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Where Vedic astrology differs from the astrology you know: the sidereal zodiac, the signs’ ruling planets, and how the planets relate.
10 articles
- Aspects in Vedic astrology: which planets see yoursAspects in Vedic astrology are looks across whole houses. Which houses each planet sees, how strongly, sign aspects and what a look does, all cited.
- Exalted and debilitated planets in Vedic astrology, by signWhich sign exalts each planet in Vedic astrology, which one debilitates it, the exact degrees, and what a centuries-old text reads into each.
- House lords in Vedic astrology: find and read yoursWhat a house lord is in Vedic astrology, how to find all twelve of yours from your rising sign, and which lords the text calls kind or hard.
- What is my Vedic Moon sign? Find yours and what it meansYour Vedic Moon sign is the sign the Moon stood in at your birth, counted against the stars. How to find yours, and what each of the twelve means.
- 10th house in Vedic astrology: what yours says about workWhat the 10th house means in Vedic astrology: your work, standing, father and time abroad. How to find yours and read its ruler in each of the 12 houses.
- Vedic rising sign (lagna): what yours meansYour Vedic rising sign, the lagna, sets every house in your chart. How to find yours, and which planets help or test each of the twelve.
- How to read your Vedic birth chart: a beginner's guideRead your Vedic birth chart step by step: your rising sign, the twelve houses, each house's ruler and your years, from a centuries-old Sanskrit text.
- What is a nakshatra? Your birth star in Vedic astrologyA nakshatra is one of 27 star segments, and your birth star is where your Moon sat. How to find yours, and what a centuries-old Sanskrit text does with it.
- Sidereal vs tropical: why your Vedic sign is differentYour Vedic Sun sign is usually the one before your Western sign. What a centuries-old Sanskrit text counts the signs from, verse by verse.
- Which planet rules your sign in Vedic astrologyVedic astrology gives Scorpio to Mars and Aquarius to Saturn, and has no Uranus, Neptune or Pluto. All twelve rulers, verse by verse.
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- Not in the text 4
- Divisional charts 3
- Dashas 7
- Yogas 1
- Planets together 3
- Vedic basics 10
- The planets 4
- Soul planet (atmakaraka) 1
- How we read the text 1
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