Chinese New Year in 2020 is on Saturday, the 25th of January (25/01/2020).
According to the Chinese 12-year animal zodiac cycle, the Chinese year beginning in 2020 is the year of the Rat. Each Chinese zodiac year begins on Chinese New Year’s Day.
Karma is irrevocable, whether you like it or not, it heralds you through a maze of impediments, joys, howlers, achievements, humiliating situations, etc.
You may be tired of needless and fruitless journeys. You almost become a neurotic, through overbearing sisters or brothers. Often you overestimate intentions of your friends and get into an awkward position. Opportunists call you a coward! Your hissing and groans are heard on the other side of the phone. Your well wishers play with your pride and prestige! The killjoy tenant on ground floor warns you of that stench emanating from your toilet right on his head?
First stop on the soul’s trip was the Halls of Ma’ati, where the dead person’s heart would be weighed on a two-armed scale of the kind used in Ancient Egypt for weighing gold and jewels.
Ma’ati meant Double Ma’at — double not in the evil-twin sense of “double,” but in the times-two sense — double strength. As for Ma’at, she was a goddess, sometimes pictured as two goddesses, or a pair of twins — teenage twins, with wings on their shoulders and ostrich feathers in their headdresses.
She was one of the presiding deities at the weighing of the heart, the others being jackal-headed Anubis, who did the actual weighing, and ibis-headed Thoth, moon god and thus, in a society that used the lunar calendar, the god of time. He was also the god of measurements and numbers and astronomy and engineering skills, and in addition he was a supernatural scribe or clerk. In heart-weighing scenes, he’s often shown with his wax tablet at the ready and his stylus poised, just as a scribe would have been present at a real-life gold-weighing to record the results.
The constellation is Libra, the scales or balance, and as a present-day zodiac sign it rules from September 23 to October 22. One explanation of its name is that it rises at the time of the autumnal equinox, when the day and the night are of equal length, a balance being a device for determining equivalents. A more questionable interpretation is that it appeared at harvest time, when farmers were weighing their produce for marketing purposes.
WE OFTEN speak of nine planets and we have the mantras and stotras for the nine planets. In Sanskrit the word graha means a planet which has a gravitational pull (Graha), the power to attract. The constellations of our zodiac are called Nakshatras. The others are called stars (tara). What are the nine planets ? The Sun is a star, not a planet. As the “Aditya Hridaya” taught by Agastya to Sri Rama observes: Nakshatra graha taranam adhipah.
Sunsets, walks, talks, drives in the countryside, holding hands candle-light dinners, soft music. It’s all part of romance. Just the sound of the word rouses hopes and recalls memories. There is a longing for romance in most of us. After romance, the logical progression is to love. Above all else, that’s what we call desire – to love and to be loved.
What are the astrological factors for love and romance ?
1. If the 7th house be occupied by Venus or aspected by Venus, the native assumes love is a feeling, a tingling emotion. Moreover, he feels, it is a physical attraction for a member of the opposite sex. His/her perception of love and romance comes from music, novels, television or movies. Sometimes he says, the portrayed romance of the silver screen is a far cry from the responsibilities of real life.
2. If the 7th house is occupied by Sun or aspected by Sun – then the native says, love is thoughtfulness, concern, sensitivity to the need of another. With this combinations – young man and woman begin to see each other and become romantically attracted it often follows, they start to tell each other, I love you. And he lust after her. But the truth of the matter is, that is what so much young love is lust. It is self- ingratiating. It is for one’s own sexual pleasure.
3. True love grows when 7th house is occupied by Mars or is aspected by Mars. Growing love was once expressed sin the words of popular song, ‘I love your more today than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow”.
4. Great love of act is indicated by Moon – in the 7th house. With this factor he or she moves tears and appeared to be very much in love. He had taken her as his wife to care for her – to love her.
5. Happier marriages or stronger families can be produced by Jupiter in 7th house or if it is aspected by the same planet. With this combination real love is concern and action towards other all of the time – not just in one time heroic act.
Besides astrological factors, what are the powerful words ?
When the singing, dancing and excitement of such a life style subsides, there is nothing left. Unhappiness and sorrow are the only lasting fruits of romance without love. In order to find love, you first have to be giving love. When you really love others, your time, thoughts, energies and efforts are directed towards them. This is the living and dynamic law.
(Courtesy: “Planets & Forecast”, Dec., 1989.)
by L R Chawdhri
In day-to-day life we find that some persons disturb you, attract you, hate you or annoy you for no reasons. So question arises why people should have such impact on you. Let us analyse this question in a methodical way through astrology.
Mutual harmony between two persons of the same sex, opposite sex, partners and in couples or lovers determines mutual attraction, harmony and adaptability between the two and can be checked astrologically through their horoscopes by the analysis of their Sun and Moon signs and their Ascendants.
Sun Signs (Nirayana System)
1. Aries Sun Signs will have harmonious relations with persons having Leo and Sagittarius Sun Sign and likewise.
2. Taurus with Capricorn, Virgo or Cancer.
3. Gemini with Aquarius or Libra.
4. Cancer with Pisces, Scorpio or Taurus.
5. Leo with Sagittarius or Aries.
6. Virgo with Capricorn or Taurus.
7. Libra with Aquarius or Gemini.
8. Scorpio with Cancer and Pisces.
9. Sagittarius with Aries, Leo and Sagittarius.
10. Capricorn with Taurus, Virgo and Libra.
11. Aquarius with Aries, Gemini and Libra.
12. Pisces with Cancer, Virgo and Scorpio.
by Maitreyee
Are you beautiful ? What does your mirror say ? Perhaps you have a beautiful face but your shoulder stoops. That can really detract from your looks. Or your teeth ? Do they need to be straightened ? Well, if you are in your teens, that can be done. But what if you are past thirty-five ?
Stop worrying about your physical drawbacks. Instead learn to highlight your plus points and overcome your drawbacks. Depending upon your Ascendant you are bound to have something good somewhere in your appearance. Identify it and set about emphasizing that.
by R M Banerjee
Delayed marriage is one of the most pressing problems which riddles the modern society of India. Whatever be the social, economic, educational and demographic reasons behind this malaise, there is no denial of the fact that practicing astrologers and columnists in astrological magazine are being continuously pestered with questions from anxious parents who are very eager to see their sons and daughters matrimonially settled in life. When eligible young boys and girls, in spite of their best efforts, fail to get suitable match for them, they rush to astrologers out of desperation for relief and advice.
In this small article, an attempt has been made to show, with the help of practical examples that Saturn is the main planet behind most of the cases on delayed marriages. Though there may be other planets playing their roles in this specific context are more or less of contributory nature aggravating the basic trend set by Saturn in a birth chart.
During the last few years while concentrating on study of medical astrology, some details have been collected by me from different sources which are useful considering family planning by astrology and have been penned down in this article.