In 1975 Paul McCartney sang, “A good friend of mine follows the stars: Venus and Mars are alright tonight.” But as of this week when a hacker group made public the customer database for the Ashley Madison website, Venus and Mars are not alright. In fact, they’ve been up all night fighting… For those who […]
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The Ashley Madison affair: Venus & Mars are not alright tonight…
August 20th, 2015 · Comments Off on The Ashley Madison affair: Venus & Mars are not alright tonight… · Astrology, Crime, Karma
Tags: #vedicastrology·adulterers·ashley madison·avid life media·chandralagna·cheaters·data dump·duchovny·impact team·jyotish·monkey business·toronto·venus retrograde·x-files
Club 27 rockstars: “Hope I die before I get old…”
May 31st, 2015 · 9 Comments · Astrology, celebrity, Karma
“I hope I die before I get old.” ~ Pete Townshend, The Who. Sadly, half of people don’t get what they want, and the other half don’t want what they get. Death is like that for some. They flirt with it, dance with it, lie down with it at night, and sometimes they just don’t wake up. […]
Tags: Amy Winehouse·brian jones·club 27·dead rockstars·janis joplin·jim morrison·jimi hendrix·kurt cobain·nirvana·rolling stones·the doors
Swami Prabhupada: a choice of ascendants
April 27th, 2015 · 3 Comments · Astrology, Crime, India, Karma
Swami Prabhupada Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was a guru and the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the “Hare Krishna Movement”. His mission was to propagate Gaudiya Vaishnavism, a school of Hinduism taught by his guru, throughout the world. A charismatic leader, he emerged as a major figure of […]
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My Practice of Vedic Astrology
July 18th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Astrology, Instruction, Karma, Palmistry, Upaye
This article describing my consultation process first appeared under a slightly different title in the May 2014 edition of Jyotish Star. Thanks to Juliana Swanson for encouragement and guidance, and Christina Collins for publishing. Thanks also to my teachers, Hart DeFouw and his guru Mantrji, without whom I’d never have seen the light of the […]
Tags: amsha·analysis·bhukti·dasha·dynamic·hart defouw·hasta·jyotish·Krishnamurti·numerology·prashna·static·vedic astrology
Lindsay Lohan: Fully Loaded
January 19th, 2013 · 9 Comments · Astrology, celebrity, Karma
If anyone needed evidence of Rahu’s 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 […]
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Pattinson & Stewart: Lovers in the Twilight Zone
July 30th, 2012 · 10 Comments · Astrology, celebrity, Instruction, Karma
Christian Fundamentalist parents all over America can rejoice this month, having received proof positive that vampire adulation will send you to hell – along with other devil worshippers – just as the good book said. This is apparently what’s happened to Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. Once regarded as one of Hollywood’s most beautiful young […]
Tags: Astrology·birth chart·celebrity·horoscope·kristen·pattinson·relationships·stewart·twilight·vedic astrology
Karma & Reincarnation
January 31st, 2012 · Comments Off on Karma & Reincarnation · Astrology, Instruction, Karma
Woody Allen said, “I believe in karma and reincarnation, because nothing else explains how I could get so far behind in just one life.” Half the world’s population believes in reincarnation, which obliges us to be reborn again and again, working on our soul’s multiple-life lessons, like some poor kid who can’t get his college […]
Tags: Astrology·birth chart·horoscope·Instruction·Karma·vedic astrology
Do you, Jennifer, take this juniper…?
July 14th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Astrology, Humour, Instruction, Karma, Upaye
Jyotish, the science of light, otherwise known as Vedic Astrology, gives foresight, insight and hindsight into all affairs of mankind. It can also lead us into some alternative points of view, where problems and their solutions are seen in the light of a different model. It’s not that jyotish controls life, but it has a […]
Tags: 1st marriage·2nd marriage·3rd marriage·marry a tree·remedial marriage
Osama bin Laden: from death to birth
May 31st, 2011 · Comments Off on Osama bin Laden: from death to birth · Astrology, celebrity, Instruction, Karma
As in birth there is the seed of death, so in death there is the seed of birth. With the killing of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, at the hands of Navy SEALs, it became possible to determine an ascendant for the hitherto-unknown birth chart of the world’s most famous terrorist. Bin Laden […]
Tags: Abbottabad·bin laden·osama·SEALs
Timing is everything
July 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on Timing is everything · Karma
“This time, like all times, is a very good time, if only we know what to do with it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Some philosopher once quipped that God invented time to make sure everything didn’t happen all at once. The problem with time is the uncertainty of when things will happen. Because we don’t […]
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