Astrology Blog
Explore 10 in-depth articles on Vedic astrology, horoscopes, planetary transits, and celestial insights
How to Find Your Janma Nakshatra
How to find your Janma Nakshatra: the arithmetic behind the birth star and pada, the time-zone and ayanamsa pitfalls, checking it against a panchang, and what your birth star sets in motion.
What is Vedic Astrology: Complete Guide
What Vedic astrology (Jyotish) is: its classical roots, how the sidereal, Moon-led system differs from Western astrology, the building blocks of a chart, and what it does and doesn't claim.
How to Read Your Birth Chart
A step-by-step method for reading a Vedic birth chart: the two chart layouts, the ascendant and its lord, the Moon, planetary strength, house lords, aspects, yogas and dasha timing.
Dasha Periods Explained: Life Cycles
What it is actually like to live through a change of dasha — why the same transition reads as dramatic in one chart and unremarkable in another, and where the reference tables sit.
Mercury Retrograde 2026 and 2027 Dates: Myth vs Reality
Mercury retrograde 2026 and 2027 dates (IST, Vedic signs) — and what is fact and what is fiction about Mercury retrograde's influence on your life.
Planetary Transits and Life Events
How Vedic astrology reads planetary transits (gochara): why they are counted from the Moon, each planet's favourable houses, vedha, Sade Sati, ashtakavarga and the link to dasha.
12 Zodiac Signs: Dates, Traits and Month-by-Month Chart
Zodiac sign dates (Western and Vedic), which zodiac sign each month belongs to, and the personality traits of all 12 zodiac signs.
Birth Chart Houses Explained
The 12 houses (bhavas) of a Vedic birth chart: what each governs and its karaka, the kendra, trikona, dusthana and upachaya groups, and how to judge a house through its lord.
Astrology and Career: Finding Your Path
How career is read in a Vedic chart: the houses of work, the tenth lord, planetary vocations, the D10 dashamsha, the amatyakaraka, job versus business, and timing career change.
Love Compatibility: Vedic Approach
How Vedic compatibility works: the eight Ashtakoota factors behind the 36 points, Nadi and Bhakoot doshas and their exceptions, Mangal dosha, and what a reading checks after the score.