Barbara Pijan Lama Jyotisha - Compliments and Comments

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-- Ecclesiastes, 3:11
" 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."

Your website is excellent. Thank you, I am learning.

"The reason I want a reading from you specifically is because your material on your website is so academic and comprehensive. I can't believe what I have learned as a Jyotisha student. You have definitely been given the proper knowledge and you are blessed with Satya. There are very few books out there that compare to your site. I look forward to the reading."

Your website is incredible. I find myself coming home every day after work, just reading and reading.... many answers to my questions, thank you!

Just a quick message to say thanks so much for running such a fantastic website on Vedic Astrology. I’ve visited your site for a couple years now and have always learned something new or come away with some sort of peace from having gained a greater understanding of Vedic literature and outlook. It's especially refreshing given how good a teacher/communicator you show yourself to be through what you've published online. Keep up the GREAT work - and thanks so much again.

"I am very impressed with your website .... The contents are very elaborate and detailed, indicating the high level of research that should have gone into documenting ... coherently and logically by topics."

"I am only a beginning student of Jyotisha. I think I have learned more from reading your website than from many books. I really appreciate your viewpoint and all the helpful case studies." ~~ Boston, Mass.

"I found your website last year (via Google of course) and have learned a lot about Vedic astrology from your website. I especially appreciate the sensitivity and spiritual perspective with which you write. "

We have just started a study group here in London... I am a huge, huge fan of yours and all the wisdom and experience on your site is fantastic.

Your insights into the Rahu-Ketu dashas and their significance in the chart is priceless! I am completely enamoured.

I would like to express my deep gratitude for your efforts.

I am a student of jyotish for the past 1 year and have referred to your website extensively for my studies.

I could not have learnt so much in this field without your website and your amazing insight. ~~Indonesia

Barbara, I'm very happy with the reading you delivered for our little family. I found the reading very insightful. As you know we've had some upsets and sudden changes these past two years. It's comforting to know that the dasha periods confirm the shocks in our recent past while they also predict a more gentle future. I felt very much in harmony with your interpretations and found myself nodding my head a lot while listening to the reading. Thank you for confirming in detail (what intuitively I always knew) that all will be well in the greater plan. ~~ Missouri

I feel like miracle now to find your site, everything is here for learning, nice and exciting to think about it! thanking you a student

"I was really impressed by and resonated with your insights (and ability to express them so well) on your website... I am thinking maybe I should get a reading from you to see what the ‘true’ picture of my chart is ... or at least get a clearer one so that I really understand what I am dealing with in this lifetime."

Your site has given me extraordinary insight into jyotishvidya and i often refer to it to clarify questions which occur to me. I have the greatest respect for the depth of your knowledge and profundity of interpretation. ~~ India

dear madam...your knowledge is like kameshwari .. encyclopedic is understatement...

"... I also wanted to offer my compliment for your helpful website. ... I am a student of Jyotisha. Unfortunately in my country it is almost impossible to find printed books on Jyotisha ... and I am not having a good luck to find e-books. ... your case studies are quite helpful for me. Thank you Barbara."

I'm exchanging from Western Astrology and I'm excited to learn each time more of Jyotisha since I saw my natal chart on the Hindu-Lahiri's Sidereal Zodical. Your website is being very useful in this journey.

"That is wonderful site! So much to learn! Thanks for your work."

"Respected Madam, Namashkar,

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.

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!

Thank you for the insightful and nuanced, yet clear reading

"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."

Barbara, this ratna report is fantastic.

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

Your website has more info than any Jyotish website I've seen.

"... 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."

~~ Queensland, Australia

thanks again for your brilliant website which must be one of the greatest modern contributions to vedic astrology out there.

~~ New York, New York

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.

The refore 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, Dubai, and London

I hope you are doing well these days.

I just received the response to my follow up question. Thank you so much for being so thorough on the matter. It has made my day! You have given me so much hope. Thank you for such a wonderful blessing. Keep up the great work. May God bless you.

"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 would like to thank you for this website which has been channelizing my thoughts in testing times (Rahu-Venus, Rahu-Sun, Rahu-Moon, combined with Sade sati for Kanya Rashi). I have been able to answer a lot of unanswered questions I have been sweeping under the carpet for so long now. Your site has helped my put a lot of pieces together and view the larger picture that has been forming.

They say the surya antardasa in Rahu Mahadasa brings light to the Eclipsed. You have indeed been the sunlight for me.

Thank you and God Bless you

"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. "

Thank you very much for your generosity in sharing so much insightful, helpful information! You have a brilliant website, and I hope others benefit from it as much as I have!

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

I would like to give thanks for your incredible effort to constructed website

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...

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 and your efforts (astrology and 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. ~~ New York

I am relieved to hear that karmic law is more than what I thought, and that it's work is to transform ignorance into wisdom. I am beginning to see that I have been harsh with myself. I see the big picture of God's work, and marvel at the design, and the use of those big stars and planets in shaping our bodies and our experiences. It's just amazing. I so appreciate the great intelligence and compassion you are sharing with us in your website, and I look forward to learning more.

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 Nakshatra 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.

Thank you deeply for sharing your knowledge and wisdom via your website! Many moments of being stuck, traumatized, tamasic or simply being blissful are always being put into perspective by one or more of your articles on life :-) Your practical, real and well structured commentaries are making a big difference in my understanding of the path of the soul. I think you are doing an impressive job with your readings and website articles to help students understand Jyotish in an undogmatic, realistic and purposeful fashion. This feels greatly empowering in building trust in the divine and all the events that life has to offer. You seem to invest lots of time, devotion and kindness into your service path, this is very inspiring for me personally! Your website is a diamond!

Warm Regards from Switzerland,

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.

I wanted to say that your section on KalaSarpa Yoga was very helpful to explain my chart and kundalini Awakening and its implications

... 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...

(from a reader who sent a generous donation to help develop the website offerings):

All thanks to you really for all the insights and blessings I have experienced while reading your work. You have helped some of my friends who I recommended to you for readings ... who have both benefited enormously from working with you. My studies in Jyotish are getting more interesting and amazing all the time and it has become the central focus for me in my life. Hopefully I can turn it to some benefit for other people as it has been for me. All the best to you and your family. [Australia]

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.

Q: 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 and correct the errors before printing? 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.

thank you for your time and for your invaluable work guiding my path

[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.

I want to express my appreciation and gratitude for this immense work you have put up on your website.

I started out studying western astrology, and have found much difficulty in re-learning; but you have presented your knowledge in a way that is so much easier for me to grasp. I spend a good deal of my evenings on your website reading and reflecting.

The Insights have been frighteningly accurate, and are a great help to this sadhaka.

Thank you so much. God bless you.

A: Thank you very much for the kind words, and God bless you too! I am always delighted to know that the case studies and articles, despite their incompleteness (always need more time to write!) are proving helpful for some students of the vidya. Best wishes for your success in Jyotisha studies. ~~ Barbara

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]

Pranam to you dearest respected Barbara Pijan ji, How are you? I absolutely love your website, it has already taught me so much. You have done vedic astrology proud!!!

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 can’t thank you enough for all the wonderful knowledge you have freely shared! God Bless You!

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 Nakshatra 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.

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 Jyotish have benefited from it. Sites like this are very rare... You are doing a great service to seekers of truth.

Q: Namaste,

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

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.

I just want to tell you I've been poring over your pages.

What a tremendous service and accomplishment your website is, I'm grateful for it.

I would like to thank you building such an incredible website filled with wealth of information. It is a treat for any beginner learning Jyotisha.

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.

Sincerely, Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotisha

i just wanted to thank you for your support and guidance ~~ Houston, TX

I have been feasting on your jyotish website. Oh my, it's a treasure indeed. Studying Jyotish has helped me very much the past few months.

I have always believed that the essence of the message lies in the delivery and I want to sincerely congradulate you on being able to use jotishi to guide modern kids (such as myself) to choose the right path. I would not hesitate to recommend your services to any of my friends or use it myself at a later time. ~~ With Best Compliments, from London

Hope you could continue writing more interesting Jyotish topics ; I enjoy reading them and learning about the ancient art/science.

Dear Madam,

It is a very informative and full of explanation and good guidance for novice and advance leaners in Astrology.

God Bless your service to astrology ~ ~~Malaysia

I so appreciate your open and aware mind! You are a wonderful teacher, and I hope to someday help others as much as you have helped me! Thank you Barbara! May you always know your brilliance, and how much others are supported by your excellent counsel. Gratefully, L.

Enjoyed going through your website. A stupendous effort.

My congratulations on your perseverance and dedication is inspiring.

I absolutely love your website! So much information and insight! I have learned a great deal from your well of knowledge.

Thank you immensely!!!

You also have a really charming voice

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 some 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 and constantly engaged.

Best wishes for success in your own astrology practice,

Sincerely, Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotisha

Thank you for helping me see the invisible. Thank you for the forgiveness page .

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!...

Thank you so much, Barbara! My husband and I savored the first hour of the reading last night. I will continue listening ...

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 or some other fixed medium. 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 and published in other media. (In addition to Jyotisha practice, I teach in a university linguistics dept.)

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.

Dear Barbara Pijan Lama, I am addicted to your website since I stumbled upon it a month ago. Considering the complexity of this science, the arrangement of the Jyotisha material in your website is commendable. A student of Vedic Astrology aged 42, from South India, I find your insights on the various planetary combinations very good. My salutations to you for your selfless dissemination of Jyotish knowledge through your website. With best regards -- MM

I loved the detailed articles on your site. They are very informative and I appreciate your hard work in compiling in all together.

... reading some of the topics on dharma and suffering has really helped me with some equanimity in my life for the past couple of weeks. Its helpful to know what we are here on this earth to learn.

Dear Mrs Barbara Pijan Lama,

Good morning from Calgary, Canada. I am an Indian astrological student last 23 years. I have read many books., practiced astrology , visited number of web sites. I find your web site the BEST and most informative. Your interpretations and meanings are superb and un imaginably supports awareness.

A: Namaste,

Thank you very much for your lovely compliments! I am delighted to know that you are enjoying the Jyotisha website and find the materials there to be useful in your study of the vidya.

It is a challenge for me to maintain the growing collection of materials, keep correcting mistakes, and write case study interpretations of public figures, along with my teaching schedule. I always wish there was more time to write! Yet, I am very happy to know that the site as it presently exists is indeed providing a helpful resource to students around the world.

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

Sincerely,

Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotisha

"... thank you so very much for your amazingly detailed reading. I listened to the reading on Wednesday evening immediately after receiving it....wow! Your incredibly deep knowledge of Jyotisha comes across in a very open, compassionate & humorous way. One does not feel after listening to your reading as though they have a whole bunch of "enemy" Graha orbiting, causing havoc. Before your reading I felt this way...I have been told that the Sun was a great enemy of mine ! "

Thank you for providing this nice website for us to visit and learn from.

I am not at all surprised that there are 30 readings ahead of me in your queue! I would imagine that the demand for your readings is quite high; considering your knowledge, insights, selected quotes, and even the jokes you use to drive home a point. It all shows an exceptional mind! Please add me to your queue and I will wait patiently (several months, I know) for delivery.

I'd like to thank you for the marvelous site which you have put up on Astrology. The reservoir of information forthcoming from you in that site is simply awesome. I visit it daily to read up and learn new things.

I just wanted to let you know that I am deeply grateful for the work you have put into your jyotish website. Making sense of all of this ancient mystic knowledge is truly a blessing, and your contribution to the world has been noted here in a sincere manner.

I've been studying jyotish for quite some time now, with many different teachers and sources, and your contribution of vidya to the jyotish realm of the collective consciousness that is the internet is unique, thorough, and refreshing.

The fractal nature of your website, reflects upon jyotish, upon reality, so beautiful... thanks

I've been reading your website since the last few weeks and must say that there isn't any other website that describes the effects of the different mahadasha/antardasha and planetary/house combinations with that accuracy. My knowledge of astrology has improved a lot, thanks to your website.

Bumping into your website is the best ever thing that happened to me as I learnt a lot about my Self and my religion. Thank you again!

Namaste Ms. Barbara,

I just now had cause to send a link to your wonderful Dharmic site to a friend I am having a discussion with about gemstones used for Jyotish and general evolutionary purposes... and it occurred to me that I really need to say *THANKS* !!! to you!!!

I have benefited from your website and your Wisdom. I study both Western and Vedic Astrology and must say your site has been the most inspiring, and the most accurate in the piecemeal approach I must take to analyzing my own nativity via Jyotish.

...I recently passed through the end of Shani Mahadasha and am in the first year of Mercury/Mercury and the blessings have been beyond anything I could have imagined ;-). Just wanted to send you Love & Thanks ;-) -- Namaste

Thank you very much for your splendid analysis of my horoscope. I've greatly enjoyed your reading and I must say that for someone who does not know me personally, some of your observations regarding the dilemmas inherent in my chart are remarkably accurate! It is indeed heartening to note that my destiny lies in serving those less privileged than myself. I hope that I will someday have the good fortune of manifesting my Uchcha Shani's DharmaKarmadipati yoga and its script of service just as you have predicted.

Once again, I am deeply grateful for your time and guidance in my quest for understanding my life purpose.

I am writing to thank you for such an amazing website.

Your website is not only a resource to know and learn astrology but also to use that knowledge to about oneself and perhaps about god. To know why we are here on this earth(spiritual beings having a human experience).

Topics on subconscious and psyche are really a new knowledge to me and probably the seed of this knowledge will help me answer my questions.

I have to say thanks for taking your time and I'm loving the website, my understanding is getting a lot better the more I practise with famous celebrity charts I can see the time lines and effects of dasa and bhukti (very very interesting)! (~~ yours from sunny Kuwait)

Pranam Barbara, Thank you for your kind wishes on my jyotisa studies. I am simply thrilled to have your valuable website available for reference.

Hi, just wanted to express my gratitude for your great informative site on Jyotisha. I was a Hindu monk for years, and studied astrology in my down time. Your interpretations helped me to see a modern view of everything, and helped to clarify much of the classic texts. Thank you!

I must congratulate you on the excellent compilation and the logical explanations given about various aspects of astrology. There are many sites, which directly give inferences (some accurate, some not so accurate), but so far, I have found only your site which gives a logical explanation, to various planetary formations in a horoscope. This gives an opportunity for people like us, to learn newer aspects, which wouldn't have been possible, if we just learn by rote about various planetary positions and their effects. I read your site, as often as I can, to keep learning about astrology.

I think what you do is wonderful. The information you provide was unattainable for many people like myself, who can't read the Sanskrit languages. With a bit of guidance and your helpful site, I've managed to enlighten myself, at least a little, with this field.

Every time I read your website I learn something new. I myself have interest in Jyotisha and I love analyses of various topics in your website.

Drawing reference to your webpage and the following section : www.barbarapijan.com/bpa/Yogas/interpreting_planetary_yoga_modern_life.htm

".....I do recommend Jyotisha study as a very engaging method of slowly developing a sense of wisdom and amusement about one's own chosen life :"

Wonderful thoughts, I share similar feelings as I think I am beginning to understand myself a bit better through Jyotisha. Thanks in general for spreading a more mature approach of Jyotisha to a wider audience.

Thanks for the insightful Gem analysis, Your wisdom and knowledge has helped me understand my own chart in a better way

I found your website on the internet two years ago and have been obsessed with it ever since. ...

Thank you so much for all of the information you've made available. I check your website daily. I love it.

I was blown away by the thoughtful, insightful and erudite information presented on your website.

Dear Barbara Ma,

First of all, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing valuable treasures of Jyotisha. Your intuition energized by years of meditation and trust in the Divine surely peeks through the writings :) . I am a student of this science when I started taking a course in South India (Tamilnadu). The articles on Rahu-Ketu are enlightening to begin with.. as I was able to personally relate with whatever is said there! A leap frog, sudden awakener, jump start, obsessive desire, over indulgent, palpitation of heart..true!

This mail is to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the fantastic and inspiring reading of my horoscope by you. ... impressed by your depth of knowledge, experience and the passion with which you give the reading. It was so interesting to listen to your reading. :) Listening to your reading, I felt you are in front of me and that you know me for a long time. :)

I appreciate your Jyotisha knowledge and wisdom and thank you for shining some light on my life.

I have been readiing the contents on your site for years.literally know every page .tremendous work.no maount of words can suffice the

work you have put together.i have read several books from sanjay rath,b.v.raman,jamini.but what i love about you is the beautiful non

judgemental way of outting together things.love your work on marriage and relationship.soo beautiful.thank god for people like you who

believe that real people fall in love with wrong partners but as long as we can move on it's not crime... Thank you love ________

Being a Jyotisha enthusiast/student I have been following your excellent site. I just want to congratulate you on maintaining and creating this excellent resource, which I think is unparalleled in the modern practice of Jyotisha across the world.
I hope you will keep up the good work and may God bless you with the power to keep posting many more insightful articles.

Your site has given me extraordinary insight into jyotishvidya and i often refer to it to clarify questions which occur to me. I have the greatest respect for the depth of your knowledge and profundity of interpretation.

Respected Pijanlama ji, Namastey

I am ... from Himachal Pradesh, India. I congratulate and appreciate YOU for bringing out such a highly transparent, thorough, comprensive and deep researched web site on Vedic Astrology..... producing such a portal reflects your honest, hardworking and SEWA approach for sharing knowledge, for the well being of common people. The material given in your portal is pure and extremely relevant.

Barbara,

I myself am an engineer and practice astrology as a hobby with a desire to learn. Your website and work has been very much appreciated at this end and the vast amount of information is invaluable to any student and learner of astrology.

God Bless

Your website is wonderful - I have visited many times, and read and re-read. I actually like reading the articles on philosophy more than those on astrology.

Thank you for the time and love you put into the reading.

dear guru maa,

may lord shiva bless you.Amongst various danas(gifts),the dana (gift)

of knowledge, wisdom is the most exalted and priceless.and the

knowledge i have gained from your pages has, on the one hand sharpened

my insights towards religion and philosophy in particular and life in

general. Metaphorically speaking,it was like gangajal.

to a parched throat. ... your two different approaches, namely

psycho-emotional and material reconciled my seemingly paradoxical

situation and beliefs.most importantly it has given me the most

recurrent yet most elusive of all objects namely faith and hope.....pranam once again...

(India)

i feel urs is amongst one of the few sites which simultaneously analyses different viewpoint regarding astrology ie vedic astrology, western and asian examples, making it what u call a broad spectrum analysis.i m a physician in delhi. with inclination to astrology.i have read and analysed quite a few literature for the last 15 years and currently ifind ur site quite interesting. just wish to thank u.

may lord shiva bless you.Amongst various danas(gifts),the dana (gift) of knowledge,wisdom is the most exalted and priceless.and the knowledge i have gained from your pages has,on the one hand sharpened my insights towards religion and philosophy in particular and life in general.metaphorically speaking,it was like gangajal to a parched throat.your two different approaches,namely psycho-emotional and material reconciled my seemingly paradoxical situation and beliefs.most importantly it has given me the most recurrent yet most elusive of all objects namely faith and hope...pranam once again

God Bless you, Barbara, and keep up the good work. I like your way of analysis and the heart and mind you put in your work.

Barbara,

I want to thank you for the amazing write-up you did on Rahu-Ketu-Chandra. I read the section on remedies for marriage problems. It helped me to understand what I am going through, and made me feel "understood." I appreciate your excellent command of the English language combined with your understanding of Jyotisha. May you be blessed for your contribution. Hare Krsna. Yours in the service of Lord Sri Krsna (from whom come all sciences, including the science of astrology),

Thank you for explaining a complex subject in an accessible manner. [Brunei]

Dear Ms. Pijan,

I would like to share with you my happiness for your interpretation of Shani Mahadasa on your Jyotish page.

Searching all over the internet, very few cover, or at least most cut and paste ideas, and then the same examples show up again and again. Your webpage is inspiring to take real knowledge (at least at the instance of Shani, from my reading) and show it as it is. It appears you have a great understanding of Jyotish, something many Pandits could learn from. Haha.

Of course, each interpretation can vary in many variations as their are seers present.

I am very grateful to God that I luckily found you ... Thank You so so much for putting up such an informative website.

Hats off to an awesome Jyotisha website. The information on your website has completely changed my outlook of things and I have learned to appreciate that whatever happens is for the highest good. I am completely addicted to your website and use it as a rescue to my emotional setbacks and to refer to it for learning Jyotisha and reading charts.

I offer my thanks to the source of all sources operating within you for providing me an insight to my questions. Thank you for your kind wishes and response. Sarve janah sukhino bhavantu!!

I have never noticed anybody else write about astrology with so much depth and intuition about human condition than you. Thank you.

Right now, I am going through an unexpected and really tormenting phase of life and learning Jyotisha has somewhat lessened my pains and helped in concentrating my negative energy into something divine and positive for life. Your articles on 'Dealing with emotions' and 'Guilt & Grief' energies were really inspiring during this time. Your metaphysical explanations for these are really awesome.

To: a kind donor who helped with operating expenses for the website:

Thanks very much for your kind donation! Your generosity helps to keep the website available to students around the world. I often receive email from students in countries where no Jyotisha books are available, and they say that internet resources like barbarapijan.com are the only access they have to Jyotisha materials. Thank you for helping to support them and to build a community of Jyotisha practitioners worldwide. With much appreciation for your kindness,

Sincerely, Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotisha

the donor responds:

I will try to contribute as and when i can, as i have been reading your site for a long time now and have learned a lot. I am a total newbie in front of this vast world of knowledge and your expertise. ...

Namaste and greetings from India. I have been an avid follower of your site for the last 2 years and have found it invaluable not only in terms of the knowledge flowing out of the Vedic tradition but a life changer in terms of the introspection and reflection that it evokes in regard to multiple facets of existence. In fact, your gift to me has been the growth of a deep unshakeable faith and optimism in Divinity and its myriad ways which creates a feeling of reverence and makes one stoic. At times, it does seem that my flow of thoughts at a particular point of time find reflection in the different hues of your expression here. I have become decidedly more intuitive and deeper in my thinking after I became a regular visitor to your site.

I am long time admirer of your work. I love the simplicity and eloquence of your writing. I have spent long hours pouring over your meticulous research and find your presentation of different sources and views for each subject enriching.

Thank you for the tremendous knowledge that you have put together at your Web Site. I try to read and learn as much as time allows me to from where-ever I can and it is one of the best resources that I have come across to help enhance my understanding of the subject. I do hope that you continue to enhance the site.

On Guru Purnima I pray:

The Guru is the Lord Brahma, Vishnu and Siva

Guru is the Supreme Absolute Itself

My obeisance to the blessed Guru

My students and I have benefitted a lot from you and your site on Vedic Jyotisha.

God bless you.

"Your feedback on my questions always elevates my understanding. Your responses take my questions to a higher level. For example your response to my question about coincidence between [wearing a particular gemstone] and [the pleasant behavior of a relative] is very enlightening. This response alone tells me clearly that whatever is happening - perceived good or bad - is me channeling them via people and events around me. It puts the responsibility of everything in my world right in my lap - makes me feel responsible and not just at the receiving end of circumstances - how liberating :-)"

Thank you for your extraordinary website. I an truly grateful to you for taking the time to explain, in crisp detail, your understanding of the Vedic perspective.

Thanks for being a beacon of light and i think that the vidya of Jyotish burns bright in you....

thanks for sharing and writing such information...

Hi, I love your website! Is there a way to see a list of links to your sample readings and charts of famous people?

Namaste and Thanks very much for your compliments! The two pages that can serve as index lists of all the pages for public figures = Chandra in 12 rashi and Chandra in 12 bhava .Whenever I write up a new public-figure reading, I add a page link to both of these pages.

Best wishes for your success in Jyotisha studies, Sincerely, Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotisha

I have always admired your website and learnt a lot from it. It is a huge store of knowledge and in fact, it's biggest source of jyotish knowledge online. Congrats to you and May God bless you with more good health, happiness and peace to continue your helping others.

I have consulted a number of astrologers in the past and have spent an immense time on studying Jyotish astrology, all in the hope of gaining self-knowledge and a deeper understanding of my purpose in this life. In this regard, I am very pleased to have come across the abundance of knowledge on your website as well as - and perhaps more importantly - a fine reading by yourself. I thank you for taking the time to offer a thorough reading based on a refined intuitive knowledge and positive spirit." ~~ London

I must comment on your intro and explanations of

~ Guilt and Grief ~

What a lovely way to express such difficult and disruptive hindrances in life

I will cherish this information forever!

THANK YOU AGAIN!

thank you so much for sharing your knowledge so openly with everyone. Your site is of great help to anyone trying to understand the principles and application of Jyotish.

I just love your website. I can see so much of love you have poured into the pages. Its very informative and the best part is that unlike other astrologers your's is a guidance in the big picture (our spiritual journey). Thanks for sharing it so well.