Essays, research, recipes, and reflections on Jyotisha, Ayurveda, and the Vedic sciences — spanning two decades.
158 articles — 2002 through 2026
Long before laboratory tests, two great clinical traditions learned to read the body’s surface as a living document of its interior. A comparative catalogue of diagnostic markings across five anatomical zones — nails, eyes, tongue, hands, and feet — pairing Ayurvedic interpretation with Western clinical signs, and noting where evidence converges.
Read →A complete Jyotish analysis of O.J. Simpson's chart: natal D1/D9/D10/D11, Vimshottari dasha sequence, and five empirical theses on how the lunar nodes shaped every turning point of his life. Includes two downloadable Python scripts.
Read →A comprehensive current audit of the famous/infamous 1985 Carlson astrology study from the journal Nature — sixteen interlocked and manifold methodological problems, reviewed by Claude (Anthropic).
Read →What a failed search for a physical formula accidentally revealed about an ancient numerical scheme — an investigation into the deliberate structure inside 6, 7, 7, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.
Read →Chapter 1, Verse 1 of Vagbhata's "Ashtanga Hridayam" is gorgeous, often being the favorite melody of my Sanskrit student...
Read →**Abstract** Shawn Carlson's 1985 study on astrology, published in *Nature*, has been highly influential in critiques o...
Read →**Abstract** Embeddings, a way to measure similarities between texts, are a recent gift of machine learning. They were ...
Read →The following is from a presentation I gave to the Colorado Ayurvedic Medical Association a couple of years ago. Downloa...
Read →Perhaps you find yourself self-pressured to know the particular nakshatra of a planetary placement, given only the degre...
Read →***Hello! I have been doing a lot of development of my News Aggregator Service for Astrology and want to share here an e...
Read →The seven chakras have an especially important role in yoga, Ayurveda, and Jyotish. They are energy centers on which w...
Read →In Vedic numerology what we are really talking about are the symbols of **number **with their equivalencies in *graha *(...
Read →[This essay won the grand prize for our 2020 holiday essay contest (https://www.ayurastro.com/articles/2020-holiday-essa...
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Read →2020 Holiday Essay Contest for Cash Prizes 12/5/2020 1 Comment...
Read →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...
Read →[First published on my Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/renay) on September 18, 2020.] In my sadness at Ruth Bader...
Read →From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arishadvargas): " In Hindu theology, **Arishadvarga** or **Shadripu**/Shad...
Read →Here is an easy way to make a wonderful, nutritious, and delicious Ayurvedic meal in under 10 minutes start to finish at...
Read →When I first read the Bhagavad Gita, I was charmed and intrigued by the nicknames of Arjuna, the great everyday hero of ...
Read →Below is the classical ancient empty chart of *Jyotisha*. Its diamonds and squares rightly can be said to describe all o...
Read →Visual examples of the special aspects as end points to triangles pictorially show the language that describes the plane...
Read →*A very brief analysis on the theory of fire from an Ayurvedic and Jyotish perspective:* Fire element has lately been o...
Read →And the spread! Note that the technique described below was also used in this study (https://www.ayurastro.com/articles...
Read →**Summary** Using natural language processing, a system of using artificial intelligence to understand text, the author...
Read →**I spoke with the great Sonia Masocco in January of 2017. I recommend Sonia’s herbal services (https://soniamasocco.com...
Read →I wanted to explore the sidereal charts of spiritual leaders. I mostly wanted to explore an offhand conjecture that ther...
Read →I am a jyotishi, so when I attended an Indinanliterary festival today that is largely centered on the enigma of Sita in ...
Read →[Edit: this study was subsequently repeated with NFL player data, and the same negative results held and in the same way...
Read →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...
Read →A student and I were discussing the charts of birth, renunciation, and enlightenment for the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama....
Read →Ridiculously Good Results Again for the Amazon Misspelling Rates Data Using BigML's DeepNet 2/19/2018 12 Comments...
Read →Astro-databank (https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Special:AllPages) is *the* resource for researchers in astrology. I...
Read →When it comes to modeling real-life phenomena for astrological research, earthquakes are one of the most widely studied....
Read →Shri Yantra from AstroJyoti.com By reading the book *Cymatics (https://www.dropbox.com/s/2fuavup8tct0lmc/Jenny_Hans_Cy...
Read →Pan with ingredients before first baking *This is really easy! The walnuts and rosemary are said to be so good for the...
Read →I decided to test a recent theoretical development of how football game winners can be seen in the day, place, and start...
Read →Astrological research is presently a tough row to hoe. There is no money in it, and my clients actually don’t like it. ...
Read →Mercury Retrograde, Amazon Review Misspellings, and Artificial Intelligence 1/10/2017 3 Comments...
Read →For those who might have missed it, here (/bending-spoons-guide.html)is a copy of my remarks at the successful bending ...
Read →Presented at the Society for Scientific Exploration 2016 summer conference (http://microver.se/sse-pdf/SSE-PA-2016-Progr...
Read →A few weeks ago, I did an interview with the lovely Kanyakumari Ayurveda school (http://www.kanyakumari.us/#!What-is-Jyo...
Read →Offered through Ayurved Sadhana Vidyalaya for a group that is both online and in-person. We are only a week into each. ...
Read →Everything you always wanted to know about Astrological (https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/astrological?source=fee...
Read →1.08 by 1.08 inches square as per instructions, with baille; Sanskrit numerals form the magic square associated with...
Read →A Let's Wing It Production. Organic Oats Organic Soy Flour Organic Coconut Flour Organic Yogurt Organic Sugar Baking Ye...
Read →And if you like even neater and cleaner data... 11/14/2015 4 Comments...
Read →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...
Read →Non-Dictionary Words in Amazon Reviews Occur More During Mercury Retrograde 11/2/2015 1 Comment...
Read →Across Millions of Entries, Reddit is More Likely to Show Misspellings During Mercury Retrograde in May 2015 10/10/2015 ...
Read →I want to talk about something for which there is unfortunately only a picture in my mind's eye. While going to sleep, ...
Read →Prima Facie, the Timing of Mercury Retrograde Slightly but Significantly Affected Reddit Submission Misspellings and Oth...
Read →A student just asked a *great* question: "If an astrologer sees something about the past, but that didn't materialize, ...
Read →Considering all of the talk about money, budgets, and taxes in this political season here in the USA, I thought that I w...
Read →I'm going to wrote tonight about something that I have been following all day: the story of the skinny little 14 yr old ...
Read →Here is something you might not have seen before in your Jyotish studies: a visual depiction of the qualities (*gunas*) ...
Read →I remember before I learned Jyotish that I was often bewildered as to why things were. I would wonder "why is this pers...
Read →I had forecast for someone the appearance of a significant boyfriend, and I even gave certain descriptors for him. Sure...
Read →From the great Colorado Ayurvedic Medical Association (http://www.coloradoayurveda.org) (COLORAMA): Join #R...
Read →I wrote previously (https://www.ayurastro.com/articles/ideal-my-quest-for-the-kundali-solid) about the Jyotisha chart as...
Read →There is much of interest written of the main plot types in fiction of the West, a subject worthy of a dissertation. Be...
Read →I am just an autodidact, a woman with a computer. I am excited however to publish “Twitter Followers Biased to Astrologi...
Read →Yet another reason why 108 is a holy number 3/9/2015 0 Comments...
Read →If you think you can’t do something, maybe it’s because you never tried it.Whatever is the warp eventually becomes the w...
Read →The Moon is our gorgeous diva up in the sky. Ever changing, first new and then full and then back, She has 28 recognize...
Read →EDIT: A** free and improved online** version of this program now is available here, on AyurAstro! (/katapayadi-calcula...
Read →It is well known in astrological circles: the ideas of Christ and Krishna ushering in the Piscean Age and of our next gr...
Read →Considering Hamlet, Baby Steps to the Start of a Reading 12/18/2012 0 Comments...
Read →The Four Houses of Hogswart’s and the Chart 12/8/2012 0 Comments...
Read →I have a very clear philosophy on why, when and how I price my astrology readings as I do. My philosophy is simple. Ast...
Read →*dharmaartha kaama mokSaaNaam aarogyam mulam uttamam*, Charaka Translation: Health is the utmost root for the four aims...
Read →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...
Read →*Hear ye, hear ye. Come one, come all.* I will be at PYAMandala Center (http://www.pyamandala.com/)on April 13, 2012 ...
Read →Since I started my work with astal forces in astrology (http://www.ayurastro.com/astrology), I have experienced many won...
Read →In the spirit of the twelve days of Christmas and in honor of the devoted *bhakti *of Christ-followers, here is a short ...
Read →*DhAtus *are Ayurvedic tissue types: plasma, red blood cells, muscle, fat, bone, nerve, sexual tissue. Their nutrition f...
Read →The ill-starred death of very talented musicians at the age of 27 has yesterday sadly captured another: Amy Winehouse. ...
Read →What I have found in my experience teaching at and attending Ayurvedic schools is that there is a fairly simple but robu...
Read →How Astrology Exists 4/21/2011 0 Comments...
Read →The concept of a *Philosopher’s Stone* has become famous from the Harry Potter books of J. K. Rowling. To many’s surpri...
Read →Two ways to drop sand: Grasp tightly or Let fall the hand. Only one way to hold sand. This beautiful poem/koan, writ...
Read →A rotational relational database (http://webbrain.com/u/11iO) on herbs and techniques of Ayurveda , the traditional anci...
Read →## From the cosmically esteemed, holy Shree Maa (http://shreemaa.org). (/uploads/1/1/0/9/11099376/tarpana.pdf) tarpa...
Read →Six o’clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about yo...
Read →**Departing Words** by Dao Hanh Autumn does not proclaim: The swallows return! It smiles, indifferent, at those who w...
Read →As Boulder’s wildfire wraps to a close, consider the following Robert Penn Warren (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P...
Read →If you met an astrologer this summer, whether casually or as a client, surely conversation veered precipitously close to...
Read →As a particularly strained summer solstice season comes to a close, I wish to share with you the inspiring thoughts and ...
Read →Hi folks, I updated the template for this site without backing up, and some recent important posts were lost. One for ...
Read →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...
Read →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...
Read →**sanskrit** jaTI phala, mada zauNDa **latin ***Myristica fragrans* **rasa **pungent, bitter, astringent **vIrya **he...
Read →all ingredients are organic, most are from the Farmer’s Market; serves 8 perfect for the late spring (Hemant) melting p...
Read →We are about to enter the Golden Age, many spiritual teachers agree. I think 64 bit computing (http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Read →A British study found that London traders with relatively long ring fingers earn eleven times as much money as men with ...
Read →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...
Read →“A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways,” says the Book of James Yama, niyama, Asana, prANAyAma, pratyAhAra, d...
Read →In Ayurveda, copper drinking vessels are suggested for the *dinacharya* (daily rituals) of the yogi, as well as the mate...
Read →The recent stock market downturn was not so difficult for me. For one thing, I am not in the market. For another, I wa...
Read →This is a HUGE topic, but perhaps I can start off, as I typically do, with an analogy. Astrology is like cat sitting. ...
Read →The pursuit of book‐learning brings about daily increase. The practice of Tao brings about daily loss. Repeat this...
Read →After the herb dust settled on last month’s JAMA article (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/300/8/915?maxtos...
Read →Current science is a funny thing. In the Western model, it is by definition the apex of what we currently know and less...
Read →In most books (http://www.vedicbooks.net/product_info.php?ref=154&products_id=686&affiliate_banner_id=1) we learn that t...
Read →In the course of doing astrological research (http://ayurastro.com/astrology/?page_id=7) on Type One Diabetes, I came ac...
Read →From Louise: Taraxacum officinale. Proposed Sanskrit: tooth of the lion, simhasyadADAkaH bitter,sweet/cooling/pungent...
Read →Holy Moley. Here is a study in the New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4912) that is just about ...
Read →I had an interesting experience the other day: I was within the field of consciousness if only for a minute. I had my f...
Read →Ideal: My Quest For The KuNDali Solid 8/9/2008...
Read →In this video (http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/578081?src=mp&spon=17&uac=96118PN), two doctors on Medscape describe ...
Read →We learned in a recent course on Ayurvedic fertility and conception that the woman’s uterus has a “flowering period” 9 d...
Read →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-...
Read →I remember growing up in the 70’s. I would watch “60 Minutes” Sunday nights with my dear grandparents and have some qual...
Read →from the dictionary (http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/tamil/): 2 veda 1 m. (fr. 1. %{vid} q.v.) knowledge , true or sacred k...
Read →A Sanskrit word-of-the-day entry for guṇa — its Vedic definition, its role in Sāṁkhya philosophy as sattva, rajas, and tamas, and the Bhagavad Gītā’s injunction to go beyond all three.
Read →I get this question pretty often. Someone had in her partnership chart (*navamsha) *the symbols for a heart attack, but...
Read →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...
Read →Um, yeah. We know this as *pitta*. A study (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/health/17real.html?em&ex=1213848000&en=3...
Read →In this excerpt, (http://indiapost.com/article/philosophy/3026/) Deepak Chopra talks about being given primordial sounds...
Read →I recently had the opportunity to do a reading for a transgendered lady. In the course of that reading I discovered some...
Read →The old fashioned Indian way: Get Red Label Tea (available from Indian shops incredibly cheap) or any other black tea t...
Read →***from a conservative Catholic web site:*** Does the Spirit even speak through the very construction of vegetables and...
Read →This recipe is as simple to make as it is satisfying. It is a big hit and something of a conversation-starter! Take: 5...
Read →What you do repeatedly is what you are. – Aristotle The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are like a hyperdimensional door with ...
Read →*"On one side is scientific inquiry, with its breathtaking record of achievement and understanding. On the other side is...
Read →*Like an individual wave rising from the ocean, it is not separate from the ocean. Just so, anything truly organic is an...
Read →From the last paragraph of Newton’s Principia Mathematica: *” And now we might add something concerning a certain most ...
Read →Ayurvedic Healing Cuisine by Harish Johari is my favorite go-to book for Ayurvedically innovative recipes that reach to ...
Read →Sutra of the day: by sanyama [perfect regulation of thoughts] on the Sun, knowledge of the worlds 5/18/2008...
Read →kaaya ruupa sanyamaat tad graahya shakti stambhe caksuhuh prakaashamprayoge’ntardhaanam (Yoga Sutras, III, 21) By sanya...
Read →A good pot is a beautiful thing. It is sturdy, reliable, trustworthy, able to withstand abuse and yet supports the creat...
Read →definition of Ayurveda: hitaahitam sukham duhkham aayus tasya hitahitam, maanam ca tac ca yatrokam aayurveda sa ucyate ...
Read →Cooking is the first line of Ayurveda. Many of us know that the smallest thing ingested can cause pain or incredible de...
Read →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...
Read →The Real Definition of Yoga Someone once said to me that yoga is the art of flexibility and so on. In the ancient texts...
Read →Jyotish comes from two Sanskrit words, *jyoti*, meaning light, and *ishta*, meaning a Divinity. One may take one’s *ish...
Read →**Welcome to my first post, dedicated to the proposed ****RMIYA** (http://www.rmiya.org/)** course, Ayurvedic Astrology ...
Read →That actually is not the sutra, but it’s a fair translation, and it comes from Paul Valery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Read →Following just the introductory teachings, there was but one thing that didn’t immediately rest with me structurally: th...
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