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" He has made everything beautiful in its time.

He has also set eternity in the hearts of men;

yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end."

-- Ecclesiastes, 3:11



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Namaste


~~ Hamlet, I-v, 166

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio,

than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

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na chorahaaryaM na cha raajahaaryaM na bhraatRibhaajyaM na cha bhaarakaari |

vyaye kRite vardhata eva nityam vidyaadhanaMsarvadhanapradhaanaM ||

It cannot be stolen by thieves,

Nor can it be taken away by kings.

It cannot be divided among brothers.

It does not cause a load on your shoulders.

If spent... It indeed always keeps growing.

The wealth of knowledge

Is the most superior wealth of all!

-- vidyAprasha.nsA at Sanskrit Documents

Jyotisha Topics

~~ Albert Einstein quoted in D. Brian Wiley. (1996). Einstein, A Life. p 186

"We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages.

The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is.

That it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand those laws.

Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations."

~~ Luke 21:25

"There shall be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars."

9 Graha = 7 classical planets plus Rahu-Ketu

12 rashi = 12 zodiacal signs

12 bhava = 12 houses

names of the 12 houses in Sanskrit and English

27 Nakshatra [lunar constellations]

Chandra in 27 Nakshatra Graha and Chakra


Vimshottari Dasha

  • Vimshottari Dasha:Forgivenessand Closure during Final Bhukti Of each Mahadasha

  • Vimshottari Dasha: Bad Angles between major timelord and sub-period lord


Upagraha - shadow planets

Varga- divisional charts

Pushkara Navamsha - table of 108 zones of good fortune, via the empowered karaka

Dwaadamsha = Table of 144 divisional assignments

The Four Trines: Dharma Artha Kama Moksha Kshetras

Vakri = "crooked", Retrograde


Planetary Combinations = Yoga= traditional significations, and calculation options


The Self-Puzzle: Acquiring the Pieces, Putting the Pieces Together

Marriage and Partnership

Divorce and Separation


Parents: finding Family members in the Jyotisha chart, Mother and Father

Siblings: Brothers and SistersChildren, step-children, grandchildren




Planetary Gem Remedies Planetary Bhasman = herbal ash


Contemporary Astrological Practice Issues- including counseling philosophy and practical psychic steps

VOCABULARY from cologne sanskrit lexicon:

"daivaprazna

  • inquiring of fate , astrology

    • A supernatural voice heard at night (cf. upa-zruti)

    mauhUrtika

    • lasting for a moment , momentary; relating to a particular time or hour

    • skilled in astrology; an astrologer

    • a class of celestial beings (children of Muhurta)

    parAzara

    • a crusher , destroyer

    • a son of Vasishtha or of a son of Sakti and grandson of Vasishtha; the father of Vyasa ; said to be the author of Rik Veda

    • the author of a well-known code of laws

    • name of several writers on medicine and astrology

    samayavidyA

    • science of right moments , astrology"

  • ~~ Hermes Trismegistus, Tabula Smaragdina = The Table of Emerald.

    English = "as above, so below"

    "Quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius,

    et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius."

    What is Jyotisha?

    • samayavidya = 'science of right moments'


    Divination is a method of symbolic pattern recognition.

    The Sanskrit word according to Wikipedia, the term "Jyotisha" derives from Jyoti meaning "Light".

    • Jyotisha is a vidya: a body of partly mystical, partly mathematical knowledge which apprehends and interprets the "lights" of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars.

    Jyotisha, as it is practiced worldwide today, is An ancient prediction system rooted in the scriptures of brilliant Indo-Aryan astronomer and astrologer Vahara Mihira. Jyotisha is often called "Vedic" astrology, although the name may be a misnomer since "vaidik" priests of ancient India actually used a a particular lunar astrology in their rituals which is quite different from the solar Jyotisha that is widely used today.

    • Nevertheless in my pages one may read the term "Vedic" used as a blanket term for "scripturally traditional Indian" and referring to a large and extremely diverse lore of ancient = starting circa 1500 BC and medieval Indian = including south-Asian, Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, and Mediterranean = astrological literature that far extends beyond the original portfolio of the "vaidik" priesthood.

    • Skilled Vedic astrologers, or Jyotishi (daivajna), can evaluate health, wealth, love, marriage, children, career, art, and death by using a series of astrological techniques developed within the ancient Vedic traditions, over the course of the last 25 centuries (at least).

    Jyotisha as a system of Accounting

    Jyotisha can be understood as a s on the correct application of "Counting Rules".

    Jyotisha requires careful application of universal accounting principles. Ideally Jyotisha can yield a complete and accurate itemization of every single experience which the native's subconscious image-projecting machine might produce in this lifetime.

    In principle, everything should be accounted for, with no remainders.

    TThe system is valid. However, the issue of correct labeling due to limitations of vocabulary and a cramped sense of possibility (self-limiting beliefs) has produced at the present time in history a set of mental conditions which impose some serious handicaps upon practicing Jyotishi.

    Jyotisha modeled as a language

    The two essential components of any language -- whether natural (human spoken) or artificial (e.g. computer languages) =

    • (1) lexicon = vocabulary

    • (2) grammar = syntax

    Jyotisha can be modeled as a language, with its own grammar and lexicon.

    Jyotisha grammar consists of its underlying principles for the construction of rational propositions, its definitional rule-base, and its lawful step-wise procedures for correct accounting.

    The grammar of Jyotisha defines the mechanical rules which drive the experience-projection machinery of the human Mind. In this sense Jyotisha is an ancient and ever-lasting "science of the mind". Correct application of these scientific rules can generate accurate predictions of future experiences for an entity which has its own Mind.

    AAs comprehension of the vocabulary of Jyotisha increases, the community will be able to practice more and test more the underlying Jyotisha grammar.

    Jyotisha vidya practice community and its relationship to Sankrit

    The polite and delightfully poetic human language = Sam-skrita has been the carrier language for Jyotisha traditions for a number of millennia. All pranams to Sanskrit for its noble service of protecting and preserving the vidya during long dark times.

    However the Jyotisha conceptual system far predates the linguistic origins of Sanskrit language. Sanskrit itself is a linguistically organic development from earlier languages. Before languages as we know them were needed due to the down-cycle of the yuga wheel, highly telepathic signal systems that were used for countless eons to communicate value and meaning from one generation to the next.

    Knowledge of Sanskrit vocabulary at this time in history remains an essential tool of Jyotisha practice. However expertise in the grammar of Sanskrit is less important that expertise in the grammar of Jyotisha.

    To facilitate the development of a worldwide Jyotisha community it is important IMO to begin translating Sanskrit terminology or introducing Sanskrit terms into the modern commercial languages. (E.g., as the Skt words 'yoga' and 'karma' have entered the lexicon of modern English.)

    The birth of each New Age in the great cycles of history is marked by a major set of translations from the great works of previous cultures. I believe that a large-scale translation-interpretation of Jyotisha texts and commentaries from their protective sanctuary languages (Sanskrit, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Newar, Bodkye-Tibetan, Avestani, and others) will signal the birth of a new age of consciousness in the literate cultures worldwide.

    ~~ Paracelsus

    "He who is born in imagination discovers the latent forces of Nature. . . .

    Besides the stars that are established, there is yet another -- Imagination -- that begets a new star and a new heaven. "

    ~~ Walt Whitman

    "Re-examine everything that you have been taught.

    Discard anything that is an insult to your soul and begin again."

    The Real Truth: It's All In There
    • Every person is creating their own unfolding experience of life, in every moment of every day.

    • The process by which life experience is generated = projecting stored subconscious images and expectations onto today's reality.

    • Learn to follow the inner teacher (in-tuition) who is the guide to that massive inventoryof thoughts, hopes, dreams, fears, expectations, terrors, aspirations, memories, desires, knowledge, skill, and genius stored in the great warehouse Of thesubconscious.

    • You will see the Programming.

    • You will see the your Path.

    • Absolutely no one outside oneself ever has - or ever could have - full access to your truth and your path.


    Jyotisha is a vidya = a system of coordinated learning that utilizes the full range of intuitive knowledge of the human condition in cooperation with rational methods of applying principled interpretation to external sense data.

    Jyotisha is not an empirical science in the narrow modern sense. It is much bigger than that.

    Jyotisha is indeed a science in the classical western sense of scientia. Jyotisha comprises a database that contains both historic (time-bound) and immediate (timeless) knowledge.

    Unfortunately, at the present moment, due to severe limitations on permissibility of data (itself an understandable reaction to the excesses of religion in eras just now passing away) modern science is more a system of technology, and less a full inquiry into the knowable.

    • Epistemologically legitimate evidence in Jyotisha can include intuitive information which is obtained from interior sources during a state of contemplation, meditation, reflection, or prayer. Clairsentience is not required in the practice of Jyotisha but it is permitted and supported.

    • Jyotisha requires the simultaneous operation of both rational and intuitive intelligence.

    • Like most of the classical vidya traditions, Jyotisha is too much handicapped by the limitations of dogmatically positivistic science. Thus Jyotishi who live in the industrialized worlds tend to compartmentalize their worldview.

      • The great modern Jyotishi Bepin Behari was also a prominent and effective government economist charged with systematic programming for one of the largest economies in the world. He wrote a stack of technical books in economics (shelf-1) and another stack of catalogues and commentary in Jyotisha (shelf-2).

    Having said that, it does help very much to learn Jyotisha rules via the 'case method' of data-analysis. That is why I have developed www.barbarapijan.com -- as a place where students can look at sample nativities, and see how some of the most basic principles of Jyotisha are applied to individual cases.

    The website certainly needs improvement, but I've heard from hundreds of students that they use and appreciate the materials. It's not science, but it sure is interesting!

    ~~ Interview with Henry Ford in The San Francisco Examiner. August 26, 1928

    "I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six.

    Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction.

    • Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next.

    • When I discovered Reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan.

    • I realised that there was a chance to work out my ideas.

    • Time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock.

    Genius is experience.Some seem to think that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives.

    Some are older souls than others, and so they know more.

    The discovery of Reincarnation put my mind at ease. If you preserve a record of this conversation, write it so that it puts men' s minds at ease. I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us ."

    ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

    "Wherever we go, whatever we do,

    self is the sole subject we study and learn."

    The Self-Puzzle: Acquiring the Pieces, Putting the Pieces Together

    Self-revelation is required to connect each person with missing (subconsciously concealed) aspects of ones own identity. These self-pieces are missing usually because of past-life trauma. It is often necessary to experience some pain of the old trauma as the pieces come back to light.
    • One of the major vehicles for self-realization in the modern world is the intense mirroring of intimate relationships. The threat of starving to death has receded for a big portion of the world's population, so now we are privileged to move into a new level of pain: anxiety, fearful worrying, and psycho-emotional suffering!

    • Indeed the human person is a complex entity. Gathering all of the pieces takesreflective time and study, as well as some tolerance for emotional pain. If you have the courage to work through it, using the map of the Jyotisha nativity (and any other reflective tools which may provide intuitive guidance) it is possible to make great progress in reclaiming the lost parts of one's identity.

    • In a difficult marriage? Disrespected at work? Parents invasive and manipulative? Sick child? All of these phenomena = dharma = purposeful. They are trail-blaze marks which show that one is on the proper path.

    • Find their indicators in the Jyotisha nativity, and reclaim your connection to the full range of human experience.

    • The painful and exhilarating experiences, the worry and the gratitude, are the textbookfor studying one's own life purpose. See your path winding though the field of projections.


    There is nothing "good" or "bad" in this world, there is only one's fearful or accepting reactionsto the projections. At the moment when all reactions have ceased and the full range of one's internal projection can be seen objectivelyin its awesome totality, at that moment one sees how amazingly creative the mind is! Wow! Every leaf on every tree, every glance from every other human and animal, every pang of love and sorrow - one's own mind created all that!

    The Jyotisha chart can provide a useful one-page agenda, to guide the self-interpretive process. Life purpose and path to enlightenment is actually less complex than it may first appear, because there is so much repetition:old fears = Shani . Old resistance comes back in new guises, almost indefinitely until conscious intention aborts that infinite feedback loop. Jyotisha dasha patterns can expose the repetition cycles.

    Like any good story, the Jyotisha narrative has repeating psychological themes which express with intriguing variation and nuance = to keep the reader-native entranced! Yet a competent literary analysis will show that each lifetime has a fixed structure, and that the core dramatis personae = body, siblings, parents, children, servants, spouse, advisers, boss, God, friends = all fit on one page, just like a Shakespeare play.


    A favorite spiritual teacher of mine once said: each person is a heroin their own movie. Each movie has an inspiring theme song. Each person wins an Oscar for Best Actor! She would say, what is your movie theme song? What are the production values? Is it is good script?

    In the final 60 seconds of life, we all have to watch the replay of our self-movie. Will one feel proud of one's own performance at the Final Showing?

    Jyotisha can help expose the structure of the script, so that one can do one's most heroic job in the role.


    'I realized my everyday struggle with life was heaven'

    ~~ Pierre Teillard de Chardin

    "We are not human beings, having a spiritual experience.

    We are spiritual beings, having a human experience."

    Can the script be changed?

    Yes of course - the script is determined by one's ultimate thoughts and beliefs, and beliefs can be consciously changed.

    But here is the chuckle. Most folks, having achieved the consciousness to appreciate the literary structure of one's own script = via Jyotisha or otherwise) do realize that this script has authenticity, integrity and purpose.

    It is unique and perfect.

    The path is perfect. One may make small adjustments here and there. That is the entitlement of consciousness:one gains the intelligence necessary to change one's originating internal imagery in order to change the resulting external imagery.

    As above, so below.


    However, seeing that the path is unique and perfect, one tends to keep it just as it is, as a gift from God, and merrily wend one's way through the forest of illusion, battling the demons of fear and doubt, in gratitude for the privilegeof the incarnation.

    Jyotisha is helpful for its ability to predict when the demons (of subconscious fear) will emerge, and what shape they will take.

    But it is up to the native to destroy one's own self-generated illusions along one's own path.

    When one acquires all the pieces of this self-puzzlethrough owning and appreciating the elaborate complexity of one's own projection, one is consciously whole. At that moment of wholeness, one knows one's inherent identity with God = all that is . Simultaneously, one is able to see everyone else's identity with God. (All those people are projections too!). It is a lovely moment, called Enlightenment.

    It is possible to repeat the moment at will, simply by remembering how one's projections are all connected. It is possible to advance on the path toward realization using any environment, any set of relationships, any mirrors we choose.

    Jyotisha can provide a reminder, and a map to the territory.

    ~~ Henry Ford

    "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are correct..."

    Jyotisha *can be* a mirror showing your Path to Enlightenment/Unburdenment

    Remember: under no circumstances do things happen "to" one.

    Reality is constantly being created by a mechanism of projection of accumulated expectations, many of them fear-driven, upon the blank screen of consciousness.

    The privilege to have such a blank screen is indeed a great gift!

    The priceless opportunity of a human birthis the privilege to even have:

    • The possibility of learning what's in the inventory = skanda.

    • seeing the cycle of subconscious projection in action

    • learning to manage it (with compassion and skill)

    • And eventually to unloadall of the fear and desire

    • which provide the fuelthat keeps the incarnational recycling machine (samsara) going!

    • That keeps us recycling through endless heavens and hells of "experience"

    ~~ Abraham Lincoln

    “A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be."

    ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

    "To finish the moment,

    to find the journey's end in every step of the road,

    to live the greatest number of good hours,

    is wisdom".

    -- H. H. Dalai Lama, The Path to Tranquility

    "From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering.

    Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this.

    From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.

    Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness."

    ~~ Holy Qur'an, sura of Ibrahim 14:24-26

    "Allah shows by example. He provides a good word, which like a good tree, has roots firmly fixed and branches high into the sky."

    Why the Vedic perspective?

    In his preface to Myths and Symbols of Vedic Astrology, the modern Jyotisha philosopher and economist Bepin Beharisays:

    "The relevance of Vedic knowledge has greatly increasedwith the rapid growth of modern science and technology.

    Knowledge of the expanding universe, the development of international communication, and the spread of a materialistic way of life are modern developments that have stimulated insecurity and caused people to lose faith in life.

    The individual human being has become indistinct, having lost his uniqueness.

    Man faces a dilemma in that traditional values no longer satisfy modern emotional and intellectual needs while the human mind has developed to a point where it cannot blindly accept just any philosophy.

    The Vedic concept of life - the identity between the individual and the universe, the possibility of an unlimited growth and expansion of human faculties -- couched as it is in a different symbolism or abstract philosophy, transcends the understanding of most people.

    Unless such inner knowledge can convincingly demonstrated to the inquiring mind, it will not be accepted.

    Yet, with an objective study of the principles of Vedic astrology, it is possible to demonstrate that an individual's personal life, in spite of innumerable frustrations and immense complications, is looked after and guided by natural forces and cosmic intelligence."

    12 Bhava - Main Page

    In Brihat Jataka, Ch.1 Shloka 15, Varahamihira says:

    "The nature of the twelve houses commencing with Lagna or the rising sign is thus described:

    1. Lagna or the first house governs body

    2. Second house governs relatives

    3. Third house governs brothers

    4. Fourth house governs friends

    5. Fifth house governs sons

    6. Sixth house governs enemies

    7. Seventh house governs wives

    8. Eighth house governs death or terminus vitae

    9. Ninth house governs auspicious qualities and the general state of the moral conditions

    10. Tenth house governs profession, honors, and dignity

    11. Eleventh house governs income and finance

    12. Twelfth house indicates expenditure.

    The sixth, tenth, eleventh, and the third bhava = Upachaya = "improving"

    although some authors say that they are not always improving."

    ~~ Seneca the Younger

    Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla.

    "The journey is long by teaching; yet via example it is brief and effective."

    Sanskrit initial syllables for nama-graha - Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotisha

    ~~ http://www.nineplanets.org/days.html

    Nine Graha = 9 Planets

    Navagraha - main page

    12 bhava- main page

    Surya-Sun: Divine Intelligence and The Soul

    1. Surya in 12 Bhava

    2. Surya in 12 Rashi

    3. BPHS Vimshottari dasha of Surya

    4. Herb = Bhasman for Surya

    5. Arranged Marriage vs. Falling in Love -Shukra vs. Surya

    6. Ravi's Idealismand Narcissistic Idealization

    7. Surya in yuvati bhava, spousal ego and burningidealism



    Kuja-Mars: Animal Body and Competitive Strength

    1. Mangala: 12 Rashi Qualities = Mars in 12 Signs

    2. Mangala: 12 Radix Sthana Qualities = Mars in 12 Houses

    3. "Manglik" - Kuja Dosha = Mars glance to the marriage house

    4. Chandra + Mangala Yoga = Moon + Mars

    5. Mangala and Shani

    6. Herb = Bhasman) for Kuja

    7. BPHS Vimshottari Dasha of Mangala

    8. Gochara Mangala , description of transit effects through 12 bhava

    9. A special transit: gochara Mangala 234 days in Karkata


    Budha-Mercury: Mentality and Connection

    1. 12 Rashi Qualities of Budha

    2. 12 Domain Qualities of Budha

    3. Budha + Other Graha

    4. Graha in 3rd-from-Budha

    5. Budha + Business: 12 domains of Commercial Profit

    6. Budha's Two Adolescent Mentality houses " = Sahaja and Ari

    7. BPHS Vimshottari dasha of Budha

    8. Herb = Bhasman) for Budha


    Guru-Jupiter: Children, Expansion, and Wisdom

    1. 12 Rashi Qualities of Guru

    2. 12 Bhava Qualities of Guru

    3. BPHS Vimshottari Dasha of Guru

    4. Guru's neechcha transit through Makara in year 2009

    5. Herb = Bhasman) for Guru

    6. Yogas from Guru

    7. Who will I marry? Judging spousal character predictions from karaka lordship in the woman's nativity = Guru = first husband

    Shani-Saturn : Karma, Rules, and Structure

    1. Directory of Shani Files


    Shukra-Venus: Sensual Love and Indulgence

    1. Shukra in 12 Rashi

    2. Shukra in 12 Sthana

    3. Shukra and Addictions- too much sugar

    4. Shukra + Surya, sensual love + political idealism, the wife's father, a woman's own perfectionism = Venus + Sun; moudhya

    5. Moudhya Shukra - idealization, dissatisfaction

    6. Surya vs. Shukra, Brief Idealization vs. Lasting Partnership

    7. Easy Partnership Checklist - how is Shukra doing?

    8. BPHS Vimshottari Dasha of Shukra

    9. Herb = Bhasman) for Shukra

    10. Shukra important Yogas


    Rahu-Ketu: Detachment and Desire

    All meaning is determined by the method used to derive it.

    Twelve Signs of the Zodiac

    Rashi - Raazi

    1 Mesha [Aries]

    2 Vrishabha [Taurus]

    3 Mithuna [Gemini]

    4 Karkata [Cancer]

    5 Simha [Leo]

    6 Kanya [Virgo]

    7 Thula [Libra]

    8 Vrischika[Scorpio]

    9 Dhanusha [Sagittarius]

    10 Makara [Capricorn]

    11 Kumbha [Aquarius]

    12 Meena[Pisces]

    ~~ Ramayana Ayodhya Kanda, Ch. 105.16

    "Hoarding and expenditure, elevation and degradation, meeting and parting, life and death, all are akin. "

    Twenty-seven Nakshatra

    Table of Nakshatra Attributes - Nakshatra Explanations - Nine Trines of The Nakshatra

    1. Asvini

    2. Bharani .htm">Bharani

    3. Krittika

    4. Rohini

    5. Mrigashira

    6. Arudra

    7. Punarvasu

    8. Pushya

    9. Azlesa

    1. Magha

    2. Purvaphalguni

    3. Uttaraphalguni

    4. Hasta

    5. Chitra

    6. Swati

    7. Vishaka- Radha

    8. Anuradha

    9. Jyestha

    1. Mula

    2. Purvashadha

    3. Uttarashadha

    4. Shravana

    5. Dhanishtha

    6. ShataVishaka-Shatataraka

    7. Purvabhadrapada

    8. Uttarabhadrapada

    9. Revati

    10. Abhijita

    ~~ Paramahamsa Yogananda

    "Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature, to test your consciousness of immortality."

    Yoga = Planetary Combinations

    Karaka = traditional Significators

    Ayanamsha, etc. = Calculation Options

    Varga = divisional charts







    • Table of 144 Dwadamsha = 1/12th sections of each house
    • Varga = divisional charts = including DwadAsh Amsha
    • Dashamsha for career


    Planetary Yoga

    Jyotisha Best Practice Guidelines





    Jyotisha Literature available Free via internet:

    ~~ Chagdud Rinpoche

    The trick is to have positive intention during the dream.

    ~~ Lewis Bostwick

    Be in the center of your head.

    ~~ Carl Jung

    Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. -

    ~~ John 20:23 (New International Version

    If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven;

    if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.

    BP Lama Bio

    Barbara Pijan Lama Jyotisha 2007 photo
    You always say "Namaste". What does "Namaste" mean?

    In Nepal, "Namaste" is a universal greeting which is offered by all castes and ages.

    Namaste can be understood to mean: "I recognize your light".

    • 'Namah' = the holy name of the Light + 'te' = you

    • Namaste means essentially the same as "hello". (English "hello" = a form of "halo" = 'I see your light'.

    Read what Wikipedia says about 'Namaste'.

    Unattributed Copies of barbarapijan.com

    Q: Subject: Replica of your website

    Dear Madam, Namaste.

    I follow your website very regularly. I am having periods of L 8 = 8 from Chandra) since 3 years which has caused much damage to my identity and career. I read your website regularly to gain inner strength and to forgive myself and accept self for whatever i am.

    Today, i saw this http://viswanadhajyothirnilayam.com/abtastro.php

    website when i was browsing. That website has replicated everything as it is from your website and it was painful to observe people being so mean. Wanted to write this to you so that you could initiate legal action on the culprits responsible for this.

    Regards, B.

    A: Namaste thoughtful reader.,

    Thanks for letting me know about the copycat website = http://viswanadhajyothirnilayam.com/abtastro.php

    Amazing!

    Well, it is an old saying that 'imitation is the sincerest form of flattery' -- so I guess I am flattered.

    Of course it would be a bit more respectful if they would acknowledge that I wrote the material. (I see they have also copied entire pages from Wikipedia. Why not just put in a link?)

    Technically everything published on barbarapijan.com is copyrighted by me.

    Yet, even so, if unattributed copies of my musings upon the vidya are creating a way for someone to discover Jyotisha, then I feel happy about that.

    Sometimes the path toward wisdom is rather circuitous : )

    Thanks again for your nice comments. Wishing you confidence to continue in the struggle of self-destruction-and-rebirth = L-8) and best success in your Jyotisha studies,

    Sincerely Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotisha

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    ~~ Philippians 4:8

    "And now my friends,

    all that is true,

    all that is noble,

    all that is just and pure,

    all that is loveable and gracious,

    whatever is excellent and admirable -

    fill all your thoughts with these things."

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