Writings

Thirty Fully Fledged Astrological Research Ideas

Cosmic semiotics: minor planet orbits and astronyms in the news

A Proposed Correspondence Between the Planets and the Eight Diseases of the Mind from Ayurveda

Chapter 1, Verse 1 of Vagbhata's "Ashtanga Hridayam" is gorgeous, often being the favorite melody of my Sanskrit student...

Revisiting the 1985 Carlson Astrology Study: Debunking the Debunking with Modern Statistical Methods

Revisiting the 1985 Carlson Astrology Study: Debunking the Debunking with Modern Statistical Methods

**Abstract** Shawn Carlson's 1985 study on astrology, published in *Nature*, has been highly influential in critiques o...

2022 Essay Contest Winner: First Prize

How machine learning addressed an ancient claim: Distilled descriptions of 6770 mundane events are a function of celestial positions

2022 Essay Contest Winner: Second Prize

2022 Essay Contest Winner: Third Prize

Holiday Essay Contest 2022

Styles of Healers in the Chart

Results for Minor Planet Names in Google News, Refreshed Daily

Across Millions of Pairs, Text Similarities in Descriptions of Events Likely Depend on Similarities in Astrology Charts

Across Millions of Pairs, Text Similarities in Descriptions of Events Likely Depend on Similarities in Astrology Charts

**Abstract** Embeddings, a way to measure similarities between texts, are a recent gift of machine learning. They were ...

The Curious Case of Seeing a Shooting Before It Happens

The following is from a presentation I gave to the Colorado Ayurvedic Medical Association a couple of years ago. Downloa...

An easy mnemonic for finding the change of nakshatras

Perhaps you find yourself self-pressured to know the particular nakshatra of a planetary placement, given only the degre...

NEWS AGGREGATOR SERVICE FOR ASTROLOGY (NASA): A FREE RESEARCH TOOL

***Hello! I have been doing a lot of development of my News Aggregator Service for Astrology and want to share here an e...

An alternate assignment of grahas to chakras

The seven chakras have an especially important role in yoga, Ayurveda, and Jyotish. They are energy centers on which w...

Sign and Symbol: Vedic Numerology and the Zodiac Signs

In Vedic numerology what we are really talking about are the symbols of **number **with their equivalencies in *graha *(...

2020 Holiday Essay Contest: The Grand Prize Winning Essay

[This essay won the grand prize for our 2020 holiday essay contest (https://www.ayurastro.com/articles/2020-holiday-essa...

How the practice of jyotisha has influenced my year (2020)

[This essay won the first place prize for our 2020 holiday essay contest (https://www.ayurastro.com/articles/2020-holida...

It’s Felt Like a Life Time

[This essay won the first place prize for our 2020 holiday essay contest (https://www.ayurastro.com/articles/2020-holida...

A Jyotisha Journey

[This essay won the second place prize for our 2020 holiday essay contest (/articles/2020-holiday-essay-contest-for-cash...

Ocean of Light - The impact of the practice of Jyotisha on my 2020 year.

[This essay won the second place prize for our 2020 holiday essay contest (/articles/2020-holiday-essay-contest-for-cash...

2020 Holiday Essay Contest for Cash Prizes

2020 Holiday Essay Contest for Cash Prizes 12/5/2020 1 Comment...

Spaces for Personal and Public Planetary Yogas in the Zodiac

Here is just a quick series of thoughts but on something that I have not seen before. Let's look at the houses of the z...

Lioness: Rectifying Ruth Bader Ginsberg's Chart

[First published on my Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/renay) on September 18, 2020.] In my sadness at Ruth Bader...

Shad Ripus and the Digestive Organs

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arishadvargas): " In Hindu theology, **Arishadvarga** or **Shadripu**/Shad...

A Simple Illustrated Guide to Making Peanut Curry Poha

Here is an easy way to make a wonderful, nutritious, and delicious Ayurvedic meal in under 10 minutes start to finish at...

Arjuna's Twelve Names and the Jyotish Chart

When I first read the Bhagavad Gita, I was charmed and intrigued by the nicknames of Arjuna, the great everyday hero of ...

Ayurvedic Daily Organ Activation Cycle as Found in the Jyotisha Chart

Below is the classical ancient empty chart of *Jyotisha*. Its diamonds and squares rightly can be said to describe all o...

Seeing the qualities of energy of the grahas through the shapes of their special aspects

Visual examples of the special aspects as end points to triangles pictorially show the language that describes the plane...

On Fire

*A very brief analysis on the theory of fire from an Ayurvedic and Jyotish perspective:* Fire element has lately been o...

How I correctly picked  the Super Bowl this year

And the spread! Note that the technique described below was also used in this study (https://www.ayurastro.com/articles...

History Repeats Itself

**Summary** Using natural language processing, a system of using artificial intelligence to understand text, the author...

Plants and Planets Part 1

**I spoke with the great Sonia Masocco in January of 2017. I recommend Sonia’s herbal services (https://soniamasocco.com...

A Bit of an Anomaly in the Sidereal Charts of Spiritual Leaders

I wanted to explore the sidereal charts of spiritual leaders. I mostly wanted to explore an offhand conjecture that ther...

The Enigma of Sita

I am a jyotishi, so when I attended an Indinanliterary festival today that is largely centered on the enigma of Sita in ...

Negative Results: Average Height, Weight, BMI among Male Pro Soccer Players Do Not Vary by Sun Sign

[Edit: this study was subsequently repeated with NFL player data, and the same negative results held and in the same way...

My Dental Pain Abatement Herbal Tea

I recently had some serious dental pain. It was a must lie down, tears in my eyes, think I am going to die kind of pain...

Some Jyotish on the Four Sights of Buddhism

A student and I were discussing the charts of birth, renunciation, and enlightenment for the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama....

Ridiculously Good Results Again for the Amazon Misspelling Rates Data Using BigML's DeepNet

Ridiculously Good Results Again for the Amazon Misspelling Rates Data Using BigML's DeepNet 2/19/2018 12 Comments...

Even AA Rating Charts in Astro-Databank of People Born After 1930 Are Highly Likely to be Wrong

Astro-databank (https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Special:AllPages) is *the* resource for researchers in astrology. I...

Earthquake Magnitudes and Moon Phases Correlate

When it comes to modeling real-life phenomena for astrological research, earthquakes are one of the most widely studied....

The Natural Forms of Simple Standing Waves

Shri Yantra from AstroJyoti.com By reading the book *Cymatics (https://www.dropbox.com/s/2fuavup8tct0lmc/Jenny_Hans_Cy...

Butternut Herbed Squash with Goat Cheese and Dates

Pan with ingredients before first baking *This is really easy! The walnuts and rosemary are said to be so good for the...

Casual, Double-Blind, Cross-Sectional Study of Super Bowl Retrodictions

I decided to test a recent theoretical development of how football game winners can be seen in the day, place, and start...

About Astrological Research

Astrological research is presently a tough row to hoe. There is no money in it, and my clients actually don’t like it. ...

Mercury Retrograde, Amazon Review Misspellings, and Artificial Intelligence

Mercury Retrograde, Amazon Review Misspellings, and Artificial Intelligence 1/10/2017 3 Comments...

Bending Spoons Redux

For those who might have missed it, here (/bending-spoons-guide.html)is a copy of my remarks at the successful bending ...

Astrology, the Queen of All the Pseudo-Sciences

Presented at the Society for Scientific Exploration 2016 summer conference (http://microver.se/sse-pdf/SSE-PA-2016-Progr...

Embarassing Astrology: Illuminati and the Age of Reason

A few weeks ago, I did an interview with the lovely Kanyakumari Ayurveda school (http://www.kanyakumari.us/#!What-is-Jyo...

Not too late to sign up for Sanskrit and/or Jyotish

Offered through Ayurved Sadhana Vidyalaya for a group that is both online and in-person. We are only a week into each. ...

Free Astrological Research Webinar Series

Everything you always wanted to know about Astrological‬ (https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/astrological?source=fee...

Graha Yantras by Renay Now Available

1.08 by 1.08 inches square as per instructions, with baille; ​ Sanskrit numerals form the magic square associated with...

Gluten-Free Protein Bread

A Let's Wing It Production. Organic Oats Organic Soy Flour Organic Coconut Flour Organic Yogurt Organic Sugar Baking Ye...

And if you like even neater and cleaner data...

And if you like even neater and cleaner data... 11/14/2015 4 Comments...

Full USDA List of Foods in Order of Ratio of Protein to Calorie

I did this quick project for a friend who wanted to know the best place to put her dollars to get the most protein. The...

Non-Dictionary Words in Amazon Reviews Occur More During Mercury Retrograde

Non-Dictionary Words in Amazon Reviews Occur More During Mercury Retrograde 11/2/2015 1 Comment...

Across Millions of Entries, Reddit is More Likely to Show Misspellings During Mercury Retrograde in May 2015

Across Millions of Entries, Reddit is More Likely to Show Misspellings During Mercury Retrograde in May 2015 10/10/2015 ...

The Yoga of Sva

I want to talk about something for which there is unfortunately only a picture in my mind's eye. While going to sleep, ...

Prima Facie, the Timing of Mercury Retrograde Slightly but Significantly Affected Reddit Submission Misspellings and Other Unusual Word Choices in May 2015

Prima Facie, the Timing of Mercury Retrograde Slightly but Significantly Affected Reddit Submission Misspellings and Oth...

When Retrodiction Fails

A student just asked a *great* question: "If an astrologer sees something about the past, but that didn't materialize, ...

On Money, Mores, and Meaning

Considering all of the talk about money, budgets, and taxes in this political season here in the USA, I thought that I w...

Ahmed's Clock

I'm going to wrote tonight about something that I have been following all day: the story of the skinny little 14 yr old ...

Visual Classifications of the Nakshatras

Here is something you might not have seen before in your Jyotish studies: a visual depiction of the qualities (*gunas*) ...

To not take things personally

I remember before I learned Jyotish that I was often bewildered as to why things were. I would wonder "why is this pers...

When a boyfriend does not show up

I had forecast for someone the appearance of a significant boyfriend, and I even gave certain descriptors for him. Sure...

Giving a Boulder Talk Soon on the Mind

From the great Colorado Ayurvedic Medical Association (http://www.coloradoayurveda.org) (COLORAMA): Join ‪#R...

The Sacred Geometry of Jyotish Redux

I wrote previously (https://www.ayurastro.com/articles/ideal-my-quest-for-the-kundali-solid) about the Jyotisha chart as...

The Four Types of Conflict in Literature and the Vedic Astrology Chart

There is much of interest written of the main plot types in fiction of the West, a subject worthy of a dissertation. Be...

Twitter Followers Biased to Astrological Charts of Celebrities

I am just an autodidact, a woman with a computer. I am excited however to publish “Twitter Followers Biased to Astrologi...

More on Jyotisha, The Eyes of the Vedas

Yet another reason why 108 is a holy number

Yet another reason why 108 is a holy number 3/9/2015 0 Comments...

Life Lessons Learned Through Knitting

If you think you can’t do something, maybe it’s because you never tried it.Whatever is the warp eventually becomes the w...

What Makes Your Moon Full?

The Moon is our gorgeous diva up in the sky. Ever changing, first new and then full and then back, She has 28 recognize...

Katapayadi Calculator

EDIT: A** free and improved online** version of this program now is available here, on AyurAstro! (/katapayadi-calcula...

Nakshatras and the Recent Human Stages of History

It is well known in astrological circles: the ideas of Christ and Krishna ushering in the Piscean Age and of our next gr...

Considering Hamlet, Baby Steps to the Start of a Reading

Considering Hamlet, Baby Steps to the Start of a Reading 12/18/2012 0 Comments...

The Four Houses of Hogswart’s and the Chart

The Four Houses of Hogswart’s and the Chart 12/8/2012 0 Comments...

My Pricing Philosophy

I have a very clear philosophy on why, when and how I price my astrology readings as I do. My philosophy is simple. Ast...

Electromagnetic Human

The Four Aims of Life and The Noble Eightfold Path: Unifying Ayurveda and Buddhism

*dharmaartha kaama mokSaaNaam aarogyam mulam uttamam*, Charaka Translation: Health is the utmost root for the four aims...

Super Moon 2012

Here is a view of the May 2012 Super Moon phenomenon – the full moon happens to occur at the same time as it is at its c...

My First Big City Talk on Astrology

*Hear ye, hear ye. Come one, come all.* I will be at PYAMandala Center (http://www.pyamandala.com/)on April 13, 2012 ...

Bhutas

Since I started my work with astal forces in astrology (http://www.ayurastro.com/astrology), I have experienced many won...

The Vedic Chart of Jesus?

In the spirit of the twelve days of Christmas and in honor of the devoted *bhakti *of Christ-followers, here is a short ...

Dhatu Nutrition May Revisit The Formation of the Solar System

*DhAtus *are Ayurvedic tissue types: plasma, red blood cells, muscle, fat, bone, nerve, sexual tissue. Their nutrition f...

The 27 Club

The ill-starred death of very talented musicians at the age of 27 has yesterday sadly captured another: Amy Winehouse. ...

How To Choose an Ayurvedic School That Is Right For You

What I have found in my experience teaching at and attending Ayurvedic schools is that there is a fairly simple but robu...

How Astrology Exists

How Astrology Exists 4/21/2011 0 Comments...

The Philosopher’s Stone, an Ayurvedic Bhasma?

The concept of a *Philosopher’s Stone* has become famous from the Harry Potter books of J. K. Rowling. To many’s surpri...

A Koan for the Upcoming Eclipse

Two ways to drop sand: Grasp tightly or Let fall the hand. Only one way to hold sand. This beautiful poem/koan, writ...

Ayurvedic Herb Database

A rotational relational database (http://webbrain.com/u/11iO) on herbs and techniques of Ayurveda , the traditional anci...

Tarpana – An Effective and Beautiful Sanskrit Offering to Our Ancestors

## From the cosmically esteemed, holy Shree Maa (http://shreemaa.org). (/uploads/1/1/0/9/11099376/tarpana.pdf) tarpa...

The Lighting of the Lamps

Six o’clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about yo...

Remains of the Day

**Departing Words** by Dao Hanh Autumn does not proclaim: The swallows return! It smiles, indifferent, at those who w...

About Our Wildfire

As Boulder’s wildfire wraps to a close, consider the following Robert Penn Warren (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P...

Masters of the Universe: Jupiter, Saturn and Sun in Recent Events

If you met an astrologer this summer, whether casually or as a client, surely conversation veered precipitously close to...

Our times, a poem

As a particularly strained summer solstice season comes to a close, I wish to share with you the inspiring thoughts and ...

Recent Posts Lost

Hi folks, I updated the template for this site without backing up, and some recent important posts were lost. One for ...

Vegetarian New Years’

Here is a super popular, quick and easy, New Year’s Day/Dal meal. It actually has been voted in as a weekly Saturday win...

A Vow: What to Eat?

It is said that the Gods rejoice when a person keeps a vow. Here is mine, after seeing the movie, Food Inc. I will onl...

Nutmeg

**sanskrit** jaTI phala, mada zauNDa **latin ***Myristica fragrans* **rasa **pungent, bitter, astringent **vIrya **he...

Turnip Onion Milk Asparagus Spring Soup

all ingredients are organic, most are from the Farmer’s Market; serves 8 perfect for the late spring (Hemant) melting p...

64 Bit Computing and the Golden Age

We are about to enter the Golden Age, many spiritual teachers agree. I think 64 bit computing (http://en.wikipedia.org/...

Ring Fingers and Ring Leaders

A British study found that London traders with relatively long ring fingers earn eleven times as much money as men with ...

The Periodic Table and The 5 Elements of Ayurveda

aham brahmAsmi: I am brahma

brahma is the sanskrit word for all that is. Not all that exists, but all that is. I am that I am – Yahweh For exampl...

An Ode To DhAraNA

“A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways,” says the Book of James Yama, niyama, Asana, prANAyAma, pratyAhAra, d...

Copper Vessels

In Ayurveda, copper drinking vessels are suggested for the *dinacharya* (daily rituals) of the yogi, as well as the mate...

Peoplenomics

The recent stock market downturn was not so difficult for me. For one thing, I am not in the market. For another, I wa...

Ethics in Astrology: Part One

This is a HUGE topic, but perhaps I can start off, as I typically do, with an analogy. Astrology is like cat sitting. ...

Action/Inaction

The pursuit of book‐learning brings about daily increase. The practice of Tao brings about daily loss. Repeat this...

Indigestion: JAMA’s Ayurvedic Treatment

After the herb dust settled on last month’s JAMA article (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/300/8/915?maxtos...

Rose Is An Effective Anti-Inflammatory

Current science is a funny thing. In the Western model, it is by definition the apex of what we currently know and less...

The Pancreas: Where Does The Fifth House End And The Sixth House Begin?

In most books (http://www.vedicbooks.net/product_info.php?ref=154&products_id=686&affiliate_banner_id=1) we learn that t...

The Speed of Light is in the Rk Veda!

What We Can Learn From Epidemiological Birth Data of Type One Diabetes

In the course of doing astrological research (http://ayurastro.com/astrology/?page_id=7) on Type One Diabetes, I came ac...

Dandelion

From Louise: Taraxacum officinale. Proposed Sanskrit: tooth of the lion, simhasyadADAkaH bitter,sweet/cooling/pungent...

Turmeric Seems to Succeed Against Cystic Fibrosis

Holy Moley. Here is a study in the New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4912) that is just about ...

Walking Slowly Through the Yoga Sutras

I had an interesting experience the other day: I was within the field of consciousness if only for a minute. I had my f...

Ideal: My Quest For The KuNDali Solid

Ideal: My Quest For The KuNDali Solid 8/9/2008...

Amazing WAM (Western Allopathic Medicine) Support for Eastern Pulse Analysis

In this video (http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/578081?src=mp&spon=17&uac=96118PN), two doctors on Medscape describe ...

Pushpa = Pushya!

We learned in a recent course on Ayurvedic fertility and conception that the woman’s uterus has a “flowering period” 9 d...

Mother’s Nutrition Affects Gender of Future Child

Here is an article in the New York Times (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/boy-or-girl-the-answer-may-depend-on-...

Brain-washing

I remember growing up in the 70’s. I would watch “60 Minutes” Sunday nights with my dear grandparents and have some qual...

Word of the day: veda

from the dictionary (http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/tamil/): 2 veda 1 m. (fr. 1. %{vid} q.v.) knowledge , true or sacred k...

“Is It My Fault?”

I get this question pretty often. Someone had in her partnership chart (*navamsha) *the symbols for a heart attack, but...

Mars Joins Saturn in Leo

I don’t know about you, but I got my ego kicked in the butt earlier this week. I think it has to do with Mars having ent...

A Spicy Meal Before Bed Can Impair Sleep.

Um, yeah. We know this as *pitta*. A study (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/health/17real.html?em&ex=1213848000&en=3...

Primordial Sounds Are ‘Greatest Medicine’

In this excerpt, (http://indiapost.com/article/philosophy/3026/) Deepak Chopra talks about being given primordial sounds...

Rebirth: A Transgendering Surgery Creates a New Life

I recently had the opportunity to do a reading for a transgendered lady. In the course of that reading I discovered some...

Proper Chai Tea

The old fashioned Indian way: Get Red Label Tea (available from Indian shops incredibly cheap) or any other black tea t...

On the Spiritual Nature of Foods

***from a conservative Catholic web site:*** Does the Spirit even speak through the very construction of vegetables and...

Surprisingly Good Mung Bean Pudding

This recipe is as simple to make as it is satisfying. It is a big hit and something of a conversation-starter! Take: 5...

Sutra of the day: That repetition of a word [it's] meaning [is your] experiencing/becoming.

What you do repeatedly is what you are. – Aristotle The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are like a hyperdimensional door with ...

A “breathtaking record of achievement and understanding” indeed.

*"On one side is scientific inquiry, with its breathtaking record of achievement and understanding. On the other side is...

Ancient Organics Ghee

*Like an individual wave rising from the ocean, it is not separate from the ocean. Just so, anything truly organic is an...

Did the father of calculus and the discovery of gravity do astrology (and Ayurveda)?

From the last paragraph of Newton’s Principia Mathematica: *” And now we might add something concerning a certain most ...

Ayurvedic Healing Cuisine by Harish Johari

Ayurvedic Healing Cuisine by Harish Johari is my favorite go-to book for Ayurvedically innovative recipes that reach to ...

Sutra of the day: by sanyama [perfect regulation of thoughts] on the Sun, knowledge of the worlds

Sutra of the day: by sanyama [perfect regulation of thoughts] on the Sun, knowledge of the worlds 5/18/2008...

Sutra of the day: [how to have]… invisibility

kaaya ruupa sanyamaat tad graahya shakti stambhe caksuhuh prakaashamprayoge’ntardhaanam (Yoga Sutras, III, 21) By sanya...

A Kitchen In Every Pot

A good pot is a beautiful thing. It is sturdy, reliable, trustworthy, able to withstand abuse and yet supports the creat...

About Ayurveda

definition of Ayurveda: hitaahitam sukham duhkham aayus tasya hitahitam, maanam ca tac ca yatrokam aayurveda sa ucyate ...

About Cooking

Cooking is the first line of Ayurveda. Many of us know that the smallest thing ingested can cause pain or incredible de...

About Sanskrit

To study Indian Astrology a good grasp of Sanskrit is a must. -the great C. S. Patel in CVA Journal, II, 1, page 4. Wh...

About Yoga

The Real Definition of Yoga Someone once said to me that yoga is the art of flexibility and so on. In the ancient texts...

‘Jyotish’, Meaning Vedic Astrology and More

Jyotish comes from two Sanskrit words, *jyoti*, meaning light, and *ishta*, meaning a Divinity. One may take one’s *ish...

My Visual Take on How To Teach Jyotish

**Welcome to my first post, dedicated to the proposed ****RMIYA** (http://www.rmiya.org/)** course, Ayurvedic Astrology ...

Sutra of the day: To see is to forget the name of what one sees.

That actually is not the sutra, but it’s a fair translation, and it comes from Paul Valery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

On the Jyotishical Arrangement of Hypercubes

Following just the introductory teachings, there was but one thing that didn’t immediately rest with me structurally: th...