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Here are two more Jyotish programs that are free to download. Mudgala Hora http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b254/olusanya/mudgalascreenshot.jpg This software is released for the purpose of enabling additional research into Jyotisha. It is written entirely in C# (managed code), and links with the hi...

There are a simple method to give right time about the Nishechan,First accurate the Lagana,then think about the Sun,then think about the lord of fifth,if fifth in the progressive degree of the star,and Mars,Saturn,or any retrograde Star not hiting to that,there are sure Nisechan. Calcualtion method...

Pranaam, I would appreciate any help that members may give me in regards to calculating the Nisheka Lagna according to Parashara's instructions in chap. 4 of the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra. O excellent of the sages, explained now is a step to arrive at the Nisheka Lagna when the natal ascendant i...

let me repeat something: Jyotish as given in classics is not complete. Classics, bar none, sound like recipe books, a glossary of rules some organized, others haphazard. Very rarely is it indicated what to do with those rules. Some modern writers like Rao, Raman, Bepin Behari, Chowdhry, Krishnamurt...

My first I Ching book was Richard Wilhelm's translation, however my favorite I Ching reference is "The Book of Unchanging Truth" by Hua Ching Ni, a living Taoist master. It is extremely informative, with very clear judgements of the hexagrams.

The book that you are currently reading, very early on specifically mentions the use of Sayana in a couple of calculations (you must have gone way past those chapters if you are reading it from cover to cover as one must). Since it is mentioned by name, it indicates to me that they were aware of bo...

while studying a chart, it always came down to believing yourself, listening to your atman and saying what you felt like, but then thats hardly following the rules laid down by our rishis, now is it? Thank you  Sahil for your thoughtful response. I think you may be on the right track. I am fai...

While doing research on the use of geocentric positions as opposed to topocentric positions in Vedic astrology I happened upon this article by Avtar Krishen Kaul aryasamaj.org/eng_art/do_celebrate_in_time.htm in which he argues that Vedic astrology cannot be based upon the Nirayana zodiac and is, ac...

Incidentally, this parallel matter of true vs mean nodes and their use in jyotish! Only at the point of eclipse can one map the true position of nodes because that is the moment when the imaginary mathematical points that nodes are (point of crossing of the lunar and solar/earth orbits) truly obser...

Paz, Shalom, Salaam, Shanti... Peace!

My name is Olusanya and I'm checking in from the Pocono mountains in PA. I'm glad to be here, this board seems to be full of good people.