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Dear Reader I've decided to celebrate the month of December in the spirit of Jovius, ruler of Sagittarius and the season of giving, gratitude and sharing. Instead of the usual pickings, I have an awesome little treat to share with all of you, that I have been inspired to make. So here goes... Yummy Nutty Balls! This winter, up in the north, I'm celebrating with memories of my summer solstice camp adventures in Australia. Both happen around December 22, each year. I owe a lot of my inspiration to the summer Confest. It's season of giving love, and a lot of that begins in the heart of any home, in the kitchen. What you need: 1. A cup of beautifully brown almonds 2. A cup of fresh cashew nuts 3. A cup of sultanas or raisins 4. A cup of delicious roasted coconut flakes 5. A cup of pancake syrup or maple syrup or hotcake syrup- however you choose to call it. I absolutely love this delicious sugar substitute. Good for diabetics. 6. A spice tea of ar

Dear Reader I must be the world's laziest bum, because I'm late by a whole month for the November update. Venus has been retrograde in Scorpio and Jupiter did leave Scorpio this last month. Guys and girls, lots of things have been happening and Scorpio- there is a central axis going through your sting - beautifully represented in the constellation up there as well in the symbol M with the up-turned arrow. So here's what I discovered and made happen in the last month- as a natal Scorp with a progressed birthday coming up on December 8.  Scorpio for beginners- Ruled by Mars and Pluto, in modern astrologos, a feminine sign with a yin polarity, second of the three water element signs, others being Cancer and Pisces. Scorpio rulerships such as sexuality, religion, politics and how we approach the ideas behind what seems apparent, being in-depth about the research and the facts, and helping people understand matters in a fuller sense and a wider context- these are your na

Dear Reader I had a break of a month in September 2018 from writing my regular updates. It was a busy month that saw my Mars going direct and me moving, in more ways than one. Many internal shifts took place in September and some continue, under the influence of Jupiter in Scorpio overseeing the general direction, thanks to its 9th house position in my chart. This month I come with a renewed sense of self, priorities and a better sense of the harmonies. Without taking any more of your time, here is this month's big news, discoveries and contemplative points to take. As we know, Saturn has recently entered Capricorn, his own sign. This is after 29 years of transiting other signs for about 3 years each. He is a builder and acts inn the long term interest. The last time Saturn was in Capricorn, in 1990, the world over, we observed many changes like free trade opened up between countries, globalisation started influencing hitherto conservative economical policies to create mor

Dear Reader In an August way, I'm here at the Sun's transit through Leo, starting from 0 degrees today at the sidereal time of 2000 hours. In reading for many people and events over the years, I have learned that certain characteristics cannot be rubbed off or brushed off as non- applicable, a round on the skeptics. Here I am, either physically or emotionally too lazy to do anything by the right time, also due to my exalted Saturn in Libra, which wishes to give the time bound people of the world a run for their money. But here I am again, arrived! The Sun does keep its clock well maintained and of this, I have much to say. Leos, you are all that brilliant, perfect and right. If you have been following what I'm saying, you kings and queens of the zodiac, natural born leaders, and really amazing actors on the world's stage who have a gift for story, you have an innate search going on in the interior regions of your heart. You are all looking for the place to fi

Dear Reader It is with much trepidation and a perplexing few days that I come to you, bringing news of what to really say, about Cancerians and their lot. My tone is somewhat despondent, because i have beautiful Cancerians all around me, whose entire souls are plain visible to me ( thanks to my empathetic Scorp Sun), but I honestly feel that Cancerians are suffering the most of all the signs, when I look at the size and depth of the travesties in their enormously emotional lives. I found out most significantly, that Cancerians are always though to be caregivers and nurturers and ever-loving mothers but really, at their heart, they want to be looked after. And this is the harsh truth about their lives: that most of them never get to receive the great love and affection they dish out to others copiously in their lives. Most of them grow resentful with old age and embittered, they die, often not even peacefully, but in the violence of this- of a lifelong sentence of being poorly unde

Dear reader Note: The following is mature age content. Parental guidance is advisable. In the search for meaning, I have discovered something very beautiful which I wish to share here with you. In ancient tarot, there is a two of cups which has some very mystical symbology in it. I read the tarot very closely and divine its messages, usually to find clarity, for my querents. One of my querents recently, happened to be a Sun ruled Leo. The lion, represented in the card two of cups came up with an interesting twist. This one has wings. And underneath the winged Lion Lamassu , we find the Caduceus, which has two snakes, coiling upwards with a sword or a wand between them. Further, we see in a foreground, two youthful persons, one of each gender, a girl and boy, cheering with two cups, one each in hand. What is also noteworthy is they wear the wreaths of olive leaves and the boy seems to be handing something over to the girl's outstretched hand. in the background, we see a hill,

Dear Reader I start with apologies to the North Node in Leo, since I bring you a somewhat late update, and since I'm an astrologer and I tend to live in the future, would you kindly find it in you to forgive me? Mercury is riling everyone up, getting their hands to turn into quills and pens, flowing forth with great ideas, conversations and much inspiration to carve out from the self, a greater selfhood. I'm a great fan of Johnny Depp, whose birthday it is on 9th June. I haven't looked at his chart yet, but I derive a lot of inspiration from his work and he's a fine example of the craftsmanship attitudes of Geminis.  Before I proceed into all the juicy gossip flowing out from an eternally chatty Gemini, let me remind you that the moon calendars we have been working on which combine ancient Vedic and modern western astrology are out. It's a great privilege to be a student- learner in the Sagittarius archetype scrolling through such works as the Surya Siddhan

Dear Reader The houses, in astrology are a matter of great significance, as you would know by now. While the signs that occupy the houses are also of importance, here, we capture some amazing information about all the houses, combining sources from both western and vedic traditions. In astrology, all the charts are divided into 12 equal houses. Each house, numbering from 1 to 12 have a significance associated with them. Often, growing up, I remember being very disinterested in mathematics and geometry. I remember thinking, once I grew up and could understand concepts in more depth, that it would have been nice if someone had explained the circles of geometry by using examples of the movement of the Sun, the shape of planets and so on. Perhaps this is happening now in schools, perhaps kids in the future will relate to what seems so abstract and unrelated to life in a much much more interesting way. There are various methods of drawing the houses of a birth chart or an event cha