ASTRO BLOG

Day 9: Sunday, Oct 9th:   The Gift of Centeredness Amidst Change Ma Siddhi Datri is the ninth goddess and a  embodiment of Goddess Saraswati. Her name means the “giver of Boons/accomplishments.”   She blesses those who practice their yoga and mediation regularly due to discipline.   She reminds us that if we are regular in our spiritual […]

DAY 8:  OCT 8 We have been discussing the nine days a rebirth process of the child being reborn in the womb of the mother and we are getting closer to our new birth.  Today is connected to Maha-Gauri, the white pearl and mother of full grace and beauty and serenity, radiant like the moon. 

DAY 7: Rising to Timelessness and Freedom. We have discussed how the nine days of Mother Divine is the journey from the material existence from the base chakra to the heavens and on Day 7, the darkest day, the energy moves from the third eye to the crown chakra and it is the first of

LAKSHIMI AND THE EIGHT ATTRIBUTES OF WEALTH:    by Barry Rosen With the next 3 days connected to Lakshmi during the Nine Days of Mother Divine, it is time to focus on the broader aspects of wealth and not just physical and material money. We usually think of wealth as material comfort but Vedic texts remind

LAKSHMI: DAY 4:  THE SOLAR SMILE OF THE DIVINE MOTHER Days 3-6 of the Nine Days, Oct. 4-6 are devoted to Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth.  Specifically, the days are devoted as follows: Day Four: Kusmanda – She Who brings happiness and Warmth Day Five: Skandamata – Mother of Skanda, The Destroyer of Tamas and

WEEKLY PLANETARY FORECAST FROM BARRY ROSEN There are a number of positives this week as Mercury transits back into Virgo its place of exaltation and Venus stays in Libra, its own sign for another 10 days until Oct. 13th.  Virgos and Taurus and Gemini rising benefit most from this transit which brings out Mercury’s intelligence,

EYE ON VEDIC FESTIVALS: DAY 1 –DEVOTED TO DURGA This new moon day in Virgo is very special in the Vedic calendar and starts the nine days of Mother Divine.  We can liken this next period until Sept. 29th to a rebirth period where the soul is gestating in the womb of the Mother ready

When the moon crossed back over Rahu on Sept. 28th it re-triggered the Kala Sarpa Yoga in transit for the next two weeks until Oct. 12th when the moon moves back into Pisces. Some astrologers think it will triggered more in earnest when Mercury goes back into Virgo on Oct. 3rd as a true yoga

PLUTO STATIONARY ON SEPT. 26TH: POWER AND TRANSFORMATION Pluto is going stationary direct today and is very powerful in the sky. Pluto is connected with power and transformation and in extreme cases death of the old so that the new can arise.  The cocoon has be destroyed so that the butterfly can emerge. Dennis Harness,

Its been an intense week and we have an ayurvedic slang word, “vata-deranged” which means too much happening, too much craziness, too much noise moving through the mental and physical system.  Relax.  Worse of it is over by Saturday Oct. 9th and it should get better.   The intensity of a hurricane embodies Saturn/Rahu and at