With this astrological hypothesis, we take you on a long journey starting with the creation of the Moon billions of years ago. This bright object, with waning and waxing phases, has fascinated all, perhaps every living creature from ancient times. Humankind could visit it only now- 42 years ago, after billions of years of evaluation from the earth. It was described by the first visitors as a desert land with nothing to greet them. The discovery of ice on the Moon by an Indian mission long after, last year, was termed as the biggest discovery of the century.

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If you were all Sun, you would have been a pure-atma. Perhaps you were not meant to be so.

Is all that is happening willed by God? Even minor shifts and changes, the thoughts that come to our mind, and the promptings that make us act? Do we have in-built governors that control us in accordance with God’s scheme? The answers to these questions that mankind perennially seeks, if they ever reach man, will perhaps be through an understanding of the Sun and the planets orbiting it.

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The march towards gains and success, seen mainly from the 11^th house of a horoscope, seems inexorable. Not wary of the junctions ahead and the final dead end, the kaliyuga urbanite keeps toiling for the futile. He ignores the fact that the growth and success can be healthy only with balance.  The cruel fact is that, though we see disasters happening, we do not follow the path shown by junctions and signals. In our quest of gains and success, we do not factor in our efforts and switch off the moral compass. So we end up gaining and succeeding by compromising our health and morality.

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Thoughts in your mind are of small consequence but what you do matters! Your deeds build your image and destroy it too. Opinions about you that people carry are formed from the deeds they know. It is the image alone that matters in kaliyuga. The stock market zooms and crashes on goodwill and reputations. Some people, in spite of base acts and unacceptable deeds, get away without their image getting tarnished, but some get a bad name and are humiliated even when they deserve much better. Why?

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It was an earthquake that brought a turnaround for the man who was born with a mission.  The mission was noble and destiny perhaps was giving a helping hand- creating opportunities, showing the path. The man in this case was Dr.S.K.Joshi, at present Additional Medical Superintendent and Reader/Head of the Department of Ayurvedic Surgery in the Government Ayurvedic College and Hospital in the old and renowned Ayurvedic institution of Gurukul Kangri, Haridwar.  He has served here for nearly two decades, established himself in his limited orbit as the man who works miracles. He does not wish to extend his orbit as he has no desire for money or publicity. He has cured many incurable diseases, not by surgery, but simply by the touch of his hand.

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Big bangs and explosions often accompany change. In astrology we see them from the 8^th house. Birth and death are dramatic events in an individual’s eternal life. They cannot be experienced and recalled except perhaps through past life regression methods which in any case give only faded reflections. Nevertheless, we have enough evidence to believe in reincarnation. To a Vedic astrologer this evidence is easier to relate to with time and maturity. Thus, astrology can also be defined as a science delivering subtle messages of eternal truth. All you need to do is to remain in touch.  And the messages will keep coming!

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Next to the 10^th, the house of karmas, the 7^th is the most challenging house in today’s context. Here’s why. Our basic instincts and sensuality attract us to many opposites, including, most importantly, the opposite sex. This natural stirring of love and passion, brings joy, often changes lives in fundamental ways.

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You may not run the 100 meter sprint. But you are competing. Try tracing a moment when you are not in competition? As a child, even before you were able to walk you were hit by a psychological phenomena-`sibling rivalry’.You compete with your siblings for more attention from your parents. You envy your friend’s new dress or his toy and you want it for yourself, often at any cost. The competition in you is always active. It never seizes even for a moment. It goes deeper and deeper into the subconscious mind. And you are condemned to compete in your youth, adulthood and even in your twilight years.

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The consequences of an action that takes a few seconds to complete could impact you after a thousand years. Hard to swallow! But the mechanism of　 human action is such that the results could remain suspended for years and may manifest themselves after a millennium. Hence, whether you believe in reincarnation or not, think before you act. This debate on the moral consequences of our actions surely will lead us to a better understanding of our own self and of natural and karmic justice.

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Reflect on this: A hit on the heart or a blow to a fragile home leave many　vibrations ! Why? This letter takes you to the core of a horoscope – the 4^th house that governs the heart and happiness. Did you know that at the end of each of the first two phases of life governed, respectively by the first to fourth house and the fifth to eighth, alarms ring for a lifestyle overhaul? These alarms gear you up for the periodical reforms. They reveal that the actions at the appropriate time is life’s call, perhaps its purpose. Significantly, the third phase of life (related to the ninth to twelfth house) does not come with much opportunity to reform. It ends, without forewarnings, in death either with moksha or another life attached after death.

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What was infancy is childhood today & the childhood of yesterday is perhaps adulthood today: How soon does a child get attracted to what others have but he doesn’t? The fascination for goodies and the sense of the having or not comes faster to him now, perhaps than ever before, for he watches TV from birth and possibly registers the sounds of mobiles and advertising jingles in his mother’s womb. Earlier, it was a gradual process to the 2nd house stage, governing wealth and possessions, from the 1st house, representing physique and initial period of life in a horoscope. But no longer. The 2nd house, among many areas, importantly governs wealth, the fascination for which perhaps is now activating a child sooner than ever before.

In earlier times, people reached the phase of fascination for wealth only when exposed to youthful pastimes like the cinema. In pre-independence decades, it was perhaps in early youth. We are assaulted with advertising images of goods to be desired from childhood now. We perhaps need to redefine and re-age infancy and childhood.

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