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So I changed it to an American server with http://www.gogreenhosting.com/. 108 dollars per year.

Now http://www.articlewisdom.com/ has 2733 articles, belonging to all categories and is developing into a major article database.

So Saturn is changing today. I will be relieved and hope my brethren will be relieved too.

Om Tat Sat

Saturn's Transit of Leo !

I am sorry I did not write anything on my web pages about the change in Saturn's transit.

Saturn moves over to Leo on 15th July and for Cancerians he moves to the second house. For Leo, he moves over to Janma or Lunar First. It should be counted like that.

We pray that this change is good for all people !

Saturn moves over to Leo on July 15

I will be happy indeed when Saturn moves over to Leo. Saturn in Janma or the Lunar First has really taken a heavy toll of mental peace and happiness, even though He has not touched the economic sphere. For Cancerians, this is a huge relief.

Better times can be expected for Pushya, Ashlesha and the last quarter of Punarvasu.

For the past six weeks when He retrograded in Cancer, Saturn has been devastating my health, time and mental peace. All sorts of problems visited me ( Nana Roga Shucham ). My mother expired. She used to say ( she knew Astrology ) that she will go during my Elarata Saturn and her prediction became true.

Lunar First Saturn took a heavy toll of my health. I was putting in 12 hours of work on the Net, as I have to manage five sites and 13 blogs. I have to ping feeds, submit urls daily. Also do Article Marketing and Zine Marketing and work without rest has taken its price !

I expect better health during Saturn's second transit, which begins from July 15 !

Saturn's transit of Cancer !

I was offline for one week as my mother expired on 5th June. She was 86.

She was born in the constellation of Hasta. Hasta is presided by the Moon and Saturn's transit through Cancer ( the sign of the Moon ) indicated her death. She was sick for the last 6 years.

She knew Astrology and told me that she will pass away during my Elarata Saturn ( I have two more years for Elarata Saturn to finish ). It was she who taught me Astrology from childhood onwards.
I am in mourning till the 16th of this month.

So astrologically, Saturn, the Mrithyukaraka or significator of death passing through the sign of the Birth Star lord was responsible for her moving over to the astral plane. May her soul rest in peace.

I was busy upgrading my four sites. Article Wisdom was upgraded to 100 MB and Eastrovedica to 75 MB.

www.articlewisdom.com is becoming a huge article database. Now it has 1344 articles ! We are trying to make it a content powerhouse

Good Reading!

Ayurveda Articles !

For lovers of Holistic Medicine, 49 articles on Holistic Medicine has been compiled at

http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/ayurveda3.htm

Back again !

You have to pardon me for not blogging frequently as I was busy upgrading my four sites. Eastrovedica was upgraded to 75 MB and Article Wisdom to 100 MB. All html files of Eastrovedica are now being converted to asps and I will have to do it. Html background effects were effected

We have compiled some excellent articles on Web Designing and Web Marketing at

http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/marketing.htm.

Upgradation of sites !

Now I am upgrading my sites, changing most of the html files into asp files. The background has been made static in many web pages, giving them a more professional look. Hits have increased as a result !

The Solar Trinity

The ancients took the Sun as the external symbol of the Absolute Self.

The Sun at dawn is the Creator Brahma

At midday he is the destroyer Shiva

At Sunset he is the Preserver Vishnu

He is the lord of all the three realms!

Brahmaswaroopa Udaye

Madhyahne Thu Sadasiva

Astha Kale Swayam Vishnu
Trailokyam Dinakarah

The Western mystics took his three manifestations as Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.

Manly P Hall writes in " The Secret Teachings of the Ages" thus

The philosophers of Greece and Egypt divided the life of the sun during the year into four parts; therefore they symbolized the Solar Man by four different figures. When He was born in the winter solstice, the Sun God was symbolized as a dependent infant who in some mysterious manner had managed to escape the Powers of Darkness seeking to destroy Him while He was still in the cradle of winter. The sun, being weak at this season of the year, had no golden rays (or locks of hair), but the survival of the light through the darkness of winter was symbolized by one tiny hair which alone adorned the head of the Celestial Child. (As the birth of the sun took place in Capricorn, it was often represented as being suckled by a goat.)

At the vernal equinox, the sun had grown to be a beautiful youth. His golden hair hung in ringlets on his shoulders and his light, as Schiller said, extended to all parts of infinity. At the summer solstice, the sun became a strong man, heavily bearded, who, in the prime of maturity, symbolized the fact that Nature at this period of the year is strongest and most fecund. At the autumnal equinox, the sun was pictured as an aged man, shuffling along with bended back and whitened locks into the oblivion of winter darkness. Thus, twelve months were assigned to the sun as the length of its life. During this period it circled the twelve signs of the zodiac in a magnificent triumphal march. When fall came, it entered, like Samson, into the house of Delilah (Virgo), where its rays were cut off and it lost its strength. In Masonry, the cruel winter months are symbolized by three murderers who sought to destroy the God of Light and Truth.
The coming of the sun was hailed with joy; the time of its departure was viewed as a period to be set aside for sorrow and unhappiness. This glorious, radiant orb of day, the true light "which lighteth every man who cometh into the world," the supreme benefactor, who raised all things from the dead, who fed the hungry multitudes, who stilled the tempest, who after dying rose again and restored all things to life--this Supreme Spirit of humanitarianism and philanthropy is known to Christendom as Christ, the Redeemer of worlds, the Only Begotten of The Father, the Word made Flesh, and the Hope of Glory.

Transcendental Alchemy

There are four types of Alchemy

1) Physical Alchemy

2) Psychological Alchemy

3) Biological Alchemy

4) Trascendental Alchemy

Alchemy is related to Astrology, as the Seven Revolving Heavens represents the metals seven

Gold - Sun

Silver - Moon

Jupiter - Tin

Venus - Copper

Saturn - Lead

Mars - Iron

Mercury - Mercury

Gold is the metal of the Sun. The Sun represents the Absolute Self, the Divine Solar Consciousness in World Mysticism.

Hence the purpose of Transcendental Alchemy is to transmute our earthly nature ( base metals ) into gold ( divine nature ). Meditation Triune is prescribed for this transmutation

Alchemy is effected by the Fourfold Yoga, via Wisdom, which involves the Discriminative Intellect, which discriminates between the Eternal and the Temporal. The Eternal is the Self, the Witness Consciousness in us. It is like a Mirror, which mirrors everything. It is filled with perceptions of the outer world. Hence it does not experience its own nature. Negating the Ureal and affirming the Real is genuine Wisdom.

Union via Action is renouncing all actions for the Ego and doing all actions in rhythm with Natural Law, for the Absolute Self.

Union via Psychic Control is controlling the Mind and transmuting it into a diviner mind.

Union via Love is the most important. Yogis says that they who do not love grow old quickly. You have heard of the adage " Judge not or ye be judged ". We should be Heart centred and should be non-judgemental !

Alchemy, Yoga & Astrology

Alchemy is a similar discipline as Yoga. The soul undergoes Putrefaction, Fermentation and Combustion and these are yogic processes. Alchemy is referred to as Labour of the Sun, of the Greater Central Sun. All mystic schools were Solar ! Astrology is also considered as Saura, of the Solar Path ! By Sol is the meant the Inner Sun, the Absolute Self, the Divine Solar Consciousness. This labour of the Sun is symbolised by the Eye of Ra, the Solar Symbol, the Eye of Divine Providence !

In the West, Alchemy was founded by the divine Hermes Trigmegistus. It was referred to as the Fire Religion, as alchemical principles were based on the Inner Divine Fire or the Kundalinic Fire, the fiery Serpent which lies coiled in humans. During its ascent, it burns away the mortal dross ! She lies coiled at the Muladhara, the Base Chakra. During Meditation, She rises and ascends to the Crown Chakra, giving the initiate the taste of Cosmic Consciousness.

Alchemy is derived from two words in Arabic, "al" meaning " the " and "Khem" meaning Egypt. Sir William Budge opined that Alchemy comes from the Egyptian word "Khemein", meaning black powder. This word became prominent in the Alexandrian Mystery Schools. Alexandria was then the philosophic capital of Egypt.

Purpose of Alchemy

Alchemy is the Science of Being, based on the values of the Infinite. It is the Divine Plan and the vehicle of the Ageless Wisdom. Masterminds of the ages wouldnt have indulged in it, if it had only a mundane aim.

In every man, there is a hunger to learn about superconscient truths. He is always in search of "the Philosopher's Stone" or " the Holy Grail ". Alchemy is referred to as " Path of Return", from Becoming to Being. Alchemy teaches Man the principles of regeneration and resurrection, laws of creation and transmutation; the laws that would assist Man to regain his "Paradise". Alchemy is the true Jnana Yoga; Union with the Divine is effected through the principles of

Sanctification

Purification

Putrefaction

Fermentation

Combustion

Regeneration

At-One-Ment

The ancient Mysteries called it the Regenerative Science par excellence !

Sacred Mathematics !

Astrology, we said in our earlier post, was the science of numbers in space and time. Geometry was number in space and Music the number in time.

The Universe is based on mathematical Law.

Galileo said

“Philosophy is written in this grand book --
I mean the universe --
Which stands continually open to our gaze.
But it cannot be understood
Unless one first learns to comprehend the language
And interpret the characters in which it is written.
It is written in the language of mathematics,
And its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures,
Without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.”

-- Galileo Galilei, Il Saggiatore (1623)

The Celestial Triangle is the triangle formed by Aswini, Magha and Moola, at 0 degrees, 120 degrees adn 240 degrees ( Trikonas ). Celestial Rectangles are called Kendras and it is represented in Astrology as 0, 90, 180 & 270 degrees. A conjunction is 0 degrees and Opposition 180 degrees.

We are happy to note that Astrology is emerging as one of the most important sciences in the Age of Aquarius. If the Piscean Age represented Faith, the New Aquarian Age represents Gnosis, Knowledge or Philosophia Prima . Knowledge alone can make you free !

Sixfold Analysis

My last posts were translations of certain Sanskrit verses, which I felt, was not translated before. You will have to pardon my diagression.

My astro site, www.eastrovedica.com, is doing well, with the site receiving more than 340 K hits. It has also gone up in Alexa rating and in the number of unique visitors.

We have been successful with the Sixfold Analysis, wherein a planet is declared weak or strong, on the basis of Shastiamsas or points got in Shadbala or the Sixfold Analysis

V I B A L A Planets in the Sixfold Strength

Knowest thou not that planets called Vibala

Are planets weak in the Sixfold Strength?

Cancellation Bhanga they cause of Raja Yoga

And are harmful in their nature; Learned One!

Know that Weak Planets cause Raja Yoga Bhanga

Exalted with other strengths is Sampoorna called;

Devoid of other strengths is Poorna; of medium strength

Below its average strength in Sixfold is Riktha; weak

Use these terms for correct prognostication O Noble One!

Twelve Arts & the Seven Liberal Arts in Indian & Western Learning

Western Philosophy speaks of the Seven Liberal Arts, made up of the Trivium of Logic, Rhetoric & Grammar and the Quadrivium of Arithmetic, Geometry, Music & Astronomy

Indian Philosophy speaks of the Twelve Arts, namely the Six Main Arts, the Shad Dharsana of Indian Philosophy , Yoga, Vedanta, Nyaya, Vaisesika, Sankhya and Poorva Mimamsa & the Six Minor Arts - Astrology, Kalpa, Definition ( Nirukta ), Phonetics ( Shiksha ), Grammar & Poetic Metres ( Chandas ).

We find in a comparitive study that these arts are more or less the same. When Western Learning says Astronomy, the Indians by Jyothisha meant both Astronomy & Astrology, as to them both were synonyms. Mathematical Astrology is based on the formulae of Astronomy. The calculation of the MC, for instance , is Tan K = Tan R / cos w, which is a formula of Astronomy. By Jyothisha they meant Indian Astro Physics, which includes Maths also ! So Arithmetic and Geometry of Western Learning is incorporated in Jyothisha

Logic is the same as Nyaya Shastra. Gautama was the sage who founded Nyaya. He defined Nyaya as a system to refute Non Vedic arguments and install vedic arguments. Nyaya, he said, is that which illumines all learning, the instrument of all actions, the refuge of all moral ethics & analysed completely for the purpose of learning !

Pradeepa Sarva Vidyanam

Upadhi Sarva Karmanam
Ashraya sarva dharmanam

Vidhyodhese pareekshithah

Music or Gandharva Veda was one of the 18 sciences which constitute Indian Philosophy. So we find that there are parallels in the Western and the Eastern Invisible Colleges !

Another Verse for Medical Astrology

In the body physiologic made of the Five Great Elements, the Five Revolving Heavens have their say.

Bones, skin, hair of the Earth Principle, signifies Mercury

Semen, urine of the Water Principle, Venus

Sleeping, tiredness of Fire Principle, Mars

Walking, jumping, respiration of Air Principle, Sautrn

And likes, dislikes of Ether Principle, Jove

This is the translation of a verse from Anushtatna Paddhati " Asthi thwak pisicham cha roma cha sira Bhoo ...... "

Basic Verses for Medical Astrology

Ayurveda postulates that Health is the equilibrium of Bile, Phlegm & Wind, known as Vata, Pitta & Kapha. The Nine Revolving Heavens represent the three humours. Here are the basic verses for the significations of the planets.

Also the correspondence between the Seven Tissue Elements and the Seven Planets!

This is a translation of 3 verses in Hora, beginning with " Madhu Pingala drik....."

Sun is of the nature of Pitta, with shape rotund

Luna is also roundish, of Vata & Kapha

And knowledgeable about Medicine too

With aspect cruel, youngish & haired

Mars is of the nature of Pitta humour

With an excellent sense of humour

Mercury partakes of all three humours !

Lazy, slow moving with hairs long

Saturn represents the humour Vata

Fat is ruled by mighty Jove

Semen is ruled by Venus veneris

Bones are represented by Sol
Blood by the fair Luna

Veins by the melancholy planet

Skin is ruled by scholar Mercury

And Bone Marrow is ruled by Mars!

The concept of Kalapurusha, Time Eternal

Astrology was taught to students as a story. Once upon a time, there was a King (Sun ). He had a Queen( Moon ) . With a son ( Mercury ) and a Defence Minister (Mars). Two ministers they had ( Venus & Jupiter, in the Government of the Almighty ) They had a messenger ( Saturn ) !

This is a poetic verse in Hora Sastra. He who lies coiled as the 360 degree Belt of the Heavens, the Zodiac, is the Absolute Self as Time Eternal, the Zodiacal Man, the Kalapurusha ! The Nine Revolving Heavens represent major qualities. Even His libido is represented by Venus, the fair planet that hearteneth to Love !

The Sun represents the Soul of the Cosmic Man

The Moon His Mind

Mars His physical Strength

Mercury represents the Power of His Word

Jove happiness, learning and Wisdom

Venus represents his libido

& Saturn His Sorrow

The Sun the King & Moon the Queen

Defence Minister is mighty Mars

Mercury the Prince knowledeable

The Wise Ministers Venus & Jove

And Saturn, he who gives messages !

Dane Rudhyar was one of the greatest astrologers of all time. He was born at March 23, 1895, rectified to 12:42 AM in Paris, France. He enriched Astrology with his research-oriented and intuitive mind

The only Visible Science, Astrology !

There are sciences main Six

In Indian Philosophy divine

Yoga, Sankhya, Vedanta,

Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Poorma

Mimamsas or world views called

Six auxiliary sciences there are

Astrology, Kalpa, Definition

Phonetics, Grammar & Iambics

These are the sciences Twelve !

These are sciences philosophic

Origins of the Mind Intuitive

The Seers fused Reason with Intuition

And divined the subatomic levels !

All sciences philosophic have disappeared
Controversial most of them are
Astrology is the visible Science

( As you can see planets with telescope )
With Sun & Moon as witnesses celestial !


This is a translation of a poetic verse in Prasna Anushtana Paddhathi. The Seers, after divining the subtle states of Energy and Matter, presented them in poetic verses. Poetry is divine, it is the centre and circumference of all learning !

Zodiacal Number System : The Total Longitude Method

If the Longitude Total falls in constellations negative
Not fully enjoyed will be the House Significations
If - on the other hand - positivity is more than minus
All the significations of the House will fully enjoyed

Negative will be the house indications if
Said Longitude falls in Signs & Stars negative!
Samhara- Durithamsaka- Gandanda- Ushna- Visha
Dhooma stars - Vishti - 6 & 8th lords Sign!
Signs rising backwards -Adhomukha Signs-Riktha
Downtide Signs -Karanas & functional malefics!

Positive be the house indications O scholar if
Said Longitude falls in Stars & Signs Positive!
Pranamsa - Dehamsa - Srishti - Piyusha - Oordhwa
Benefic aspects -benign- Uptide-Trines & angles !

Varaha Mihira, father of Asian Astronomy & Astrology

Varaha Mihira, was the father of Asian Astronomy, astrology, arts & architecture. He was one of the most celebrated scientise who strode like a colossus on the intellectual scene, and contributed to almost all branches of arts and sciences. Thus, Encyclopedia Britannica notes, "Varāhamihira of the Gupta age was a profound scholar of all the sciences and arts, from botany to astronomy and from military science to civil engineering." (Enc.Brit., "Education, History of," vol.18, p.4, 1990 ed.) He wrote three master treatises on the three branches of Astro Physics - Astronomy, Astrology & Samhita.

His major work in Astronomy is the Pancha Siddantika ( "Five Astronomical Treatises" )
In Astrology, the Brihat Jataka
In Samhita, the Brihat Samhita

His most famous work is the treatise on the Five Astronomical Treatises. Previously five major astronomical works held absolute sway on the astronomical scene. The Soorya Siddhanta by the Seer Soorya, the Romasa Siddhanta by the Seer Romasa, the Paulasa Siddhanta by the Seer Paulasa, Vasishta Siddhanta by Vasishta, and Paitamaha Siddhanta by the Seer Pitamaha were the prevailing astronomical texts. His genius summarised the quintessence of all these five as the Five Astronmical Treatises, the Pancha Siddhantika.

The Indian Government recognised his genius and a mural painting adorns the Parliament House at Delhi. This painting includes him along with another great astronomer, Aryabhata

He was the most brilliant amongst the Nem Gems of the court of the King Vikramaditya

The Master of Ayurveda, Dhanvantari

Poets Khapana, Amarasingha , Pangu

Vetala, Bhatta, Ghatakarpara

All graced the King Vikramaditya's court !

And of course the Master Poet, Kalidasa

Varaha Mihira was the Master of Astrology

Of legendary fame and the most brilliant

Was a cut above the rest and led the rest !

Dhanvantari Kshapanamaranigha Pangur

Vetalabhatta ghatakarpara Kalidasa
Khytho Varahamihiro Nripathe Sabhayam
Ratnani Vai Vararuchir nava vikramasya

He was a servant of the Absolute Self ( Sun )

Graced was he by the boons of the Inmost Sun !

He wrote summaries about the treatises

And compiled the magnificent Hora ( Astrology ) !

Cheiro, the Master Diviner !

Count Louis Hamon, alias Cheiro, is the most famous amongt palmists. ( 1866-1936 )

He had a wide following of famous European and American clients like Mark Twain, Sarah Bernhardt, Mata Hari, Oscar Wilde, Grover Cleveland, Thomas Edison, the Prince of Wales, General Kitchener, William Gladstone, Bernard Shaw and Joseph Chamberlain.
He spoke of the Hindu race and the remarkable sciences for foretelling future, (The Bhavishya Purana) which the Hindus, have, as prophetic sciences:

“To consider the origin of this science, we must take our thoughts back to the earliest days of the world’s history, and further more to the consideration of a people the oldest of all, yet one that has survived, and who are today as characteristic and as full of individuality as they were when thousands of years ago the first records of history were written.

I allude to those children of the East, the Hindus, a people whose philosophy and wisdom are every day being more and more revived.”

“Looking back to the earliest days of the history of the known world, we find that the first linguistic records belong to the people under consideration, and date back to that far distant cycle of time known as the Aryan civilization. Beyond history we cannot go; but the monuments and cave temples of India, according to the testimony of archaeologists, all point to a time so far beyond the scant history at our disposal, that in the examination of such matters our greatest knowledge is dwarfed into infantile nothingness – our age and era are but the swaddling clothes of the child; our manhood that of the infant in the arms of the eternity of time.”

“Long before Rome or Greece or Israel was even heard of, the mountains of India point back to an age, of learning beyond, and still beyond. From the astronomical calculations that the figures in their temples represent, it has been estimated that the Hindu understood the Precession of the Equinoxes centuries before the Christian Era."

(source: Hinduism in The Space Age - By E. Vedavyas p. 233-235).

In a book called You and Your Hand by the late Count Louis Hamon, known better as Cheiro, this statement is found:

"people who in their ignorance disdain the wisdom of ancient races forget that the great past of India contained secrets of life and philosophy that following civilizations could not controvert, but were forced to accept. For instance, it has been demonstrated that the ancient Hindus understood the precession of the equinoxes and made the calculation that it [a complete cycle] took place once in every 25,870 years. The observation and mathematical precision necessary to establish such a theory has been the wonder and admiration of modern astronomers. They, with their modern knowledge and up-to-date instruments, are still quarrelling among themselves as to whether the precession, the most important feature in astronomy, takes place every 25,870 years or every 24,500 years. The majority believe that the Hindus made no mistakes, but how they arrived at such a calculation is as great a mystery as the origin of life itself."

(source: Antiquity of Indian Astrology).