Indian weddings are known for their grandeur and week-long festivities and have been in the news lately as a $11 billion dollar market (second largest in the world). So much emphasis is on the Bollywood aspect of Indian weddings people forget the significance of the Vedic rites and rituals that are also performed to elevate the mind of the bride/groom and guests to higher consciousness.
Read MoreWhile the Europeans were still debating whether the earth was flat or not, the Vedic sages had already figured out the effects of the earth’s wobble on the calculations of the zodiac. It is quite amazing how advanced the Vedic civilization was in mathematics, science and astronomy that even without the aid of modern technologies they had calculated that the orientation of the equinoxes to the fixed stars precedes or moves backward through the zodiac at the rate of about 50.3 seconds per year or about 1 degree every 70 years (and it adds to about 24 degree over 2000 years).
Read MoreA book by Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, has fueled controversy worldwide ever since the Wall Street Journal published the editorial “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior”. Other articles like, “The World on Fire” and Time magazine’s cover story this week, “Parenting Memoir Raises American Fears”, have brought the debate of the merits of Asian style discipline to the front pages of our lives.
Read MoreIn my practice the vast majority of my new clients are dealing with a difficult Saturn Dasha or transit. In fact, I can follow Saturn’s movement around the zodiac in my client’s chart – for example since the fall of 2009 when Saturn entered Virgo, most of my new clients are either in the Saturn Dasha or have their moon or rising sign in Virgo or Libra, as Saturn is putting stress on those two signs right now.
Read MoreMy conversation with Dr. Stephanie Shorter on the relationships, science and spirituality.
Over the last two decades, the ancient eastern Yogic view of the cosmos has had a renaissance in the hearts and minds of the modern world. Yoga and Ayurveda have had a phenomenal resurgence, as more and more people turn to them for their physical and spiritual wellbeing.
Read MoreIn Vedic Astrology the Moon is called manas, or mind, as it signifies our psychological make-up and the type of emotional filter through which we engage with life. The Moon also signifies our lunar impulses and our Mother. It’s house/sign placement and the planetary influences upon it in the horoscope shows where we are “at home” and where we keep going back to, often even if it no longer serves us well.
“I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream…he realizes that he’s gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic. ”Read More
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
My most unexpected meeting with Amma, the renowned Indian spiritual master known as the “Hugging Saint” leads me to believe what the Yoga Masters say is so true: “When the disciple is ready, the Guru appears.” In fact, Amma appeared in my life several years before I met her physical form.
Read MoreEach planet is a teaching, a door to self-knowledge – it has its own being and consciousness. Once we have understood the meaning of all the planets we can comprehend the entire field of possibilities of human life. Jupiter and Saturn are the two largest and the slowest moving planets and are polar opposites in their nature. Both the energies represented by them must be assimilated within us.
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