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Learn the sky
Six chaptersone frame
Everything on this site stands on a few old ideas: a road in the sky, a way of counting it, nine moving lights, twelve houses and twenty-seven lodgings for the Moon. These chapters explain them from the beginning, in plain language, and mark the place where measurement ends and tradition begins.
01Read in order, or jump in
The chapters build on one another, but each one stands alone. If you are new, start with the first. If you already know the signs, go straight to the nakshatras or the grahas.
Chapter 1 · 7 min
The zodiac belt
Before any sign, planet or house, there is one plain fact about the sky: the Sun, the Moon and the planets keep to a narrow road. The zodiac is the name for that road.
Read →Chapter 2 · 8 minSidereal and tropical
Western astrology and Jyotisha both use twelve signs of thirty degrees, but they start counting from different places. That one choice is why your Sun sign can differ between them.
Read →Chapter 3 · 6 minElements and qualities
Two simple divisions, one into four elements and one into three qualities, generate all twelve signs. Learn the grid and the signs become easier to remember and to compare.
Read →Chapter 4 · 9 minThe nine grahas
The word graha means “seizer”, something that takes hold. Jyotisha counts nine: the Sun, the Moon, five visible planets and two shadow points on the Moon’s path.
Read →Chapter 5 · 10 minThe 27 nakshatras
The Moon takes a little over 27 days to go once around the sky. Long before the twelve signs reached India, skywatchers named the star groups the Moon visits on each of those nights. They are the nakshatras.
Read →Chapter 6 · 8 minLagna and the twelve houses
The signs describe where the planets are in the sky. The houses describe what part of life they touch. The link between the two is the rising sign, the Lagna.
Read →02How the claims are labelled
Each section of a chapter, a sign page or a tradition page may carry one of three labels. They follow the honesty contract that governs the site.
An observation from astronomy or arithmetic, with its conventions stated.
Our own wording. It is not a quotation of any source.