The Jyotiṣa Journal — Karma Jyotisha

Amavasya 2027: Every New Moon Date and Time

Amavasya, the new moon night, comes around once every lunar month and quietly shapes a lot of what Hindus plan their calendars around, from

A friend's mother-in-law once sent over a plastic tub of ghewar and green bangles two days before I even knew Teej season had started. That

I used to assume Baisakhi and Vishu were unrelated regional festivals that just happened to fall around the same week. They're actually the

A colleague from Delhi and one from Pune once argued, entirely good-naturedly, about which date Vat Savitri actually fell on that year. Neit

I once asked why a fast named after an "abduction" is one of the most popular vrats for married women in North India. The answer turned out

A colleague once told me his family drives back to their ancestral village every single year for a specific 15-day window, no matter what el

A relative once spent longer picking a date for her son's first haircut than she did picking his school. That sounded excessive until I actu

A relative once told me she'd rather do a full week of ordinary fasting than one day of Nirjala Ekadashi. That struck me as an odd trade unt

A Malayali colleague once brought a box of jackfruit and gold-coin-shaped sweets to the office in mid-April and called it "the first thing I

A friend's wedding card once had a line I hadn't seen before: "post Devutthana." I assumed it was a venue reference until her mother explain

My sister still keeps a specific steel thali, unused the rest of the year, just for Bhai Dooj tilak. When I asked why not just use any plate

Every Sawan, my mother-in-law puts out a small bowl of milk near the tulsi plant on a specific Friday or Sunday, and it took me two years of