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Jyotish
Reading a chart, without the jargon.
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Jyotish
Retrograde Planets in Vedic Astrology
No planet actually moves backwards. What retrograde motion is, how jyotish interprets a vakri graha in the birth chart, and why it is not a bad omen.
MyAstro7 Editorial · 3 min
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Jyotish
Transits (Gochar) and What They Can Tell You
Every month brings a headline about a planet changing sign. How transits, gochar, are properly read, and why they matter less than your own dasha.
Jyotish Radhika Iyengar · 3 min
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Jyotish
Career Questions in a Chart
Jyotish cannot pick your profession for you, but it can describe aptitudes, working temperament and timing. How career questions are approached in a chart.
Jyotish Meenal Joshi · 3 min
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Jyotish
Dashas: How Vedic Astrology Thinks About Time
The Vimshottari dasha divides life into planetary periods. How the system is calculated, what it describes, and why it is read with care rather than as a forecast.
Jyotish Anand Vyas · 3 min
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Jyotish
Understanding a Vedic Birth Chart, Without the Jargon
The handful of concepts that make a birth-chart reading legible, explained plainly.
Jyotish Radhika Iyengar · 1 min
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Jyotish
Mangal Dosha: What It Is and What It Isn't
Mangal Dosha has postponed more weddings than it should. A clear look at how it is calculated, how often it cancels, and why it is not a verdict on a marriage.
Jyotish Nitin Bhargava · 3 min
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Jyotish
Navamsa: The Chart Within the Chart
The navamsa divides every sign into nine and is often called the fruit of the birth chart. What it shows about marriage, maturity and planetary strength.
Jyotish Anand Vyas · 3 min
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Jyotish
What a Good Jyotishi Will Not Tell You
The surest sign of a careful astrologer is often what they decline to say. Seven things a responsible jyotishi will not tell you, and why that matters.
MyAstro7 Editorial · 3 min
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Jyotish
Lagna: Why Your Rising Sign Matters More Than Your Sun Sign
Newspaper horoscopes use the Sun sign. Vedic astrology starts from the lagna, which changes every two hours. Why that difference matters, and why birth time is key.
Jyotish Meenal Joshi · 3 min
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Jyotish
Sidereal and Tropical: Why Your Sign May Differ
If a magazine calls you a Leo and your kundali says Cancer, neither is a mistake. The difference comes from how each system measures the starting point of the zodiac.
MyAstro7 Editorial · 3 min
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Jyotish
The Moon Sign and Emotional Temperament
In jyotish your rashi is your Moon sign, not your Sun sign. What the Moon describes about the mind and feelings, and how to use that knowledge kindly.
Jyotish Kavita Sharma · 3 min
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Jyotish
Kundali Matching: Beyond the 36 Gunas
A score out of 36 is where kundali matching begins, not where it ends. What the ashtakoota points measure, and what a careful matching also looks at.
Jyotish Nitin Bhargava · 3 min