Agni, Your Digestive Fire

Agni, Your Digestive Fire

Agni is known in Ayurveda as the internal digestive fire, as well as the deity of fire. The devotion to Agni is not nature-worship, but a recognition of the awe inspiring power that softens metal, evaporates water, and may bring life or death. Fire is known across the...
Weekly Vedic Astrology Forecast, 11.2–11.9.20

Weekly Vedic Astrology Forecast, 11.2–11.9.20

Moon in Rohini, Nov. 2nd – 3rd Amidst the dust kicked up as our political wheel makes another rotation and a (visible) leader is elected, the Moon will be gracefully swinging through it’s sign of exaltation, and mulatrikona, Taurus. This is a very lunar friendly...
Ayurveda and Jyotish

Ayurveda and Jyotish

The purpose of the Vedic sciences is to promote Self-realization. Known as sister sciences, Ayurveda and Jyotish (Vedic astrology) have been studied as parallel practices since their conception. Ayurveda translates into “knowledge of life,” and Jyotish...
Weekly Vedic Astrology Forecast (10.26–11.2.20)

Weekly Vedic Astrology Forecast (10.26–11.2.20)

October 26th, retrograde Mercury conjunct Sun in Libra The turbulence and volatile mindedness are coming to a head as Mercury’s retrograde dance rejoins the Sun in Libra. Swati is the asterism of this conjunction, and “Swati means ‘the sword,’...
The Three Gunas

The Three Gunas

The concept of “The Three Gunas” comes from the Bhagavad-Gita (a Hindu scripture that discusses the nature of reality and consciousness). It states that there are three gunas, or “threads,” that hold this world together. They weave through...