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na chorahaaryaM  na cha raajahaaryaM  na bhraatRibhaajyaM na cha bhaarakaari |

vyaye kRite vardhata eva nityam vidyaadhanaM sarvadhanapradhaanaM ||


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

The 9 Planets [7 graha plus Rahu-Ketu]

The 12 zodiacal signs [rashi]

The 12 houses [bhava]

The 12 houses in Sanskrit & English

The 27 nakshatras [lunar constellations]

Chandra in 27 Nakshatra

Graha & Chakra


Vimshottari Dasha

  • Vimshottari Dasha: Forgiveness & Closure during Final Bhukti of each Mahadasha

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


Upagraha - shadow planets

Varga  - divisional charts

The Four Trines: Dharma Artha Kama Moksha Kshetras


Planetary Combinations (Yogas) - traditional significations, & calculation options


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

 

Marriage & Partnership

Divorce & Separation


Children & grandchildren

Mother & Father

Brothers & Sisters


Health & Dis-ease

Leadership & Career

Wealth &Values

Politics & Theatre


Education & Socialization

Spirituality & Religion

Death & ReBirth 


Planetary Gem Remedies

Planetary Bhasman (herbal ash)


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


"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

 ~~ Hamlet, I-v, 166


What is Jyotisha?

Divination is the science of symbolic pattern recognition.

The Sanskrit word "Jyotisha" is 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 & 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 & extremely diverse lore of ancient (starting circa 1500 BC) and medieval Indian (including south-Asian, Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, and Mediterranean) astrology 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).


"Re-examine everything that you have been taught. 

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

~~ Walt Whitman


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 inventory of thoughts, hopes, dreams, fears, expectations, terrors, aspirations, memories, desires, knowledge, skill, and genius stored in the great warehouse of the subconscious.

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.


 

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

~~ Henry Ford


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 takes reflective 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) are 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 textbook for 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 reactions to the projections.  At the moment when all reactions have ceased and the full range of one's internal projection can be seen objectively in 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) will all fit on one page, just like a Shakespeare play.


A favorite spiritual teacher of mine once said: each person is a hero in 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 you feel proud of your acting job at the Final Showing?

Jyotisha can help expose the structure of the script, so that you can do your most heroic performance in the role. 


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

~~ Abraham Lincoln


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 privilege of 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.

As Trulshig Rinpoche used to say, "that's just how it is".

When one acquires all the pieces of this Self puzzle through 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.


"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".

~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 

"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."


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

 

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

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

Reality is 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 birth is 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 unload all of the fear and desire 

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

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


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

We are spiritual beings, having a human experience."

~~ Pierre Teillard de Chardin


Why the Vedic perspective?

 

The modern Jyotisha philosopher and economist Bepin Behari says: 


"The relevance of Vedic knowledge has greatly increased with the rapid growth of modern science & 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."


~~ Bepin Behari, preface to Myths and Symbols of Vedic Astrology

 


The Twelve Houses (Bhava)

In Brihat Jataka, Varahamihira says, "The nature of the twelve houses commencing with Lagna or the rising sign is thus described:  

  1. The Lagna or the first house governs body

  2. the second house governs relatives

  3. the third house governs brothers

  4. the fourth house governs friends

  5. the fifth house governs sons

  6. the sixth house governs enemies

  7. the seventh house governs wives

  8. the eighth house governs death or terminus vitae

  9. the ninth house governs auspicious qualities & the general state of the moral conditions

  10. the tenth house governs profession, honors, & dignity

  11. the eleventh house governs income & finance

  12. the twelfth house indicates expenditure. 

The sixth, tenth, eleventh, & the third houses are called Upachaya (improving) houses although some authors say that they are not always improving.


 ---Brihat Jataka, Ch.1 Shloka 15

House 1 = (ascendant,  lagna)  physical appearance, social personality body image:  vitality, overall temperament, stigma, constitution, basis of material life, 

House 7 = Contracts, agreements, Marriage, partnerships:  first marriage, business partnerships, contracts, genitals, law courts, contracts & agreements

House 2 = Values, money, food, speech:  sensual pleasures, wealth, death, hoards and collections, banking, food, mouth, teeth, face, sight, opinions, second spouse, family of origin, traditions, knowledge of history and languages, oral history, second marriage  

House 8 = Secrets, life-span, emergencies:  taboo sexuality, circumstances of death, healing,  death of spouse or divorce,  inheritance,  insurance, tantra, sudden forced changes, hidden things, mysteries, confidences 

House 3 = Your Communications, courage, mental health: hands, writing,  siblings, neighbors, teamwork, business administration, meetings, planning, calendars, commerce, "media", sales, marketing, training, mentality, conversations, publication, announcement, the inner narrative

House 9 = ceremonial religion, priests, philosophy, wisdom, moral & spiritual teachers: father, guru, temple, university, liturgy, worship traditions, wisdom teachings, faith, communication between human and divine, discussion of true philosophy, good fortune, third marriage 

House 4 = Security, roots, home, shelter: mother, parents, kitchen, landed property, vehicles, basic formal education, emotional security, heart. Fourth marriage.

House 10 = Reputation, vocation, profession: career,  prestige, public approval, social reputation, hierarchical leadership positions; responsibilities, executive decisions;  father's values and wealth; dignity & rank 

House 5 = Creativity, authorship,  children of body, mind, & spirit:   politics, theatre & drama; politics, charisma, performance art; self-expression, romantic love, intelligence, celebrity, literature, brilliance, good luck; spontaneous genius; gambling, speculation, winning competitions and campaigns 

House 11 = Community, income, friendships: earnings, salary, friends, science, income, profits; networks (cosmic, conceptual, electronic & social); goals and accomplishments, large gatherings, large groups; ideologies & social connections. Fifth marriage.

House 6 = Poverty, exploitation, argumentation & conflict, enemies, disease: imbalance, servitude, ministries of service, Seva, loans & debt,  chronic health conditions, animals/pets, the lower life forms, clinical medicine, drugs legal & illegal, addictions, police & military,  dissolution of alliance (including loss of marriage); disagreement; cancellation or disruption of contract. 

House 12 = Sanctuary, meditation, losses:  privacy, trance, withdrawal, hospitals, monasteries, ashram, retreats, prisons, dreams, pilgrimage, charity, seclusion; residence in foreign lands; loss of identity, bed pleasures, spying.  clairvoyance; imagination, bridge from physical plane to astral plane.

The Nine Planets (Graha)

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

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

Surya-Sun: Divine Love, Reason & Soul 

  1. Surya in 12 Bhava

  2. Surya in 12 Rashi

  3. Vimshottari dasha of Surya, from BPHS

  4. Herb (Bhasman) for Surya

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

  6. Ravi's Idealism & Narcissistic Idealization


Chandra-Moon: Ocean of Feelings, Whole Mind 

  1. Chandra + other graha

  2. Soma in the 12 Rashis

  3. Soma in the 12 Bhavas

  4. Vimshottari Dasha of Chandra, from BPHS

  5. Chandra Mahadasha, effects according to Rashi of Chandra (from Shil Ponde)

  6. Herb (Bhasman) for Chandra

  7. Chandra in Vrischika - Boundaries for a planetary healer

  8.  Sade Saati [7-yrs Saturn transit to Moon]

  9. Chandra-Mangala Yoga

  10. Rahu counted from Chandra lagna

  11. Shani counted from Chandra lagna

  12. 6th-from-Chandra emotional servitude, giving more than one receives in return

  13. 8th-from-Chandra: emotional destruction and rebirth; loss and regain of control


  14. Marriage and the Moon 

  15. Marriage via 7th-from-Chandra

  16. Marriage partner qualities via Chandra lagna

  17. Emotional Relationships via Chandra lagna

  18. Emotional memory mirrored in first, second, and third spouse  via Chandra lagna


Kuja-Mars: Animal Body & 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 aspect to marriage house)

  4. Chandra + Mangala Yoga (Moon + Mars)

  5. Mangala drishti to Guru

  6. Herb (Bhasman) for Kuja

  7. Vimshottari Dasha of Mangala, from BPHS

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

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


Budha-Mercury: Mentality & Connection

  1. 12 Rashi Qualities of Budha

  2. 12 Domain Qualities of Budha

  3. Budha + Other Graha 

  4. Budha + Business: 12 domains of Commercial Profit

  5. Budha's Two "Teenage" Mentality houses ( Sahaja & Ari)

  6. Vimshottari dasha of Budha, from BPHS

  7. Herb (Bhasman) for Budha


Guru-Jupiter: Children, Expansion, & Wisdom

  1. 12 Rashi Qualities of Guru

  2. 12 Bhava Qualities of Guru

  3. Vimshottari Dasha of Guru, from BPHS

  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, & Structure

  1. 12 Rashi Qualities of Shani

  2. 12 Bhava Qualities of Shani


  3. Karmic Challenge of Shani in domain-1

  4. Karmic Challenge of Shani in domain-2

  5. Karmic Challenge of Shani in domain-3

  6. Karmic Challenge of Shani in domain-4

  7. Karmic Challenge of Shani in domain-5

  8. Karmic Challenge of Shani in domain-6

  9. Karmic Challenge of Shani in domain-7

  10. Karmic Challenge of Shani in domain-8

  11. Karmic Challenge of Shani in domain-9

  12. Karmic Challenge of Shani in domain-10

  13. Karmic Challenge of Shani in domain-11

  14. Karmic Challenge of Shani in domain-12


  15. Shani + Rahu  = Betrayal & Fraud

  16. Shani angles to Chandra, Shani from Chandra lagna

  17. Shani + Chandra [Saturn + natal Moon]

  18. Shani + Surya [Saturn + natal Sun]

  19. Vimshottari Dasha of Shani, from BPHS

  20. Herb (Bhasman) for Shani

  21. Shani_transit Simha: staying socially safe vs. getting personal attention

  22. Gochara Shani [descriptions of Saturn transits]

  23. Sade Saati ["Seven and a Half" - the 7.5-yrs Saturn transit to natal Moon]

  24. Ashtamsha Shani [Shani transit 8th-from-Chandra]


Shukra-Venus: Sensual Love & 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 (combust) Shukra - idealization, dissatisfaction

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

  7. Easy Partnership Checklist - how is Shukra doing?

  8. Vimshottari Dasha of Shukra, from BPHS

  9. Herb (Bhasman) for Shukra

  10. Shukra important Yogas


Rahu-Ketu: Detachment & Desire

  1. Rahu in 12 Domains

  2. Rahu in 12 Rashi

  3. Rahu counted from Chandra lagna

  4. Vimshottari Dasha of Rahu, from BPHS

  5. Herb (Bhasman) for Rahu


  6. Ketu in 12 Domains

  7. Ketu in 12 Rashi

  8. Ketu + Other Graha 

  9. Ketu transit to Other Graha

  10. Gochara Ketu in Mithuna - 16-Nov-2009 until 06-June-2011

  11. Vimshottari Dasha of Ketu, from BPHS

  12. Herb (Bhasman) for Ketu


  13. Rahu-Ketu Period: reflections

  14. Life Cycle of Rahu-Ketu "returns"

  15. Rahu-Ketu Gochara Chandra

  16. Rahu-gochara-Chandra [Rahu transit to natal Moon]


  17. Rahu-Ketu: Mean vs True

  18. Rahu-Ketu_gochara_transits_table.

  19. Rahu-Ketu_gochara_life_effects


  20. Case Study: Rahu-Shani Vimshottari period

  21. Case Study: Rahu transit to Shukra & Kuja - during Vimshottari period of Rahu-Shani 

  22. Rahu_gochara Shukra_during_ Shani_bhukti



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.

~~ Paracelsus


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


Twelve Zodiacal Signs (Rashi/Raazi)

Readings for Rashi Lagna & Chandra Lagna

1 Mesha [Aries] 

2 (V)rishabha [Taurus]

  • Vimshottari dasha for Rishabha lagna

3 Mithuna [Gemini]

4 Karka [Cancer]

  • Vimshottari dasha for Karka lagna

5 Simha [Leo]

  • Vimshottari dasha for Simha lagna

6 Kanya [Virgo]

  • Vimshottari dasha for Kanya lagna

7 Thula [Libra]

8 Vrischika [Scorpio]

  • Vimshottari dasha for Vrischika lagna

  • Alcoholism

9 Dhanusha [Sagittarius]

  • Vimshottari dasha for Dhanau lagna

10 Makara [Capricorn]

11 Kumbha [Aquarius]

  • Vimshottari dasha for Kumbha lagna

12 Meena [Pisces]

  • Vimshottari dasha for Meena lagna


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

~~ Ramayana Ayodhya Kanda Ch. 105.16


Twenty-seven Nakshatra

  1. Asvini

  2. Bharani

  3. Krittika

  4. Rohini

  5. Mrigashira

  6. Ardra

  7. Punarvasu

  8. Pushya

  9. Ashlesha

  1. Magha

  2. Purvaphalguni

  3. Uttaraphalguni

  4. Hasta

  5. Chitra

  6. Swati

  7. Vishakha/Radha

  8. Anuradha

  9. Jyestha

  1. Mula

  2. Purvashadha

  3. Uttarashadha

  4. Shravana

  5. Dhanishtha

  6. Shatabishak / Shatataraka

  7. Purvabhadrapada

  8. Uttarabhadrapada

  9. Revati


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

~~ Paramahamsa Yogananda


Yoga = Planetary Combinations

Karaka = Traditional Significators

Ayanamsha, etc. = Calculation Options





  • Arudha Lagna  [the public's illusory perception]

  • Argala [impact of 2nd,  5th, & 11th from bhava]

  • Guna (subtle properties of reality)

  • Karakamsha

  • Karakatwa (significators of the bhavas) 

  • Karakas [significators of life activities]






Planetary Yogas

Comments on "Guna" and other Marriage Compatibility Assessments

Some of B.V. Raman's 300 Important Yogas

Vimshottari Dasha


"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


Jyotisha Best Practice Guidelines





"Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn."

~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

All the mystical jargon got your head spinning?  For some sensible answers :) read up on  How to Talk New Age 


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

- Carl Jung


The trick is to have positive intention during the dream.

~~ Chagdud Rinpoche


Be in the center of your head.

~~ Lewis Bostwick


If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.

~~ John 20:23 (New International Version)

Barbara Pijan Lama  

Barbara was educated under Passionist priests of the Immaculate Conception Monastery in Chicago, and the Benedictine nuns at St. Mary's Academy in Nauvoo, Illinois.  

Barbara's formal education includes:

  • B.A. in Philosophy of Religion from Reed College

  • M.A. in History of Religions from the University of Chicago

  • M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Portland State University.

Barbara has offered astrological readings & divinations since 1984.

Barbara's astrology uses traditional Jyotisha techniques from the Sanskrit traditions. Her readings are philosophically influenced by classical Western thought as well as Tibetan Buddhist precepts.

  • Born 24-Aug-1956 in Resurrection Hospital, Chicago IL, at 12:12 p.m. *Central Standard Time* (Illinois births rule, 1956)


Are you a Real Lama?

So many people have asked me this question that it's good to be clear:

I am neither a Tibetan priest (bLama) nor the Peruvian animal (llama). :-)

As you may know, "Lama" is a common family name amongst Sherpa, Tamang, & Tibetan folk in Nepal. Through the exotic auspice of Rahu, I married into the Lama family of Zhung Gompa, Nepal, many years ago. 

This family's lineage traces back to the priestly caste of Kham (far eastern Tibet).  However, the family prefers to live in a simple & unassuming fashion, as farmers & working people. 

In this life I am merely "Mrs. Lama". With one child still in school, I use my married name for family ease.


Namaste devanagariYou always say "Namaste".  What does "Namaste" mean?

In Nepal, "Namaste" is a universal greeting which is offered by all castes & 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" is a form of "halo" or  'I see your light'.)

Here is what Wikipedia says about Namaste.


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"Respected Madam, Namashkar, 

Thankz ... this is Truly God's Ray of Hope coming thru Generous and Kind Pandits and Astrologers. 

You have been personally very helpful thru your readings, it did give me a good feeling and satisfaction. I have strong believe in God's management and thru astrology i have been able to give hope several times to my friends and family members, and it is bcoz of your practical experience and hard work, the concepts and methods you have used in the very precious and knowledgeable website. 

There are many books of astrology in Market but your contents tell the application techniques, very rarely found in even Good Books. Your Work is The Gift of God to you, and may God give more Grace so that many benefit from you.

Jai Ganesha."


"Dear Barbara, 

Thanks for creating this wonderful site and the loads of insightful knowledge that one can assimilate. I hunger for this stuff and it gives me joy to devour every morsel if it available anywhere. ... 

I wanted to say thanks for this wonderful site and for giving explanations that quench one's soul as it were and give hope. I am sure many admirers of Jyotisha have benefitted from it. ... You are doing a great service to seekers of truth ...

Keep up the good work, I have spent several hours soaking up the knowledge here on your site several times and each time come out with a new understanding. Hope to see more material as updates. If I have your permission, can I mention this link on some of the astro forums that I regularly visit and take part in.

~~ Gratitude and love 


Hi Barbara,

Your site is fabulous! I'm a French Vedic astrologer (it's rare) and I love your rich site! What great work! I am impressed. How long do you have to realize this site ?

... Congratulations!


"Respected Madam,  Namaskar, 

Thankz for the knowledge given by you. I have learnt most of astrology from your golden wisdom site. It has helped me to clearly understand how astrology works and by your precious knowledge I have been able to help many others.

Credit is all your hard work in the form of your site. No books till now I have seen who give such a logical reasoning to astrology as you have given. It's like the planets unfolding their own story of life, the work is not only of knowledge but also very interesting to read. Shri Bepin Behari books are also of same category.  

Hoping to see more of work which will help many more. I simply apply your logic/concepts to understand astrology and it truly works.

 Jai Ganesha."


Dear Ms. Barbara,

I was very honored to see your work on my chart. Thank you so much for your kindness.

I enthusiastically pursue your site for a long time. You are an excellent astrologer with a wonderful web page that introduces the subject excellent.

Furthermore, I will be so happy if I could help a little on my own terms. I am Turkish and live in Turkey. I would be appreciated if I could introduce you here in Turkey to those who are inclined towards astrology, so in this context, I can translate some parts of your pages into Turkish so to add them as a link in Turkish.

While offering my sincere thoughts of myself, again thank you very much for your work and may God bless you..

~~ Best Regards


"... have been reading your website for a quite a while now. Started reading about Vedic Astrology two years ago. Read a lot of books, websites, forums, etc. But you seem to stand out ... 

I am  ... Brahmin. Astrology was something that was scorned at in my family. Had been skeptical about this ... all my life. But your website changed it. Very impressive."

~~ Australia


Namaste! I was much impressed. I got what I expected, a realized, considerate, intuitive grasp of my horoscope. You are well qualified for this service and hope you spend many more years doing it.

~~ Florida


Namaste. Thank you for making your Jyotisha teachings available to all seekers through your website.

My business is based in India but I was educated in Britain, and I travel the world. In my  spare time, I have been studying your pages. Your Jyotisha view of modern personality is most engaging and I feel quite accurate.  

The Jyotisha that has been practiced in my family for generations is IMO badly poisoned with superstitious fear. It is another link in the slave's chain of dark magic and abuse. 

Therefore I am especially happy to see that you promote charitable service to others as a primary Jyotisha remedy. You are helping to bring some bright light into this world, and I thank you.

~~  Mumbai, London, and Dubai)


"The more I read on your site, the more I feel grateful for your help. I have a religious nature and I meditate daily, but am also trained in western science. I am attracted to astrology. I have studied with teachers here in Europe ... but in my culture astrology is seen as a parlor game and very foolish. Anyway it has never given much satisfaction .... always just a hunger, and hope, that some day astrology would "make sense".  

Thanks for your generous materials. The case studies are very helpful .... You seem to possess a rare competence ... please let me know when my reading is complete."

~~ L. S., Copenhagen, Denmark


""Thank you Thank You Thank You" for waking this up for me." 

~~ A. de A., Pacific Palisades, California


"I appreciate your kindness, spirit and teaching abilities. (I read from your website which is practically helpful, enlightening and in some ways empowering too.)


"... First I am expressing my heartly blessing, for the great work of Jyotish, about third sense of Vedas. I am thinking some body helping to world, who is that, and today by luck I find site on google search, I find some thing new, out from genral thinking, and after working from 1982, in this field, like a astrologer, I find a person, having knowledge, like Saraswati (Saraswati is Goddess of Knowledge, and by the Lalkitab the image of Rahu).

The name Barbarapijan Lama, (baar baar aapi jana lama) people re-enter in meditation, meaning is suitable, and words like a Goddess expressing to human kind. I am not perfact in English, and I did not find my date of birth, but by your kind blessing, if some words I find from you it means I have full blessing of Goddess Saraswati. "


Respected Madam, Namaskar,

Again and again I read your website, and every time my heart just pours appreciation for the hard word you have done, the work is incredible...

I am so much touched by the efforts,  can see the pains and endless work of hours you must have done to write for humanity. May God's grace shine always on you.

~~ Jai Ganesha.


Your reading really was quite affirming for me on a number of levels. The most amazing thing is that it really captured the internal psychology quite accurately I would say! 

I am impressed. I was impressed by your website, too. Thanks.

~~ New York


loved your site. appreciate the effort you have taken for spreading the light. may God bless you.


I thank you for being a special Light of God for me in times of darkness, and wish that many who come in touch with you are blessed with wisdom, strength and guidance.May Lord Hari grant you all your wishes.


Dear Ms. Lama -- 'Praise and Gratitude for your website' --Thank you very much for constructing your excellent website ! Wishing you every happiness always !


Hello Barbara - I have been referencing your website for about a year now and must say it is one the most authentic and accurate Vedic Astrology resources on the web or otherwise.


I have listened to your detailed reading quite a lot these days, which I truly thank you so much for!!! I am seeing my path more and more and feel very good about it all, things just seem right the way they are going.... I would like to get in touch some time beginning of next year for an annual reading as I find the way you put things so helpful. ~~ Switzerland


Dear Barbara Thank You...

Thank you for... Your insights Your positivity Your knowledge Your hard work

I am a person who has received above gifts from you through your website. Your website is like this: "If a person comes and asks for a fish, he is taught fishing itself."

Information on your website and your 'personal' presence in your website through your style, tone and insightful writing has helped me understand my horoscope.

Wanted to acknowledge you & your efforts (astrology & website). Please keep the great work going.


I really appreciate the details you have gone into ,with the explanations also with them, and it is with much relief that I now begin to understand so much more about life and my own relationships. 

Yes, nothing is so bad after all, all that one needs is an understanding, of which I am more than willing to give my all. This understanding helps me too along my own spiritual path.


I want you to know that I think all that you wrote and spoke were perfect words for me to take in at this point in time, and I am grateful that you had the courage to speak the truth.


Thank you for your great article on Kuja Dosha. You have explained things very clearly and logically. In fact, your whole website is a great repository of Jyotisha knowledge. These days your website has become a favorite haunt for me, because it not only offers a lot of information about Vedic astrology, but also the right perspective.


Your wisdom is incredible. The words you use to describe the characteristics of the nakshatras are very very true. When I read your descriptions, I can almost completely apply them to the people whose company I have had to suffer all my life.

Thank you very very much for your generosity and free-sharing of your wisdom with us.


I have been reading your website for almost a week now and i am still reading, there is so much information. Can't find these kind of detailed information on Jyotisha  these days online, even if I do find some, they are either limited in knowledge or verbiage (not in terms of present day) and do not cover related scenarios or areas with respect to a particular topic. 

Thanks to you for this, knowledge needs to be shared and thanks for sharing it well.


I am so overwhelmed to see your website .. bundle of knowledge arranged in such a specific way that if one enters will never wish to sign off .... thank you so much that even though am just a curious follower of Jyotisha, it was so enlightening for me to go through your website. Please keep up the good work. May God bless you with Health and wealth ... I could not leave without writing to you ... I am a law student from Kerala, India. Nice to see the analysis of Amritandamayi Devi chart as I do hail from a place near from her Ashram.


I am learning astrology through books and reading various articles published in the web.

I find your web site very good and the way you have put it across is very easy to follow.


Hi Barbara,   Thank you so much for the Reading ...   Very well done! ... Am very grateful.  ...Namaste in the truest sense.


I am just soooo impressed with the information available on your web-site -- it is amazing! Your efforts at bringing the classical interpretations to modern context are really worth praise and I feel must be shared ... I hope the researchers in Jyotish are getting benefit from you.


I just loved your site , it is enriching , educative and simple to understand , many inhibitions were cleared. 


... your wisdom, dedication and amazing ability to communicate just shine through. I have listened to your reading a few times now and I continue to be impressed each time. You have taught me to look at Vedic astrology in a completely new light, provided a road map and have helped me immensely to prepare my mind for whatever happens. 

I also find a very high level of correlation between your life/atma philosophy and what I am beginning to learn through the Gita. Finally there is hope for the jig-saw puzzle pieces to come together.


Thank you, Barbara and thank you for being one of my anchors and guide. I am grateful.


I have been a regular visitor of your Jyotish site for nearly three years now and I am amazed by the sheer amount of energy, time and work you have must have put to achieve this feat of such voluminous writings on Jyotisha. Your passion of Jyotisha is evident from the depth of your writings...


I am amazed to see the wealth of knowledge on your website.


Namaste Barbara, I'm a student of Vedic Astrology and I come from a family of Amateur astrologers in Southern India. First of all I'm amazed by the level of detail that you covered your website www.barbarapijan.com . I think this is the best site on this topic  on the web.

One topic I haven't yet seen in your site is 'Retrogression of planets'. It will be great if you can cover it sometime. Thanks for your great service to enthusiasts like me. Keep up your great work.


I wanted to thank you so much for your website. I am a student of Vedic astrology, and I have found your site to be an absolute God-send. Your depth and breadth of knowledge is so beautiful. And your language is so clear. I was wondering if you were able to make a hard copy of all the pages in the site, and somehow put them together like a book. I would love to purchase a hard copy. It would be really helpful for me. The site is so vast and wonderful, I think it would be great to have all the information (the way you have expressed it) in a hard copy form. (Or if there is some place that we can access in the site that will allow us to print the whole thing in some order and context? ) Kindly let me know if it can be made available.

A: Thanks so much for your compliments! Numerous readers of the website have requested paper editions, ideally books divided by topic. I wish I had the time to do the necessary editing in order to produce books! Right now my teaching schedule and family life are so demanding that books seem a bit out of reach. The material is here, but the time to re-arrange it in book form? Sometime in the future perhaps! It's a good goal to keep in mind, and I am grateful for your encouragement.


... your articles have been very helpful especially for my understanding of the tricky Rahu-Ketu dynamics ...


"MAY THE MOTHER SARASWATI (GODDESS OF LEARNING) ILLUMINE YOUR MIND SO THAT YOU CONTINUE ON THE GREAT PATH OF DISSEMINATING VEDIC JYOTISHA KNOWLEDGE THAT MAY BEING SOLACE TO MILLIONS ON THIS PLANET."


Thank you and God Bless you for all the wonderful information you provide on your website.


[regarding a Gemstone reading] Very precise and very brilliantly defined. Thank you Barbara


Thank you for all your generous and laborious offerings Surely the world of Jyotish is very benefitted by your mercurial penetration and research.


Dear Mrs. Pijan:

I want to thank you for your Jyotish web page. I am studying Jyotish by myself since 2006 and your openhanded view of teaching Vedic Astrology helps me a lot. I read your texts almost everyday trying to analize and discover new ways of understanding this beautiful system. Of course, studying alone is a difficult task. [Peru]


Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you... I have a wonderful fresh glorious calming and satisfying feeling this morning - thanks to you and your reading! It is surely a pleasure to be validated in spirit... The material problems go on (and on) of course... my husband ... my mother ... my kids ... the money ... But spirit is what counts, and today I feel that you gave me a view of that precious path. I am deeply grateful. [Chicago]


I am an avid reader of your website. I really applaud the amount of research you have put into writing the articles. I had a strong belief in an higher power (read God), however I am starting to lose that faith and now-a-days think that, may be we are just us and maybe it is really just one life with a full-stop (period) at death. Your website helps me still hold on to the faith in a higher power and makes me believe in Karma and after-life. An excellent work indeed.


 

I have been practicing Jyotish for quite some time now and been doing research on certain less-explored areas in this science.

The content composed by you on your website is highly appreciable. I have a request for you regarding additional content on this subject. The effects of planets in various Nakshatras is one area where there is not much text and research work has not been seen. If you can include this content in your website, it would be fabulous.

I am currently doing some research on the same and would like to invite you to share your opinions on this area of research. Also, if you know some books or online sources with this content of Graha effects due to placement in the 27 constellations, kindly give me the list of such.

Looking forward to receive positive response.


Thank you so very much again. This is a powerful experience and the timing is perfect. As always I'm in awe of your capacities and adore your spirit. It's such a pleasure to listen to you!


Q: Namaste,

As so many have said before me, your website is most wonder full, Thank you. I am a student of Jyotish since one year and I have a few questions for you. May I ask with whom you studied and where? Do you offer yourself as a tutor or do you teach Jyotish? Purely out of curiosity, where in the world (approximately) are you living? ...

Thank you again for a most informative and wonderful website and sharing of your knowledge. With Love and Light,

A

Great "social identity" questions! I'll answer in a public venue, since probably others are interested too. 

  • I am an American woman of Northern European ancestry. As an adult, I married into a family of Nyingma Buddhist lineage. I have stayed in Himalayan Nepal, and traveled throughout India.

  • I live in Portland, Oregon, where I work as a university instructor, a consulting Jyotishi, and a hands-on mom. 

  • I have not studied Jyotisha with any material-plane teachers, and I have no Jyotisha lineage credentials. My divination skills receive considerable "technical support" from the astral plane.

  • I hold BA and MA diplomas in the Study of Religion. (Plus a second MA in Linguistics.) Academic study in religion + language caused me to think about numerous belief systems, to read sacred scriptures from a variety of traditions, and to encounter various priesthoods. This study plus world travel has probably raised my inter-cultural competence.  

  • Also I attended psychic school for several years. Psychic training taught me to validate my intuition. For me, the inner teacher (intuition) serves the role of a traditional guru. Jyotisha requires both extensive, detailed reasoning capability and permission to hear the intuition.

  • Tutoring and teaching Jyotisha might be available in the future, if some nice person would like to organize the business arrangements for me. At the moment, my life schedule is very full.

I consider myself to be an earnest, but definitely international-style, student of Jyotisha. As an American with university research training, I'm not much invested the huge accrual of (largely superstitious) cultural custom which surrounds traditional Jyotisha practice. With every respect for the consolation of  ritual, I nevertheless prefer to cut to the chase, and explore the validity of pure Jyotisha - the vidya itself - by testing public and private nativities against ancient predictive principles. 

As a point of character, I  like to test things! The writings on www.barbarapijan.com serve my need to write out case studies (as time permits). Writing up case studies and "rules" pages, plus relevant quotations from some easily-available Jyotisha authorities/commentators, are my own [western academic] way of organizing the information I need to analyze nativities. The case studies especially help me prove - to myself - that the canonical Jyotisha rules are giving the predicted results. 

Over time, I hope to provide a body of case studies that may be useful in elucidating the simplest level of Jyotisha: Vimshottari dasha and varga confirmations. I publish the studies and my reflections as an offering to other students of the vidya, in case they should find it useful.


Q. Namaste Barbara,

I was in search of website on jyotisha.....where I could find the essence and I fortunately happened to visit yours......

I have been an avid reader of astrological books and never found something good on the web, pleasant surprise yours is and to emphasis my feelings, it really puts one in awe and wonder over the Creation where a person from foreign land was able to touch the essence of vedic jyotisha, it transcends all boundaries it seems not to say much about the hard work and time it would have taken to study all this. 

Your website is different, explanatory to the essence, psychologically very insightful. If something more regarding the dashas, antardashas and prtyantra be added, I think it will add more gems to this infinite sea of knowledge you are set to explore. Bon Voyage.


A. Namaste,

Thanks very much for your compliments on the Jyotisha materials at www.barbarapijan.com I am always happy to know that the descriptive articles and sample nativities there have been useful to students of the vidya.

Thanks also for your suggestion to increase the information on Vimshottari and other dasha systems. I appreciate your suggestion. As soon as I have time (!) I will indeed add some more detailed descriptions of those important Jyotisha tools.

I hope my readers will forgive the slow progress of filling out the website materials. In addition to Jyotisha practice, I am also a mother and a university instructor. Yet, slowly, slowly, I do hope to continue to expand the site. My goals are to provide more utility to students and to encourage international Jyotisha research.

Thanks again for your support, and best wishes for your success in Jyotisha studies.

Sincerely,

Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotisha  


Q. Subject: amazing site

Amazing site barbarapijan.com! I found honest predictions here. I'm also an astrologer here in India, in Chandigarh. I like your site so much !! Very good site !!! You have worked so hard. Where have you have learned it from? India? 

A. Namaste,

Thanks very much for your compliments on www.barbarapijan.com . I am delighted to know that you find the materials useful in your study of the vidya of Jyotisha.

In answer to your question, I learned the basic principles of Jyotisha while residing in Nepal. However most of my learning has come from reading books (mainly the classics, plus some great modern commentaries in English, such as B. V. Raman and Bepin Behari). And also, my practice is helped by several decades of reflective meditation upon those basic principles in context of divine goodness and human nature. 

I have always enjoyed Jyotisha, because practice of the vidya requires both reason and intuition to be fully & constantly engaged.

Thanks again for your support.

Best wishes for success in your own astrology practice,

Sincerely, Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotisha


Q. Dear Madam,

Thank you so much for uploading an extensive collection of vedic astrology notes in your website for many to benefit. I am an Indian studying in Swiss. I am an hobbyist astrologer--who learned astrology from beloved Guru Dr. A.P. Rao. ...

I would like to donate some amount (not much being a student though!) for your project of bringing the Vedic astrology learning material on the web in a lucid and well classified manner. Would it be possible to buy the material in a CD form you?

I appreciate your selfless work again and thanks for helping many to grow in the vast field of Vedic astrology learning!   ...

A. Namaste,

Thanks very much for your compliments on the Jyotisha learning materials at www.barbarapijan.com 

It is a great idea to put some of the website pages on a CD. As of yet,  I am not that organized : )  Readers have also asked me to produce e-books and paper books for purchase. I would be happy to produce the information in those media if I had time! 

Unfortunately my teaching schedule is demanding and it seems like just a dream to get the materials edited & published in other media. (In addition to Jyotisha practice, I teach in a university linguistics dept.)

Thanks for your suggestion. If I ever find time to produce a CD I will certainly let you know! I appreciate your support, and wish you best success in your Jyotisha studies.

Sincerely, Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotisha


Have been visiting your website regularly and impressed deeply. the e-mail is just to congratulate you upon a great achievement.
best wishes,
krishna.

Namaste Krishna,  

Thanks very much for your compliments on the Jyotisha materials at www.barbarapijan.com . I am delighted to know that students of the vidya of Jyotisha are benefiting from the articles and example nativities presented there.  

Thanks!   Barbara Pijan Lama

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