THE MYASTRO7 JOURNAL

Serious writing on Vedic practice.

Muhurta, jyotish, ritual and decision-making — explained plainly, by people who practise it.

105 essays · six subjects · written by named practitioners

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
Family

Pregnancy Rituals: Seemantham and Godh Bharai

From the Tamil seemantham to the North Indian godh bharai, pregnancy rituals bless mother and child. What they involve, and what they do not replace.

Acharya Vishwanath Iyer · 3 min
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
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
Muhurta

Akshaya Tritiya and the Idea of a Self-Auspicious Day

Akshaya Tritiya is called abujh, a day that needs no muhurta. What that idea means, where it comes from and how much it really covers.

MyAstro7 Editorial · 3 min
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
Muhurta

Vehicle and Property Purchases: Timing Considerations

Why Pushya, Dhanteras and fixed nakshatras come up whenever Indian families buy a car or a flat, and what a purchase muhurta does and does not do.

Jyotish Harish Chandra Pandey · 3 min
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
Decision Guidance

Red Flags: Recognising Fear-Based Astrology

Urgent warnings, expensive cures and threats to your family are not part of the tradition. How to spot astrology that works on fear.

MyAstro7 Editorial · 3 min
Ritual

Mundan: The First Haircut

Why families shave a child's first hair, when it is traditionally done, and what the ceremony is really asking for on the child's behalf.

Pandit Mahesh Joshi · 3 min
Decision Guidance

Confidentiality and Your Birth Data

Your date, time and place of birth reveal more than you might think. Here is how to share them carefully, and what a good practitioner does with them.

MyAstro7 Editorial · 3 min
Jyotish

Saturn's Sade Sati, Calmly

Seven and a half years of Saturn sounds alarming. Read closely, Sade Sati is a period of restructuring, not a sentence, and it rewards patience over panic.

Jyotish Kavita Sharma · 4 min

Read by subject

Muhurta 18 Timing, and what it can and cannot do. Jyotish 18 Reading a chart, without the jargon. Ritual 18 What happens, and why it is done that way. Vedic Knowledge 17 The ideas underneath the practice. Decision Guidance 18 Using guidance well — and knowing its limits. Family 16 Rituals and timing across generations.