पत्रिकाthe journal
Notes fromthe desk.
Jyotish, Vastu and tarot, written plainly by the two readers — what a chart says, how a date is chosen, why a card answers yes or no. New notes as the desk finds time; no newsletter, no noise.
Yes or no, how a one-card tarot reading works
A card for each question, and a plain answer. Why a narrow question is more useful than a wide one, and the four cards from the Rider-Waite deck that come up most at my table.
Lakshya Rai Aggarwal
What to bring to a first sitting
The three details that make a chart exact, the one question that makes a sitting useful, and what happens in the first hour at either desk.
Dr. Sachin Atray
What a kundalī tells you, and what it doesn’t
A birth chart is not a verdict. It shows where a life carries weight and when things are likely to move, and it answers the question you bring to it.
Dr. Sachin Atray
Rāhu and Ketu, the two shadows, plainly
They are not planets, they have no bodies, and they move backward. The two nodes of the Moon are the least understood grahas in a chart and the most blamed.
Dr. Sachin Atray
Kundalī matching beyond the guna score
Thirty-six points is where matching begins, not where it ends. What the guna score measures, what it misses, and the two things we look at after it.
Dr. Sachin Atray
Choosing a muhūrta, the hour to begin
A wedding, a foundation stone, a shop’s first day. Muhūrta is the practice of starting at a good hour, and most of it is calculation rather than mystery.
Dr. Sachin Atray
बैठकa sitting
A note answers in general. A sitting answers you.
The chart with Sachin, the card with Lakshya — in Ludhiana or on video, any time zone.