Charts & Techniques
Combustion (Asta): The Degrees at Which a Graha Stops Being Readable
Asta is about visibility. The orb differs for every graha, changes again for retrograde Mercury and Venus, and explains a lot of underdelive
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The ātmakāraka is decided by degree alone. Sign, house, exaltation and strength play no part in the calculation, which makes it unlike almos
Read →Charts & TechniquesĀrūḍha Lagna: The Difference Between Who You Are and How You Land
How to compute the ārūḍha lagna, why the exception rule exists, and the arithmetic proving it can only ever fall in six of the twelve houses
Read →Charts & TechniquesWhy the Sun Is Never Actually Retrograde (And What People Usually Mean When They Search This)
The Sun is never retrograde and neither is the Moon. Here is the real astronomy and Jyotisha reasoning behind why, and what people actually
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