"Thank you so much for the beautiful reading. I have listened to the recording a number of times, and each time I do, I hear something different, or something else drops a level in my understanding. I was so inspired by your knowledge and clarity that I have signed up to study with you on your philosophy course.” - Fiona C
The dark quadrant of the year begins with opportunity. On 26 September, just days after the equinox, Pitru Paksha commences, the fortnight of the ancestors. It’s a most sacred period in the Indian calendar. From Full Moon to New Moon, the night sky is progressively darker. With the autumnal equinox just crossed, the darkest period Read More…
The times are out of joint. Anxiety about the state of the world preoccupies most every thinking person across the globe these days. Those living in actual war zones—and sadly there are many of those today—suffer much more than creeping anxiety. Violence, destruction of homes and infrastructure, oppression, torture, terrorism, poverty, hunger—these are realities for Read More…
Many clients have confided in me lately about feeling a vague sense of dread. I’ve studied a lot of charts, and the truth is almost everyone has the potential somewhere and at sometime to be overwhelmed by free-floating anxiety. This is not a bad thing, disturbing as it might feel. It’s a call to pay Read More…
By Marianne Jacuzzi, M.A., E-RYT 500, Jyotish Visharada, Jyotish Kovid, Jyotish Brihaspati Springtime inspires hope. Everywhere Nature is renewing herself, awakening from the torpor of winter. In Ireland, where I lived for over 30 years, darkness begins to lift in late January, when the first few flowers appear, tiny white blossoms called “snowdrops”. Crocuses Read More…
If you’re new to the wonders of Jyotish, the Sun provides a simple but powerful practice where all can begin. Right now—with the Winter Solstice upon us—is the perfect time to begin. On the darkest day of the year, Sun reaches the most southernly point in his annual journey (from a Northern Hemisphere perspective). But Read More…
Yogis understand Sun and Moon as energies that regulate prana, the life force as it shapes itself into the physical body of bones and blood as well as the subtle body of expanding auras of consciousness. Sun and Moon—pingala and ida, male and female, day and night, Shiva and Shakti—represent the fundamental duality of existence. Read More…
The veils began thinning months ago. At midsummer, Sun commences his journey southward. Darkness slowly increases, imperceptibly at first, obscured by the exuberance and heat of summer. Dakshinayana, the dark half of the year, begins when Sun enters Cancer, around July 15th, according to the sidereal zodiac of Vedic Astrology. The season for solitude, for Read More…
Steeped in myth and metaphor, Indian cosmology arises out of the profoundest insights of spiritual masters from an ancient civilisation we understand only vaguely. These were not ordinary minds. The rishis and sages of pre-Vedic India lived in unbroken harmony with the cycles of nature, their awareness diffusive, intimately attuned to the mathematical precision at Read More…
Expect the unexpected, because as Bob Dylan sang back in the 1960’s, ‘the times they are-a- changin’. Only what’s happening now is perhaps an even more radical historical shift. Once this pandemic recedes, the world will emerge reconfigured—similar to what happened after each of the two world wars of the twentieth century, and similar to Read More…
Waiting belongs to the essence of Christmas. Advent calendars, letters to Santa, puddings tucked away in cupboards, gifts wrapped and hidden under Christmas trees—all our many rituals partake of a similar theme. Long ago when the angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she was to be the Mother of God—and she surrendered with perfect trust Read More…
