This chart is in the shape of a yantra (a mystical diagram), with diamond-shaped houses. The Ascendant (known as the Lagna in Sanskrit) is always located at the top central position of the chart. The houses are read counter-clockwise from the Ascendant. In this diagram, H2 indicates the 2nd house, H3 the 3rd house, and so on. The arrows indicate the direction in which the houses are read. Since the Lagna is always set for this format, the typical North Indian chart will have numbers in each house to show what sign of the zodiac resides in that house. The zodiacal sign that is rising is indicated by a number from 1 to 12: Number 1 is Aries, 2 is Taurus, 3 is Gemini, etc. through each of the 12 houses. Thus, if number 3 is in the Lagna, Gemini is rising and is assigned to House 1, Cancer to House 2, Leo to House 3. All North Indian charts are read like this, and the birth chart is typically shown to the left or above the Navamsha, the 9th harmonic chart.
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How to read a South Indian chart
South Indian Chart
In this square chart the 12 zodiacal signs (known as Rashis in Sanskrit) are always in the same squares. The Dual signs are in the four corners. Pisces is always in the upper left hand corner, followed directly by Aries, then Taurus, and Gemini in the upper right hand corner. Virgo is in the lower right hand corner, Sagittarius in the lower left. The signs and houses are read clockwise around the zodiac. The Ascendant can be in any one of these 12 signs, and the planets distributed according to where they are in the heavens. All South Indian charts are read like this, and the birth chart is typically shown to the left or above the Navamsha (the 9th harmonic chart.)
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Saturn Enters Pisces at Vedic New Year 2025
By Edith Hathaway © 2025
Vedic New Year 2025 began March 29, 2025 and runs through March 19, 2026. It is both dramatic and full of hope. This date occurs annually with the last New Moon in Pisces prior to the Sun entering Aries. (All planetary positions are sidereal zodiac, Lahiri ayanamsha.) Vedic New Year 2025 was not only a Partial Lunar eclipse at 14°47’ Pisces, but coincided closely (within 5 ¼ hours) of Saturn’s entry into sidereal Pisces. Tr. Saturn spends an average of 2.3 years per sign, so was last in Pisces on April 18, 1998. Continue reading
High Stakes Diplomacy during Venus in Pisces
By Edith Hathaway © 2025
Venus is the planet of diplomacy. I have long maintained that there is no one planet of peace. Even if Mars is the planet of war, Venus is too passionate about having a certain version of a harmonious outcome. Even so, there is a better chance of a different outcome, one that satisfies all participants with Venus currently transiting through sidereal Pisces, its sign of exaltation: Jan. 28 to May 31, 2025. (All planetary positions are in the sidereal zodiac, Lahiri ayanamsha.)
Censorship Enforcers Attack Defenders of Free Speech: Elon Musk & Pavel Durov
By Edith Hathaway © 2024
As we march rapidly towards arguably the most consequential Presidential election in U.S. history on Nov. 5, 2024, we observe the specter of totalitarianism closing in around us, notably in the form of censorship as an accepted way of life in the Western world. Closely intertwined is the sense that U.S. elections are no longer fair or secure. There is much evidence to confirm this fact, including now the threat of non-citizens voting in our elections, no voter ID of any kind required in 14 states (including CA and NY), and millions of non-citizens being intentionally flooded into the U.S. since Jan. 2021 – a veritable state-sponsored invasion. Most recently, over 430,00 convicted criminals were released into the U.S., and the first-ever non-citizen has now become law enforcement in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Do we remember this is how the Roman Empire went down? (See Elon Musk’s new 2-minute ad released Sept. 15, 2024.) Continue reading
Jupiter Speaks – The Turning of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
By Edith Hathaway © 2024
“Many people were shocked that you endorsed Trump, but I was not shocked, because for all the areas where you disagree on specific issues, there’s a consistent theme which I’ve noticed in both of your lives where you’ve both spent the majority of your life – in your case, your whole life – in the American ruling class. And both of you decided that it was corrupt, and that you were going to say so out loud, at great risk to both of you. So it was probably just a matter of time before you aligned in some way.”
Tucker Carlson to RFK, Jr. on Aug. 26, 2024 during Kennedy’s first interview after his announcement suspending his campaign.
The Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024 = Vedic New Year 2024
By Edith Hathaway © 2024
The Total Solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 has been called the Great North American Eclipse, as its path runs through Mazatlan in northeastern Mexico up through Texas and 14 other states in the U.S. before reaching Newfoundland in northeastern Canada. This year it also coincides with Vedic New Year, which is the last New Moon in Pisces prior to the Sun entering the sign of Aries (all in the sidereal zodiac, Lahiri ayanamsha). Its Sanskrit name is the Chaitra Shukla Pratipada.
The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
By Edith Hathaway © 2024
[UPDATE: On July 21, 2024 Joe Biden stepped down from his run for the presidency and endorsed his Vice President Kamala Harris as the new Democratic Party Presidential candidate. My prediction of a Trump victory has not changed in the larger sense that I expect to see the Globalists be defeated in this election, and they will fight against that outcome tooth and nail. I have predicted this larger trend change away from Globalism and towards Nationalist/ Populism in my article, The Long View of 2024. Harris represents the Globalist vantage point as much if not more so than Biden. She supports Open Borders, the war in Ukraine and proxy wars in general, censorship of free speech, de-criminalization of drugs, defunding the police, packing the U.S. Supreme Court, and generally diminishing the rights and freedoms of citizens as guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Globalists have openly stated that “nation-states no longer work.” This means that the Harris-Walz team believe that Globalist organizations such as the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, NATO and the European Union should have more sway over American citizens, their rights and freedoms than any officials that American citizens may vote for in our elections.] Continue reading
The Long View of 2024
& Why 2020 is Still the Pivot Point of Our Times
By Edith Hathaway © 2024
“There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen.” Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924
We are currently in one of those very intense, accelerated times to which Lenin refers. But we should not be surprised, considering the power and significance of Dec. 2020 as the pivot point halfway into a 120-year period when the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction cycles predominate in sidereal EARTH signs. And when a JU-SA conjunction year is that significant astrologically, the 4 to 5 years surrounding it are also highly significant. Coincidentally, NASA reports that the Solar maximum cycle is nearing its 11-year high in 2024. It is arriving sooner than expected and will last longer than expected. Continue reading
Matthew Perry & Tucker Carlson: Two Approaches to Addiction (Part 2)
By Edith Hathaway © 2023
The senses (horses) desire pleasurable things. The mind (reins) is not exercising restraint on the senses (horses). The intellect (charioteer) submits to the pull of the reins (mind). So in the materially bound state, the bewildered soul does not direct the intellect in the proper direction.
Chapter 3, Verse 43 – Bhagavad Gita
In the Vedic chart the mind is viewed from the Moon, which is considered much more important in Eastern philosophy and astrology than the Sun. Thus, the study of the Moon-ruled Cancer Ascendant chart provides an excellent opportunity to observe the workings of the Moon, as ruler over the both the physical and emotional realms. As the Bhagavad Gita reminds us, only the mind can rein in the senses. The charioteer cannot be successful otherwise, nor the soul. Continue reading
Matthew Perry – A Lifelong Battle with Saturn (Part 1)
By Edith Hathaway © 2023
On Saturday afternoon Oct. 28, 2023, the 54-yr. old American actor, Matthew Perry, died suddenly of an apparent drowning or heat stroke in his jacuzzi in Pacific Palisades, CA. His death occurred very close to the time of the exact Lunar eclipse at 1:24 pm Pacific time at 10:57 Aries (sidereal zodiac). The eclipse in turn was within a few degrees of a very pivotal planetary pattern in his chart, natal Saturn debilitated in Aries opposite natal Moon in Libra, as we shall soon discuss. Continue reading
Tucker Carlson – Truth-Teller in a Time of Lies
By Edith Hathaway © 2023
By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Tucker Carlson, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=129626715
Prime time TV host Tucker Carlson and Fox News “parted ways” suddenly and officially on Monday morning, April 24, 2023. This set in motion an earthquake reaction across the American media landscape. Carlson was informed just ten minutes before the brief announcement was made on Fox News. His nightly news show Tucker Carlson Tonight had been running on Rupert Murdoch’s news outlet since its debut Nov. 16, 2016 and had reached dizzying heights of popularity for a cable news show, his audience reaching numbers greater than his competitors combined. CNN fired TV host Don Lemon the same day, but Carlson’s departure is far more consequential. His message and his popularity were still exploding, while Lemon’s had already cratered. Continue reading
Valentine’s Day Tribute: James H. Wilson,
Oct. 29, 1936 – Jan. 27, 2023
By Edith Hathaway © 2023
Jim Wilson and I celebrated our 25th anniversary on Jan. 1st, 2023. We had a common-law marriage for 25 wonderful years until he passed away on Jan. 27, 2023. His departure from this earth plane is still a huge loss – including on this first Valentine’s Day without him. Continue reading
Revelations of Saturn’s Last Passage Thru Capricorn
By Edith Hathaway © 2022
“If the foundation be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?”
Psalm 11: Verse 3
Saturn finally exits the sign of Capricorn on Jan. 17, 2023 (7:33 am Eastern time) after nearly three years in the sign. Saturn is at the height of its powers business-wise in Capricorn, with the ability to harness business acumen and creativity to produce unprecedented wealth and power. This is its positive side, but in the all-important 20-year cyclical conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter – a key political/economic/social indicator – Jupiter is overwhelmed and weakened by Saturn in Capricorn more than in any other sign, since Capricorn is owned by Saturn and also is the sign of Jupiter’s debilitation. Continue reading
Jupiter Dasha – A Study in Contrasts
By Edith Hathaway © 2022
Jupiter Dasha can vary radically, even for the same Ascendant chart. In this study we compare the charts of two individuals, each with Scorpio Ascendant, focusing in particular on the Jupiter Vimshottari Dasha. Both are famous people who achieved a high degree of accomplishment, celebrity and long-lasting reputation in the field of music: George Gershwin, composer, pianist, orchestrator, conductor; and Maria Callas, opera singer.
Catherine Engelbrecht – Founder of True the Vote
Catherine Engelbrecht is prominent in the news recently because of the documentary 2000 Mules, which made its international debut on May 2, 2022. It was her organization True the Vote (founded Nov. 30, 2009) – partnering with election investigation analyst Gregg Phillips – that provided the source material for this important exposé on election fraud in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. Continue reading
The Canada Story Continued
To read about the first part of the Canada story regarding the Freedom Convoy, its arrival in Ottawa Jan. 29, 2022, and events following that up to Feb. 13, 2022 click here. This current article covers a few important events from early on Feb. 14, 2022 for the next two weeks.
As his Valentine’s Day gesture to the Canadian truckers’ Freedom Convoy, Prime Minister Trudeau invoked The Emergencies Act, also known as a War Measures Act. With this he aimed to shut down the Freedom Convoy once and for all. Continue reading
All Eyes on Canada – the Epicenter for “the Fight of our Lives”
“The main purpose [of the Globalists] is to gain full and complete control over all of us…. This involves [their] control over the completely looted financial system, … the destruction of small to middle size businesses, … population control, or eugenics, with a massive reduction of the population … But it also requires in their view the deliberate destruction of democracy, of the rule of law, and of our constitutions through chaos, Continue reading
The Upcoming 30-day Venus-Mars Planetary War
By Edith Hathaway© 2022
A 30-day Planetary War (Graha Yuddha) between tr. Venus and tr. Mars brings a Venus-Mars effect that lingers well beyond Valentine’s Day. And though the conquest of hearts and minds is implied, it is not just the passion of love and sex that is aroused, but the passion and urgency to take action when it appears that all else has failed. Even the Chinese New Year on Feb. 1st highlights themes of power and rebellion at the start of the Year of the Tiger. Continue reading