Module 1
The sky model
What the zodiac is, how a position is measured, and why the Vedic zodiac sits about 24 degrees behind the Western one.
6 parts
StartJyotisha, Read the Sky
Learn to draw a birth chart and read it, one small step at a time.
Twenty modules. Each one has a short lesson, pictures you can drag and play with, a worked example, practice, flashcards and a quiz. Start at the top and go in order.
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Foundation
Module 2
Time
Clock time, world time and star time. Why the birth time has to be converted before anything else.
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Module 3
Finding the planets
How to read a table of planet positions and place the Sun, Moon and planets by hand.
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Module 4
Casting the lagna
Finding the rising sign from the time and place of birth.
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Module 5
Nakshatras, padas and the navamsa
The 27 stars, their quarters, and the ninth chart that hides inside the main one.
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Core
Module 6
The planets and their dignity
What each planet stands for, and when it is strong or weak.
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Module 7
The twelve houses and their lords
The twelve areas of life and which planet rules each one.
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Module 8
Reading a chart
Putting it together: rulers, aspects and the special combinations called yogas.
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Module 9
Doshas and the nodes
Mars trouble, Saturn's seven and a half years, the knots, and the snake coil of the nodes.
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Module 10
Dashas
The planet periods that time a life, and how to work them out and judge them.
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Module 11
Kandam and the instruments
The pressure windows, the fire and water labels, and what they can and cannot tell you.
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Relationships
Module 12
Porutham and ashtakoota
The two classic ways of matching a couple from their Moons.
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Module 13
Overlays between two charts
Laying one chart over another, in both directions.
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Advanced
Module 14
Divisional charts
The finer charts cut from the main one, for marriage, children and career.
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Module 15
Jaimini and the soul planet
A second system inside the first, built around the planet with the highest degree.
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Module 16
Transits and ashtakavarga
Where the planets are now, and a points system for judging what they bring.
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Module 17
Planetary strength
Six ways of measuring how much power a planet really has.
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Module 18
The past life and moksha layer
What the tradition says about past lives and release, graded honestly.
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Module 19
Special yogas
Cancelled weakness, the five great person yogas, and other famous combinations.
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Capstone
Module 20
Read a chart blind
You cast and read a chart you have never seen. Then it gets marked.
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