• July 14, 2019
• By : Bharatastro

  Whenever reality confronts myth, usually the latter is found to have the first laugh.  The reason plain and simple is that only a handful of people are conversant with existential realities, who may not be overtaken by belief.  The rest, caught up in their usual mills of life, are not keen to take pains for exploring the truths of life.  Their impressionable minds get carried away by prevailing beliefs, and all the more if {…}

• July 8, 2019
• By : Bharatastro

Picking up threads from the previous issue, it comes out that no individual planet deserves to be termed as a doer in its own right. The planets keep doing their rounds as a part of the system, strictly following nature driven design parameters, with no scope for making any exception, as they can’t make a wilful choice. That leaves no scope for a specific God (ruler) piloting the planet, such as Shanideva administering our Karma. {…}

• June 30, 2019
• By : Bharatastro

Last Saturday, I got stuck in traffic jam at a place where the road is quite wide and therefore, usually one has a smooth go. I then recalled that there was a Shani temple around. People were lined up in a long ques waiting for their turn to offer mustard oil to the deity and reverentially burn earthen lamps, in the hope that Shani deva will spare them of His fury. Out of curiosity I {…}

• June 23, 2019
• By : Bharatastro

All actions on our part are primarily guided by cause-effect chain, the implication of which gets stretched on to the next successive life post death. We are thus born with Karmic imprints carried over from the past birth. These imprints are there in the form of thought-seeds parked in our memory bank, which given a congenial ground, come out in open. They set the terms of how our individual minds are primarily oriented – desire {…}

• June 16, 2019
• By : Bharatastro

Life in its usual run is subject to twists and turns – sometimes pleasant and at other times full of pains. It is ever on its run, continuously undergoing change, as the conditions within and beyond keep varying. There is no scope for having a perfect situation in life. There comes a time when the gross body loses its dynamism and turns into a dead matter. It is true about every finite existence. The duration {…}

• June 9, 2019
• By : Bharatastro

A woman under acute stress, not knowing how to salvage her troubled personal life, came seeking guidance the other day. Narrating her ordeal, she submitted: “I am being continuously harassed mentally and emotionally by my abusive and unyielding husband for years. He blames me being selfish, fixated just to my career aspirations, and least bothered about his concerns and sensibilities. He consciously married me, knowing well that as a working woman, at times I will {…}

• June 3, 2019
• By : Bharatastro

A worried mother came looking for destiny prospects of her son: “When is my son’s career breakthrough due? He is already 27, and yet not settled. When he was born, many astrologers had declared in one voice that he will make it big in life and make me proud. Their observation was based on five markers: Jupiter conjunct Moon in lagna sign Leo forming Gajakeshari Yoga; the lagna lord Sun in the 11th house identified {…}

• May 27, 2019
• By : Bharatastro

A young man not been able to get through qualifying examination for admission into a business school, grudgingly came asking me: “Why did you raise my hope when I was not destined to make it?” “My friend, when I talked about your potential, I also suggested a lesson in how to organise your mind. It would have helped improve your focus, which you lacked badly. Also, aided you in bringing down your mental aberration that {…}

• May 21, 2019
• By : Bharatastro

A south Korean who consulted me sought two clarifications against my observation on his chart: “Is being ambitious and dreaming a good future an illusion? You have talked about my inflated ego. Would it mean that I am groundless and an ungrateful brat?” There is nothing wrong in being ambitious and nursing dreams. In fact, dreams are necessary for reaching heights one is capable of, since they serve a focus to reach an objective. Since {…}

• May 13, 2019
• By : Bharatastro

A lady concerned about continued struggle in her husband’s life, came asking the other day: “What is wrong in his destiny that he has been subject to unwanted twists and turn in his career all through his life? So far, he lost his job nothing less than a dozen times. In between, many a times he has to be out of job also. He is honest, truthful, and hardworking and yet, he has to suffer. {…}