What is
Vedic astrology?
An Introduction to Jyotish
You may have come across astrology before, yet still found yourself wanting to understand why your life has unfolded as it has.
Jyotish offers a way to explore that question.
A chart begins
with the sky.
The conversation
begins with you.
Using your birth date, time, and place, an astrologer creates a chart of the sky at the moment you were born.
Within Jyotish, that chart is interpreted through the understanding of karma: the patterns that shape experience, and the seasons in which different parts of life come into focus.
01 · The birth chart
A map to
read with care.
Your chart gives us a place to explore the questions you bring about work, relationships, purpose, and the patterns you recognise in your life.
No single placement tells the whole story. The chart is considered as a whole, alongside the life you are actually living.
Think of it as a map: something to help you understand the terrain, while leaving room for how you choose to meet it.
02 · Timing
Why this question?
Why now?
Some questions return.
Others arrive with a new season.
Jyotish looks at both the patterns in your birth chart and when different themes may become more prominent.
One of its tools is the dasha: a planetary period used to interpret changing chapters across a lifetime.
In a reading, we consider these periods in relation to your chart and your questions, making room to understand the season you are moving through.
03 · Zodiac
“Why is my
sign different?”
If you have seen both a Western and a Vedic chart, you may have noticed that some planetary signs differ. The two systems usually begin from different reference points.
The sidereal zodiac
If you have seen both a Western and a Vedic chart, you may have noticed that some planetary signs differ. The two systems usually begin from different reference points.
The tropical zodiac
Used in most Western astrology, it begins at the March equinox and follows the seasonal cycle.
A different sign is a starting point for understanding the system. Your whole chart holds far more than your Sun sign alone.
A living tradition.
A continuing study.
Knowledge carried forward
Jyotish belongs to an Indian tradition of knowledge passed from teacher to student through lineages.
My study continues through direct teaching with Pt. Sanjay Rath. That relationship with the teaching remains at the heart of my work.
