The Jyotiṣa Journal — Karma Jyotisha

Pongal 2027: Date, and the Four Days That Make Up the Festival

A Tamil friend once corrected me for calling Pongal a one-day festival. It is actually a four-day harvest festival, and the dish called Pong

A Maharashtrian colleague once pointed out that her New Year and her Kannada and Telugu friends' New Year always fall on the same day, and a

A jeweller once explained to me why his shop's busiest day of the year needs no astrologer's approval, unlike a wedding date or a housewarmi

A friend from Kolkata once told me the real test of a Durga Puja calendar is whether it gets Saptami and Ashtami right, because those two da

Someone once told me they thought Basant Panchami and Saraswati Puja were rival festivals competing for the same week, because their local c

A reader once asked why their calendar app showed Saraswati Puja twice in the same year, months apart, and whether one of them was a mistake

Most Hindu calendar pages online are a wall of dates dumped in one table, no explanation of why Diwali lands on a new moon or why Holi and…

Classical transit results are defined as houses counted from the janma rāśi. Reading them from the lagna measures from the wrong point.

The 10th house is the hardest house in the chart to place, and celebrity Saturn lists almost never say which house convention produced the c

All twelve houses for all twelve lagnas, with the six yogakāraka cases, the māraka and bādhaka rule, and why no planet is a malefic on its o

Natural malefic and functional malefic are two different categories. Saturn is a natural malefic and the single best graha for a Taurus or L

Celebrity lists for this placement rest on unverified birth times, a house system choice and circular rectification. Here is what the record