Every astrology practitioner has heard these questions so many times: Is my chart good or bad? Is this planet good or bad for me? And although it’s natural for the mind to try to look at life through the polarities of black and white, the reality is usually way more complex than that—because human life is, too.
Every student learns in the first week that odd signs are masculine and even signs feminine. Then the lesson stops. It is treated as a label, filed away, and never used again. That is where a great deal of astrology quietly goes missing.
Every while and then we hear that this or that planet goes retrograde. But what does it mean in practice?
The movement of Budha or Mercury in Vedic Astrology, with its 116-day synodic cycle of speeding up, slowing down, and going retrograde, is a reflection of the cyclical rhythm of our intellect: quickening, speaking, understanding, slowing, revising, and being born again. And much like Budha’s parent, the Moon, Mercury, too, goes through his own phases.
When the different planets transit through your birth chart they look upwards, downwards or sideways. Do you know that their gaze can turn more harmful or benevolent depending on the nakshatra they currently move through as seen from your natal Moon?
Did you know that four most important nakshatras in your birth chart are calculated from the golden angle – a pattern of harmonious growth found everywhere in nature?
“As it is in the outer world, so it is in the body; as it is in the body, so it is in the consciousness.”
– Kalachakra Tantra 1.6
“The planets that move in the sky at great distances from one another, when they appear to approach each other (due to their proximity in longitude), it is called Yuddha (War) by the shastras, because they appear to be fighting.”
– Brihat Samhita
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