Barry Rosen

EYE ON VEDIC FESTIVALS: MAHA SHIVARATI, FRIDAY, FEB. 24TH. Maha Shivaratri is the most auspicious day of the entire year to worship Lord Shiva and receive his most compassionate grace. On this day, Lord Shiva’s complete grace showers down upon the entire Earth.   While the Western community may have difficulty relating to Vedic dieties, they are largely symbolic. […]

EYE ON THE SKY: MERCURY INTO AQUARIUS Mercury moved into Aquarius this morning, on its day of the week, Wednesday and is at the beginning of a new sign so a bit weak today creating more nervousness, worry, out-of-step thinking or being stuck in small details.  The transit this month is a bit afflicted as

EYE ON THE SKY:  DEALING WITH ANXIETY Saturn is still weak in transit until March 16th and then we only get a relief for about 5 weeks until the retrograde brings it up all over again through Thanksgiving.  We are going to have master fear of the future or be miserable all year. The mind

EYE ON THE SKY: SUN CONJUNCT KETU FEB 22ND This is a weird week between the eclipses with the Sun conjunct Ketu on Wednesday, Feb. 22nd using the true node system.   Sun and Ketu are both fiery planets and their conjunct will increase that element. This transit brings up a lot of rajasic energy which

EYE ON HEALTH AND VEDIC ASTROLOGY: The Sun went into the constellation of Shatabhishak Feb. 19-March 4th (Aquarius 6.40-19.59) and we have focused on the need to stay on top of health and healing this month with the conjunction to Ketu on Feb. 22nd and the solar eclipse into Feb. 26th. If Vedic astrology the

EYE ON THE SKY: SUN IN AQUARIUS (6.40-19.59) The transits into the the constellation of Shatabhishak (on Sunday, Feb. 19th for 13 days is a complicated.  This star in Western astronomy is know as Gamma Aquarri and is located at 6.40-Aquarius to 20.00 Aquarius in the zodiac.  This constellation  is ruled by Rahu the North

EYE ON ASTROLOGY:  THE HIDDEN FLAWS OF THE ELEMENTS BY RISING SIGN PART 2 As we discussed in Part 1, (see: https://www.appliedvedicastrology.com/hidden-challenges-rising-signs-achilles-heals-part-1/) our  rising sign, which is called the Lagna in Vedic astrology, represents our personality, our temperament, disposition, tendencies, confidence, self-love and self-esteem and its afflictions reveal our inherent internal struggles.  If the owner

EYE ON ASTROLOGY: SHINING LIGHT ON OUR HIDDEN FLAWS   Part 1 With the Sun very afflicted this month at least until March 5th when it goes into Jupiter’s constellation of Purvabhadrapada (Aquarius 20-Pisces 3.20)  there is a tendency to be very hard on oneself but it can also be a time for looking deeply at

EYE ON FINANCIAL ASTROLOGY: INTEREST RATES The Mystery of Interest Rate Futures  and the Stars Interest rate futures  have evolved into one of the most heavily traded and popular, markets and have become particularly popular for day trading. Yet, often their mysterious gyrations appear to be baffling. Bullish reports are sold-off; bearish reports are aggressively