About Planets and Signs-How to understand Lagna and Janma Rasi

Planets and Signs The planets are what move relative to the stars. The stars are in groups of 30 degrees, which constitute what we call the signs. This places the planets in a sign. The planets are the energy, the signs are the qualities of how the energy will be expressed. Here is an analogy; The planets are a ray of light, and the signs are like a colored glass. The planets will take on ...Continue Reading...

Planetary Rangolis to please the Navagrahas

Rangolis are wonderfully neat and meaningful geometric designs that are drawn in courtyards and altars before a home each morning by the women of the household. Rangoli is an ancient ephemeral art form practiced throughout India. Designs are drawn onto the ground, usually in chalk or colored powder and embellished with sand, rice, candles or flower petals. It is called as kolam, mandana, alpana, ...Continue Reading...

Swayamvara Parvati Yantra- to get married, lead a happy marital life, peace and harmony in marriage

Swayamvara Parvati Homa and Yantra Goddess Parvati is one of the many forms of Shakti, the powerful feminine energy of the universe.  She is the Goddess of Love and devotion. She is an auspicious goddess and the divine consort of Lord Shiva and represents virtue, skill, fertility, marital felicity, asceticism and power as per the Hindu mythology. Given below is a popular Parvati Mantra or ...Continue Reading...

Rahu(North Node of the Moon) Mahadasha:18 years period of success, greater heights, foreign travels and conflicts

Rahu Dasha Mahadasa in Vedic Astrology After the Shukra Mahadasha (20 years)  and Sani Mahadasha (19 years), the Rahu Mahadasha is eighteen years long in Vimshottari dasa system in Vedic Astrology. Rahu or the North Node of the Moon, the chaya graha-shadowy planets, rules three Nakshatras Aridra, Swati and Satabhisha and when Moon is any of these nakshatra at birth, Rahu is the starting ...Continue Reading...

The Navagraha placement for the Nine planets- How are the 9 planets postioned in a temple

Navagraha placement in various temples and their importance In the Hindu Mythology, the Navagrahas have an exalted position in a persons life as they exert a great influence and it is said that the proper worship of these 9 planets can greatly tone down their malefic influence and thus grant peace and prosperity in a persons life. The entire place where the Navagraha is installed in a temple is a ...Continue Reading...

Hessonite-Gomed the Gem of the North Node-Rahu- powers and benefits

The Gem of Rahu- Gomed/Hessonite:Gomedh is the Jyotish gem related to Rahu (Moon's ascending node), which is mainly an Hessonite- Gomed elemental and instinctual entity. When badly positioned, this "shadow planet" is characterized by insatiable worldly recognitions and desires together with sense gratification. Wearing a Gomedh is said to bring success, wealth and notoriety in society, ...Continue Reading...

What are the powers of Gemstones? Benefits of wearing birth stones and recommendations

Vedic Astrology is the diagnosing method to find out the cause for such unexplained problems and one’s horoscope is the instrument for knowing it. A Horoscope is the Vedic Astrologer's diagram of relative positions of planets. And remember that each Horoscope is unique as is each individual. Vedic Astrology is not for any particular religion, rather it  is for the human being. The rationale ...Continue Reading...

How does Sun- Surya and Rahu affect a natives married life | How to match horoscopes for marriage

It is  a well known principle of astrology  that Mars- Chevvai- Mangalik dosha is said to arise when Mars occupies the prohibited house namely 1st, the 2nd, the 4th, the 7th, 8th and the 12th because of the fact the Mars would be afflicting these houses either by its location in or aspect on them. The lagna stands for self or individuality from where Mars will aspect the 7th (Marriage) and the ...Continue Reading...

Marriage and gemstone to wear- for a happy married life and marital success

In the modern era, many marriages are problematic and troublesome. There are obstacles in the settlement of a few marriages due to the adverse planetary influences. it is believed taht Venus is signifactor of marriage for males  whereas Mars and Sun signify marriage for females. Now if these basic planets are afflicted due to negative aspect, placement or conjunction, the marriages will be ...Continue Reading...

How to worship Rahu or Raghu- Northern Node of the Moon-shadowy planet-chaya graha

Rahu/Raghu of the Northern point of the Moon also known as the “Chayya Graha” or shadowy planet is considered a worldly malefic and as it signifies anything sudden such an accident, or a lottery gain. He indicates secrecy, the diplomatic services, messengers, greed, proficiency in a foreign language, foreign or alien culture, obsessive nature, mass tragedies, and domestic marital ...Continue Reading...