Journal
The SHUKRA Journal
Reflections on Vedic Astrology, planetary patterns, timing and the human experience.
Featured · Foundations
A chart is not a spreadsheet
Early on, I believed that if I learned enough rules, the chart would simply give me the answer. It took me years to unlearn that.
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Dashas
Understanding the rhythm of dashas
Most people who come to a consultation are not really asking what will happen. They are asking when.
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Planets
Shukra: on beauty, value and relationship
People assume I chose the name because Venus is about love. That is part of it, but not the part that mattered most to me.
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Reflections
The same planet, two different lives
Two people can share an almost identical placement and live it in ways that look nothing alike.
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Nakshatras
The 27 nakshatras: the Moon's quiet map
If the signs describe the climate of a chart, the nakshatras describe the weather on a particular afternoon.
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Relationships
How a chart speaks about relationships
Relationship questions are the ones people are most hesitant to ask, and often the ones that matter most to them.
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Career
Career, vocation and the tenth house
Nobody needs an astrologer to tell them what job to do. What a chart can do is show you what already fits.
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Timing
Transits: the sky moving across your chart
Your birth chart is fixed. The sky above you is not. Transits describe the conversation between the two.
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