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This Amavasya takes place in the constellation of UttaraAshada (UA) in Sagittarius (Sag). UA bridges Sag to Capricorn (Cap). Ruled by Vishvadevas, this nakshatra is characterized by its ambitious nature & also by a delayed or later (but definite) victory brought about by steadfast perseverance. Mythological story of Daksha’s several failed attempts to procreate &...

Integrating the eclipse in Scorpio & the phenomenal Sat-Jup conjunction in Capricorn, we have the Full Moon in the opposite section of sky, in sidereal Gemini, Ardra nakshatra. This Full Moon is also called the Long Night Moon or Cold Moon as the Moon will be up in the sky for total of 15 hours...

The great conjunction between Saturn and Jupiter is happening right now in sidereal Capricorn and will be exact on December 21st, 2020, winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, summer in the southern. Jupiter & Saturn come together every 20 years, the last time being in sidereal Taurus in 2000. So why is this conjunction called...

After Ketu, the south node of the moon moved into sidereal Scorpio in late September, 2020, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel & Andrea Ghez for their discovery of black holes. At the center of black holes lies a singularity where all known laws of nature cease to exist...

New Moon in Scorpio is also the Solar Eclipse with the Sun and Moon joined Ketu, the south node of the moon in Jyestha nakshatra in Scorpio, along with Mercury – Directly opposite Rahu in Taurus. Scorpio is a feminine sign, fixed water that compels all the emotional and intangible energies to be internalized. Taking...

New Moon in Libra is celebrated as Diwali / Deepavali / Deepotsav, the festival of lights. Like most Indian festivals, Diwali is metaphysically celebrated based on the relationship between the Sun & the Moon. Sun represents the soul or the paramatman – the non-changing, non-dual self, & Moon represents the Jivataman or the mind –...

October 17th, 2020 marks the beginning of 9 day festival worshiping the different forms of the Shakti culminating in Dussherra or VijayaDashami. Navratri starts on the first day (first tithi, pratipada) after the new moon in sidereal Virgo, in the month of Ashvin. Through the 9 days, the evolving forms of Goddess are worshiped, namely,...

The third & final Mercury retrograde (MeR) of 2020 is happening in sidereal Libra as I write this. So, let’s burst some myths about MeR . The ‘apparent’ retrograde motion of Mercury is astronomical created by an optical illusion when observed from Earth. Einstein’s theory on special relativity explains this. I broke this down in...

I got inspired to do this just because Mercury (ideas and theories) is right now retrograde in Libra (relativity) and earlier in October the Nobel Prize in physics was given to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel & Andrea Ghez for their work on black holes based on Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. Classical theory of relativity...