20 results for “tradition”
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Ritual
Performing a Ritual on Someone's Behalf
Can a puja be performed for you while you are in London or Toronto? What the tradition says about proxy rites, and how to take part from afar.
Pandit Vikram Aditya Singh · 3 min
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Decision Guidance
Questions to Ask Any Astrologer
Which tradition, which system, how they handle uncertainty and what they will not do. Seven questions that tell you a great deal about an astrologer.
Jyotish Meenal Joshi · 3 min
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Family
Bringing Elders and the Next Generation Together Around Ritual
Grandparents hold the knowledge; grandchildren hold the questions. How shared ritual can become a place where generations actually meet.
MyAstro7 Editorial · 3 min
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Ritual
Navagraha Shanti: What It Addresses
Navagraha Shanti is a ritual of balance offered to the nine planetary deities. What it involves, when it is traditionally performed, and what it cannot promise.
Acharya Vishwanath Iyer · 3 min
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Muhurta
Signing Contracts: A Muhurta Checklist
Before you sign a lease, a partnership deed or a large purchase agreement, these are the traditional timing checks worth knowing, and their limits.
Pandit Krishnamurthy Rao · 3 min
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Muhurta
Kharmas and Chaturmas: Seasons of Waiting
Two recurring periods pause weddings and housewarmings in many families. What each is, when it falls, and why the tradition treats waiting as meaningful.
Pandit Rajendra Prasad Mishra · 3 min
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Family
Planning a Wedding Across Two Family Traditions
A Punjabi groom, a Tamil bride, two sets of elders and one muhurat. How families can honour both traditions without turning the wedding into a contest.
Jyotish Nitin Bhargava · 3 min
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Decision Guidance
Making Decisions During Difficult Periods
Sade sati, a hard dasha or simply a bad year: what the tradition actually advises about acting under strain, and why it is rarely 'do nothing'.
Jyotish Harish Chandra Pandey · 3 min
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Vedic Knowledge
The Gayatri Mantra: Meaning and Practice
Twenty-four syllables asking for one thing: that our understanding be illumined. A careful reading of the Gayatri, and how it is traditionally practised.
Pandit Shivkumar Iyer · 3 min
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Vedic Knowledge
The Guru–Shishya Tradition
For three thousand years the Vedas were carried in memory, from one teacher to one student. What that relationship was, and what it was never meant to be.
Pandit Shivkumar Iyer · 3 min
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Vedic Knowledge
Karma Without Fatalism
Karma is often heard as a sentence already passed. The tradition describes it very differently: as action, and as the freedom to act well now.
Jyotish Kavita Sharma · 3 min
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Ritual
Griha Pravesh: The Ceremony, Step by Step
Entering a new home is traditionally marked with care: a chosen muhurat, a kalash at the threshold, milk boiled in the kitchen. The ceremony, step by step.
Pandit Arvind Mehta · 3 min