As astrologers, weâre often portrayed as oddballs, out on the fringe of the healing arts professions. Unconsciously or not, this has given some of us a collective insecurity complex, such that weâre left clinging to the hem of societyâs skirt, crying for attention like some little kid in need of a hug. Little wonder that, […]
Woody Allen said, âI believe in karma and reincarnation, because nothing else explains how I could get so far behind in just one life.â Half the worldâs population believes in reincarnation, which obliges us to be reborn again and again, working on our soulâs multiple-life lessons, like some poor kid who canât get his college […]
What is it with those writers in Hollywood? I thought everybody in California had an astrologer. Or even if they donât have one, surely theyâve been reading Rob Bresznyâs Real Astrology column long enough to know the rules of the game. Everything stops dead in its tracks for retrograde Mercury. Uh-oh, wait a minute, you […]
Just as every trip begins with but a single step, so each blog begins with but a few words… This will be the first of a series of running commentaries on astrology in general, with a bias for Jyotish, or Vedic astrology. I hope you’ll come back for more!
âA child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma.â ~Sri Yukteswar
Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt. The Fates lead him who will; him who wonât, they drag.
âThe greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.â ~Michelangelo
âDirect examination of psychologically healthy people shows pretty clearly that they are positively attracted to the mysterious, to the unknown, to the puzzling and unexplained. This is noteworthy because it contrasts sharply with the psychologically sick person’s tendency to be threatened by the unfamiliar, the ambiguous, the unknown.â ~Abraham Maslow
âI’m a Leo with something odd rising.â ~Robert Plant
âA physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.â ~Hippocrates