The Journal
Notes on a living tradition
Jyotisha is a discipline, not a parlour trick. These are essays on doing it honestly — with sources, with patience, and with the working shown.
- The thirteen degrees that move a zone A phone compass points at magnetic north. Vastu is drawn from true north. On the US west coast the difference is a whole zone — so the app tells you which north it is using. →
- Two doors for every remedy When the person prescribing the gemstone profits from the gemstone, the prescription is worth nothing. Here is how we removed the incentive without removing the shop. →
- Your family had two of them A kul-jyotishi for the chart, a vastu shastri for the house. What the household panel restores — and why the relationship is free while time is not. →
- Astrology with receipts: what it means to cite every claim Classical jyotish is a textual science. Most modern astrology forgot the texts. Here is what changes when every claim has to show its source. →
- Why no honest astrologer reads your chart in five minutes On the difference between a reading and a session — and what the per-minute economy quietly took from both. →