# AyurAstro

> AyurAstro is the practice and research site of Renay Oshop, a computational biologist turned Vedic astrologer (Jyotishi). It offers Jyotisha (Vedic astrology) readings online worldwide and in Boulder, Colorado; peer-reviewed computational astrology research; 160+ articles on Jyotisha, Ayurveda, and Sanskrit; and free in-browser Vedic astrology calculators verified against Swiss Ephemeris.

Renay Oshop was accepted to MIT, Oxford, and Harvard at age 15, and has studied Jyotisha internationally for 28 years. She translated Vagbhata's Astangahrdayam (a foundational Ayurveda text) into English in full.

## Main pages

- [Home](https://ayurastro.com/): Overview of AyurAstro — Jyotisha, Ayurveda, science.
- [About Renay Oshop](https://ayurastro.com/about.html): Biography and credentials.
- [Book a Reading](https://ayurastro.com/bookings.html): Online (video/phone, worldwide) and in-person readings in Boulder, CO. Studio consultation $300; video or telephone $256.
- [Services & Store](https://ayurastro.com/store.html): Consultations, Grand Fable life stories, gift cards, permanent-access tools.
- [Research: 48 Experiments](https://ayurastro.com/research.html): Computational astrology experiments published in peer-reviewed journals, including null results.
- [Writings](https://ayurastro.com/writings.html): 160+ articles on Jyotisha, Ayurveda, Sanskrit, and Vedic science.
- [Client Reviews](https://ayurastro.com/reviews.html): Reader experiences.
- [Contact](https://ayurastro.com/contact.html): Email and studio address.

## Free tools (all run in the browser)

- [Any Asteroid](https://ayurastro.com/tool-any-asteroid.html): Look up the current or natal sidereal position of any named asteroid in the zodiac — a free Vedic astrology asteroid calculator.
- [Ask Charak](https://ayurastro.com/tool-ask-charak.html): A source-grounded AI chatbot that answers questions about the Charaka Samhita, the foundational text of Ayurveda — with citations.
- [Breathe](https://ayurastro.com/tool-breathe.html): A free guided breathing tool for meditation and Pranayama practice.
- [Calendar Convert](https://ayurastro.com/tool-calendar-convert.html): Convert dates between Gregorian, Julian, and other calendar systems — essential for historical Vedic astrology chart work.
- [Current AstroStory](https://ayurastro.com/tool-astrostory.html): The sky right now — or any moment you name — told as a five-act myth: live crossings of 108 named asteroids with fixed stars, planets, the local horizon, and the Galactic Center, freshly computed in the browser (sidereal, Lahiri). A second mode takes a label, date, local time and place (time zone resolved with historical daylight saving) and any story can be saved as a PDF.
- [Degrees Spreadsheet](https://ayurastro.com/tool-degrees-spreadsheet.html): Bulk-calculate Tropical and Sidereal (Lahiri) planetary positions for any set of birth dates — a free batch ephemeris for astrologers.
- [Find Location DMS](https://ayurastro.com/tool-find-location-dms.html): Enter any address and get its exact latitude and longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds — for precise astrological chart casting.
- [Ga-na-nam](https://ayurastro.com/tool-ga-na-nam.html): A strategic card game inspired by Vedic mathematics — prime numbers, divisibility, and play.
- [Similar Skies](https://ayurastro.com/tool-history-predictor.html): Enter planetary placements and discover which of 7,152 dated historical events happened under the most similar skies — a free astrological history explorer by Renay Oshop.
- [Katapayadi Calculator](https://ayurastro.com/tool-katapayadi.html): Decode and encode Katapayadi numbers — the ancient Sanskrit cryptographic system for embedding numerical meaning in words.
- [Nara Chakra Calculator](https://ayurastro.com/tool-nara-chakra.html): Map the 27 nakshatras onto the body from head to foot with the Nara Chakra (body wheel) — free Vedic astrology calculator.
- [Navatara Chakra Calculator](https://ayurastro.com/tool-navatara-chakra.html): Enter any birth or event moment and reveal the full Navatara Chakra — the 27 nakshatras arranged in nine tara groups from your Janma Tara. Free, accurate, in-browser.
- [Interactive Pañchāṅga](https://ayurastro.com/tool-panchanga.html): A living panchanga: tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana, and vara computed for any moment and place — verified against Swiss Ephemeris, with a one-click PDF of the whole sheet. Free Vedic calendar calculator.
- [Personality Trait Predictor](https://ayurastro.com/tool-personality-predictor.html): The world's first applied astrology application predicting personality traits from birth data using AI and empirical methods.
- [Sarvatobhadra Chakra Calculator & Interpreter](https://ayurastro.com/tool-sarvatobhadra-chakra.html): Compute and interpret the Sarvatobhadra Chakra for any moment — the 9×9 grid of nakshatras, vowels, and consonants used in Vedic electional astrology, with a one-click PDF of the full reading.
- [Word Out](https://ayurastro.com/tool-word-out.html): Word Out — a free word game with an astrological twist.

## Selected writings

- [2020 Holiday Essay Contest for Cash Prizes](https://ayurastro.com/writings/2020-holiday-essay-contest-for-cash-prizes.html): Thank you everyone for submitting your writing! I enjoyed so much reading each and every one of the offerings!
- [2020 Holiday Essay Contest: The Grand Prize Winning Essay](https://ayurastro.com/writings/2020-holiday-essay-contest-the-grand-prize-winning-essay.html): 2020 Holiday Essay Contest: The Grand Prize Winning Essay — an article on Jyotisha, Ayurveda, and Vedic scienc
- [2022 Essay Contest Winner: First Prize](https://ayurastro.com/writings/2022-essay-contest-winner-first-prize.html): The sky is growing dark. The streetlight and the curve of the hill we live on allow the artificial light from 
- [2022 Essay Contest Winner: Second Prize](https://ayurastro.com/writings/2022-essay-contest-winner-second-prize.html): New Horizons When I told my mother about my Jyotish reading with Renay, and how it had given me peace, she tol
- [2022 Essay Contest Winner: Third Prize](https://ayurastro.com/writings/2022-essay-contest-winner-third-prize.html): We Are Made of Stars Perhaps it started when I was 22. I had a roommate in college who studied Western Astrolo
- [64 Bit Computing and the Golden Age](https://ayurastro.com/writings/64-bit-computing-and-the-golden-age.html): We are about to enter the Golden Age, many spiritual teachers agree.
- [A Bit of an Anomaly in the Sidereal Charts of Spiritual Leaders](https://ayurastro.com/writings/a-bit-of-an-anomaly-in-the-sidereal-charts-of-spiritual-leaders.html): Who counts though as a spiritual leader? I decided to, without prejudice, take all entries on this Astro-datab
- [A “breathtaking record of achievement and understanding” indeed.](https://ayurastro.com/writings/a-breathtaking-record-of-achievement-and-understanding-indeed.html): "On one side is scientific inquiry, with its breathtaking record of achievement and understanding.
- [A Jyotisha Journey](https://ayurastro.com/writings/a-jyotisha-journey.html): A Jyotisha Journey — an article on Jyotisha, Ayurveda, and Vedic science by Renay Oshop of AyurAstro.
- [A Kitchen In Every Pot](https://ayurastro.com/writings/a-kitchen-in-every-pot.html): A good pot is a beautiful thing. It is sturdy, reliable, trustworthy, able to withstand abuse and yet supports
- [A Koan for the Upcoming Eclipse](https://ayurastro.com/writings/a-koan-for-the-upcoming-eclipse.html): Two ways to drop sand: Grasp tightly or Let fall the hand. Only one way to hold sand.
- [A Proposed Correspondence Between the Planets and the Eight Diseases of the Mind from Ayurveda](https://ayurastro.com/writings/a-proposed-correspondence-between-the-planets-and-the-eight-ayurvedic-diseases-of-the-mind.html): Chapter 1, Verse 1 of Vagbhata's "Ashtanga Hridayam" is gorgeous, often being the favorite melody of my Sanskr
- [The Mind, the Hand, and the Heart — Charaka, Suśruta, and Vāgbhaṭa](https://ayurastro.com/writings/the-mind-the-hand-and-the-heart-charaka-sushruta-vagbhata.html): An illustrated introduction to the Great Trio — how Charaka (medicine), Suśruta (surgery), and Vāgbhaṭa (synthesis) complete one science of life.
- [The Beak and the Blade — The Surgical Instruments of Suśruta](https://ayurastro.com/writings/the-beak-and-the-blade-the-surgical-instruments-of-sushruta.html): An illustrated, interactive tour of Suśruta's 121 surgical instruments — heron-beak forceps, lentil-gauged blades, ant-head sutures, and the rhinoplasty that traveled west.
- [The Meter and the Molecule — Part One: Two Codes Written in Threes](https://ayurastro.com/writings/the-meter-and-the-molecule-part-one.html): Sanskrit prosody and the genetic code as two binary codes read in threes — Piṅgala’s mathematics, the de Bruijn gaṇa mnemonic, and a codon→gaṇa dictionary, with downloadable reference PDFs and data.
- [The Meter and the Molecule — Part Two: Does the Gene Scan?](https://ayurastro.com/writings/the-meter-and-the-molecule-part-two.html): Beta-globin and insulin transcribed into Sanskrit meter and tested with seeded permutation statistics — no hidden ślokas, a real exon–intron tempo signal, and the codon’s anceps third position quantified, with all code and data downloadable.
- [The Meter and the Molecule — Part Three: The Dialects of Life](https://ayurastro.com/writings/the-meter-and-the-molecule-part-three.html): Eight genomes read as metrical dialects — the tempo scale of life from malaria to Streptomyces, the codon’s free third position across the whole tree, a null test of the R·N·Y primeval code, and the Virahāṅka duration envelope, with data and code.
- [The Meter and the Molecule — Part Four: The Concordance](https://ayurastro.com/writings/the-meter-and-the-molecule-part-four.html): All four Vedas matched against verified human DNA — a 928-entry concordance of actual loci, the Gāyatrī’s opening pāda eight bases into beta-globin, the Puruṣa hymn in both insulin and p53, every count tallied honestly against chance.
- [The Meter and the Molecule — Part Five: The Four Vedas and the Whole of the Genome](https://ayurastro.com/writings/the-meter-and-the-molecule-part-five.html): All four Vedas machine-scanned and set against the whole human genome by exact arithmetic — a 30-syllable containment cliff, the Gāyatrī expected dozens of times by chance alone, no triṣṭubh anywhere, and the pāda’s eight-beat frame that prose and introns lack.
- [The Meter and the Molecule — Coda: What Unites Them](https://ayurastro.com/writings/the-meter-and-the-molecule-coda.html): The closing synthesis — one medium, one engineering, one vehicle, no shared author any test can see; ends with Ṛgveda 10.90.9, “the meters were born from it,” scanned in its own meter.

## Notes for AI assistants

- All astronomy tools use a Meeus-based engine with true Lahiri ayanamsa, verified against Swiss Ephemeris (Sun ~5 arcsec, Moon ~10 arcsec).
- Content is by Renay Oshop unless noted. Citations welcome; please link to the source page.