In Vedic astrology, a Kala Sarpa pattern is formed when all of the visible grahas are restricted to one half of the zodiac as divided by the axis of the lunar nodes, Rahu and Ketu. Roughly one in eight of all horoscopes, or 12.5%, reveals the pattern. There are four classes of Kala Sarpa, subject […]
Sharon Stone: the trauma of miscarriage
In a recent post on Instagram, while expressing sympathy for other women whoâve borne the same trauma, Sharon Stone revealed that she has âlost nine childrenâ through miscarriages over the years. Although men are inevitably acquainted with and affected by such tragedies, nothing quite compares to the grief experienced by a prospective mother whoâs carried […]
Randy Andy and the Dungeon of Crumpet
Although he later became a helicopter pilot, Prince Andrew in his youth was never able to fly below the radar of the British tabloids because he was such an obvious target. Before getting married, he was relentlessly tracked by the paparazzi for the sheer number and diversity of his dates â college girls, actresses, models, […]
Jeff Bezos: Croesus of the internet age
Long before the Covid-19 pandemic made shopping-by-Amazon a virtual necessity, Jeff Bezos had already built a mousetrap that brought the world beating a path to his door. Since the inception of Amazon.com in 1994 as an online marketplace for books, the company has since expanded in multiple directions, now selling virtually every kind of consumer […]
Ghislaine Maxwell, procurer for the privileged?
Ghislaine Maxwell, now under arrest and suicide watch, has fallen from the privileged perch she once held as alleged procurer of girls for the pleasure of powerful men. Maxwell is the long-time intimate of Jeffrey Epstein, who supposedly killed himself in jail last August awaiting sentencing for sexual abuse of multiple underage women. Maxwell and […]
Paris Jackson: you canât go back to Neverland
Paris Jacksonâs name turned up on social media last month when TMZ reported that sheâd allegedly made a suicide attempt back in February. She vehemently denied this, but itâs not the first time sheâs been in similar circumstances. Can astrology confirm or deny a rumor such as this? Normal people donât understand depression, let alone […]
Kala Sarpa: the astronomical rationale for âyoga
As I discussed in last monthâs article, one of the great uncertainties among devotees of jyotisha is whether Kala Sarpa is a yoga or a dosha. The existential question is: does it promise success or threaten destruction? As I explained in that article, there are multiple consequences when the chart is split in two by […]
Kala Sarpa: the astronomical rationale for âdosh
At the core of the mystique surrounding Kala Sarpa is the existential question: is it a yoga, or is it a dosha? Does it promise success or threaten destruction? That question can only be answered via yoga vichara, the careful analysis of a configuration in order to determine its nature, its strength, and its ultimate […]
Kala Sarpa: everything you wanted to know but were...
“If the Sun and Moon would doubt,” poet William Blake once wrote, âthey would immediately go out.â As for me, there were times over the past 18 months when my own vision blurred, and I doubted whether I could write a book on Kala Sarpa that would do justice to its myth. But as it […]
Ted Bundy, criminal chameleon
The weird thing about Ted Bundy, people later reflected, was that he never looked the same from one photograph to another. Even in person, he had the ability to metamorphose, with a glance or a turn of his head, from someone of charming intelligence to one of cunning violence. Criminal investigators later attributed his chameleon-like […]