately known as the Blade Runner, thanks to the prosthetic âfeetâ with which heâs propelled himself into the athletic spotlight over the past decade, into the hearts of South Africans […]
Carl Jung: “Like vintage wines, we have the qualit
âWe are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.â ~ CARL JUNG Â
Vedanta in Rishikesh, part 1
In September 2005 I accompanied a group of jyotish students to Rishikesh, India. We stayed at the Dayananda ashram for a week and a half, attending nine days of classes with our teacher, Hart deFouw, on the subject of the nakshatras. While there, we were privileged to also receive a morning discourse on the subject […]
Lindsay Lohan: Fully Loaded
If anyone needed evidence of Rahuâs power to turn an otherwise charmed life into a shit-storm of trouble, look no further than Lindsay Lohan. Lindsay (LiLo) Lohan was born July 2, 1986, at 9:50 pm in New York. (Data courtesy of Astrotheme.com) Her mother was a singer/dancer, her father a Wall Street trader. She began […]
Taylor Swift: Teardrops on my Guitar
Has Taylor Swift embraced an unstable love life just to inspire more “Teardrops-On-My-Guitar” songs? Is this art imitating life, or life imitating astrology? In a recent interview, Swift admitted she falls in love quickly, but also insisted she was not in a hurry, at age 22, to get married and have kids. âI think every […]
Curiosity Rover’s (astrological) landing on Mars
The Curiosity rover landed on Mars on August 6, 2012, at 05:17 UTC. This was a momentous occasion for NASA and its Jet Propulsion Laboratory so I was intrigued to see what the event chart looked like. Since Iâm not an astrophysicist, I looked up âUTCâ to learn it stands for Coordinated Universal Time, which […]