Self-knowledge
The lagna and the Moon show how a life tends to begin and to feel. Naming a bhava can make a foggy worry smaller — work, home, study, partnership. The chart is a map; the person remains the person.
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Astrologer's Corner
The Ashram keeps several astrologers. Astrologer Arko is the one we introduce here — sit with the map of time.
Jyotish
Astrologer Arko
The Ashram has several astrologers. Astrologer Arko is the one named on this page, so a guest knows whom to ask for first.
Jyotish — the limb of Veda that watches the lights — is an old Indian way of naming time. The janma kundali is a snapshot of grahas against rashis and nakshatras at birth. Arko sits with that map and with your question.
Write birth date, time and place if you have them; they stay in the message. He answers on the telephone or email you leave. Please call before travelling so the Ashram can welcome you and confirm the day’s sitting.
There is also a public Vedic horoscope tool on this site, for study of Lagna, rashi, nakshatra and a written sketch. A human reading with Arko is a conversation of guidance.
What a sitting can help you hold
Timing
Vimshottari dasha is a 120-year necklace of graha periods. Gochara watches those same grahas as they move now. Together they show when a theme is loud, so you can walk with care.
Muhurta
A muhurta is a chosen slice of panchanga — tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga, karana — for a beginning. Ask about a date. Please call so the Ashram can welcome you and confirm the day's programme.
A heavy season
When life is loud, a chart can name which house is speaking. Prayer may sit beside care. For illness, see a qualified clinician.
Family questions
Partnership, children, and elders appear as bhavas and karakas in classical hora. A sitting unfolds the question; each family member keeps their own yes.
Study first
The public kundali tool lets you see Lagna, Moon rashi and nakshatra pada before you speak. Treat it as a primer in Jyotish language, then write to Arko if you want a human reading.
Ancient methods
Jyotisha is named among the six Vedangas — the limbs that serve Veda — beside kalpa, siksha, nirukta, chandas and vyakarana. It is older as a sky-and-calendar craft than as a newspaper horoscope.
North-Indian hora most often walks with Maharishi Parashara: the twelve rashis from Mesha to Meena, twelve bhavas from tanu to vyaya, nine grahas (Surya, Chandra, Mangala, Budha, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Rahu, Ketu), twenty-seven nakshatras with four padas each, and the Vimshottari dasha. Jaimini (karakamsha, chara dasha) and Tajika (annual charts, aspects counted in degrees) are other public streams. This page does not claim which stream a given sitting with Arko will use.
The public tool on this site sketches a nirayana — sidereal — chart. The ayanamsha is the offset between the tropical and sidereal zodiacs; treat the machine as study, not as an official ayanamsha of the Ashram.
The technical language of a chart
Lagna and twelve bhavas
Lagna is the rashi rising on the eastern horizon at the birth minute. It becomes the first house. The twelve bhavas then count the life: body, wealth, siblings, home, children, enemies and disease, partnership, longevity, dharma, karma, gains, and loss.
Nine grahas
Surya, Chandra, Mangala, Budha, Guru, Shukra, Shani, and the shadow nodes Rahu and Ketu. Dignity, combustion, retrogression, and house-lordship are the usual grammar. No graha is worshipped or cursed on this webpage.
Twenty-seven nakshatras
Each nakshatra spans 13°20′ of the sidereal ecliptic and has four padas of 3°20′. The Moon’s nakshatra at birth is the seed of Vimshottari dasha. Pada also hints at navamsha.
Vimshottari dasha
A 120-year sequence: Ketu 7, Shukra 20, Surya 6, Chandra 10, Mangala 7, Rahu 18, Guru 16, Shani 19, Budha 17. Mahadasha, antardasha and pratyantara are nested clocks. They time a theme; they do not print a verdict.
Gochara and aspects
Gochara is the sky today laid over the birth map. Parashari drishti is counted in signs — Saturn sees 3 and 10, Mars 4 and 8, Jupiter 5 and 9, besides the 7th. Tajika counts degrees. Ask which grammar a sitting will use; this page does not freeze it.
Panchanga
Five limbs of the day: tithi (lunar day), vara (weekday), nakshatra, yoga, karana. The Ashram calendar on this site shows Bisuddha Siddhanta panjika beside a separate Ashram overlay. Confirm living hours by telephone.
Ask Arko
Astrologer Arko
Telephone or email Astrologer Arko to request his paid personal consultation in Astrologer's Corner. Please call so the Ashram can welcome you and confirm the day's programme. The free automated horoscope tool on this site is a separate study room for Lagna, rashi and nakshatra.
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