Before leaving for my trip to the mountains, I invoked Pūṣan in my fire ritual, asking for a safer path on the journey ahead. As I joined one of Meghna Bhagat's Vision to Form classes, Saturn entered Revati. It felt like a literal manifestation in ma...

Dear Friend,May has been a month of quiet rest. The book is moving towards production, Batch 3 of the Diploma begins on June 14, and the nature of the season has settled into long writing mornings and slower afternoons spent with charts and correspon...

Jupiter enters Cancer on the 25th of May 2026 and remains there until the 17th of June 2027, a little over a year in the sign of its exaltation. This transit sets the tone for a longer period rather than mark a single event, and Jupiter in Cancer has...

Dear Friend,Mercury in Taurus last week and although I drafted this last week, I am only now getting around to sending it. I have been traveling recently to step away from some turbulence and to clear my head. It is my pleasure to share a photograph...

Dear Friend,Jupiter moves into Cancer this year and stays there for about twelve months. I have been thinking about this transit for a while, partly because the older texts treat it as one of the most benevolent placements. I wanted to go back to the...

Dear Friend,The past two or three weeks have been somewhat challenging on my end, though I hope they have been gentler with you. There has also been a curious spectacle here in Tamil Nadu, India. The newly elected Chief Minister has officially appoin...

Dear Friend,There is a beautiful verse in the Ṛgveda that describes how the ancient seers "fashioned speech with their mind, filtering it like grain through a sieve."It suggests that true understanding isn’t something we just inherit fully...

The New Moon in Aśvinī is one of the triggers in the month of April that helps us move forward, but that only takes us close to the Saturn-Mars conjunction. However, Aśvinī, associated with the Aśvin twins, will eventually indicate speed, agility, an...

Mars in Aquarius without reception from Saturn can flare things up and blow them out of proportion, which has been the case for the most part. Mars in Pisces, however, is an entirely different expression altogether. Without going into the mundane asp...