Om astamurtipriyaya namaha – Salutations to the One who is the beloved of Shiva and all his forms. Ashta meaning eight, we examine (briefly) the eight forms of Lord Shiva.
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108 Names of the Moon: Chandra Ashtottara Shatanamavali #21
Month: September 2020
Ashwina Adhika Purnima – Full Moon October 2020
Ashwina Adhika Purnima tells that the October Full Moon occurs within the extra month that the Vedic calendar inserts from time to time. This Adhika Masam is from September 18, 2020 to October 16, 2020 as per North Indian Calendar. This Adhika Month is dedicated to Lord Krishna. The Full Moon (Purnima) is for both Ashwina and Adhika months.
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Advice received about ‘Emergency Meditations’
A call has been sent out to followers of a discipline connected to Flower of Life to take up ’emergency meditations’ due conjunctions and aspects between certain planets. The planets are perceived as troublesome in nature, and thus, need to be ‘appeased’ and the Earth must be ‘protected’ by ’emergency meditation’ using the Flower of Life. As we are Vedic astrologers, we will have a ‘glance’ at these claims, a small, vedanga-in-nature (limb of the vedas) glance (drishti) as we look to these planets.
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Peyarchi: Rahu and Ketu change signs
Rahu and Ketu, the two shadow planets, have changed signs. This is called peyarchi in Sanskrit. While the planets are weak at this degree, this transit, this changing of signs will have both personal and mundane effects – on individuals and on countries.
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108 Names of the Moon: Chandra Ashtottara Shatanamavali #20
108 Names of the Moon: Chandra Ashtottara Shatanamavali #19
Om pustimate namaha – Salutations to the One who who increases nourishment and prosperity.
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Adhika Masam – The Extra Month
The concept of Adhika Masa is unique to the traditional Hindu lunar calendars. In 2020 Hindu calendar, there is an Adhika Masam or Adhik Masa or an extra month. This Adhika Masa is from September 18, 2020 to October 16, 2020 as per North Indian Calendar. This Adhika Month is dedicated to Lord Krishna.
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108 Names of the Moon: Chandra Ashtottara Shatanamavali #18
Om dustaduraya namaha – Salutations to the One who is far from the taint of wickedness. We should flee wickedness whenever it presents itself to us. We should adore God and abhor sin.
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Mars the Warrior goes Retrograde.
In this compelling time leading up to the US Election, and the return of Earth and its inhabitants to Covid-normal amidst a season of climate change and billowing wildfires, we have the warrior planet Mars stationing (at present) and turning retrograde September 9 to November 13. Mars turns retrograde every 22 months.
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