Greetings!
Welcome to the May 2011 Issue of the Jyotish Star. We look forward to bringing you our online publication that will meet your needs when it comes to a Vedic astrological publication.
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Featured Astrologer
 Swami Sitaramananda is our Jyotish Star of the month.
Swami Sitaramananda Saraswati
I met Swami Vishnudevananda, my Guru, the founder of Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers and ashrams 30 years ago, in 1981 in Val Morin, Quebec Canada and fell in love with Yoga since then. Swamiji initiated me as a sannyasi in 1985 and as acharya in 1989. I have been working in the ashrams since that time and was sent to San Francisco to direct the Center there in 1989. Also I have been director and spiritual teacher of Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm in Grass Valley, CA for 16 years. It is during my time in San Francisco that I started the study of Jyotish. I was attending one of the first Jyotish conferences of ACVA in the Bay area.
Christina
Yes, lovely. I remember first meeting you there in a small group learning with the great Astrologer, K.N. Rao!
Swami Sita
I grew up in Vietnam and left to study in the University in Quebec, Canada when I was 18. I believe that I was destined to meet the Guru in Canada as consciously I had not chosen to go to Canada. I was born with a Hindu name Sita, given by my mother, without understanding the meaning of my name till I met Swamiji when I was 28 and recognized my Indian/Hindu origin. I went to India yearly for 18 years to teach yoga in our Ashram. Then, I learned that Vietnam was a Hindu country for a thousand years.
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Vedic View  Changing from the end of the zodiac to a new beginning in Aries - many of the transiting planets are in Aries now. Aries, our baby of the zodiac, who expresses on earth much as a seven year old, "Mommy, are we there yet? How come I can't have my ice cream before my vegetables?" now rules the day! Aries rules the joyful nature of a child, as well as the petulant, ego centered nature of a new being. Aries rules war, exploration, muscles and medicine, passion and leadership. With Jupiter now there for a year - we can expect focus on "youthing," such as diets, working out at the gym, increased exercise, and emotionality expressing with a shorter fuse. Happily the Sun now moves into Taurus, lessening the heat, and soon Venus will move towards Taurus as well softening the Pitta conditions.
Read More: http://www.jyotishstar.com/vedic-view-may-2011.html
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Planetary Tips
We begin mid May with the ingress of the Sun into Taurus moving towards conjunction with Ketu, debilitated in Taurus.
Jupiter just beginning its transit in its friend's sign of Aries, has gained over a degree of arc, so we will be soon seeing more of this fiery influence. It travels in close conjunction to Venus, Mercury, and its ruler Mars, all in the nakshatra of Ashwini, represented as the twin physicians. Note, that this is Ketu's star, and that Ketu (along with Rahu, who is always opposite and in the same degree) is transiting in debilitation, in sandi degree of 29�34 having just changed signs.
Experiences will be a bit better as Venus moves towards Taurus, and the nakshatra Bharani, which Venus rules.
See Charts & Read More: As the planets move -
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2011 Eclipses
Eclipses occur at new moon and full moon. Simply put, occurring when one of the luminaries, either the Sun or the Moon is with one of the nodes, either Rahu the north, or ascending node or Ketu the south or descending node. A solar eclipse occurs with a new moon, a lunar eclipse with a full moon.
The December total lunar eclipse will be five minutes long and the astrological community has been focused on this all year. (more on that in November's issue of the Jyotish Star.) A solar eclipse, of course occurs where it is daylight, and can be seen by those, in daytime, who are under the eclipse's path. In contrast, a lunar eclipse is seen, at night, by everyone who is experiencing nighttime! Both have strong energetic effects, and both are considered a time good for meditation, inner work, and prayer.
The total lunar eclipse on June 15th will appear in night skies over Africa, Australia and the southern or central part of Asia. It will be a very dark eclipse --we had an eclipse in July of 2000 that was similarly total. The Moon moves just in front of the central part of the earth's shadow. The total phase of this eclipse will last just over an hour and a half! (100 minutes) One of the longest and darkest in history. It begins with the prenumbral eclipse at 17:24:37 UT and prenumbral ending at 23:00:41
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Letters to the Editor
Thirteen signs? Wrong Zodiac?
What changed in 2009?
We don't have 13 signs. There are 27 signs and they are called Nakshatras, they reside outside, and in the distant background, of each of the other 12, Aries through Pisces. The supposed 13th sign is a constellation with maybe a toe into Scorpio and it falls just at the cusp between Scorpio and Sagittarius. Its influence has been well noted through history, and is accounted for in Tropical and Sidereal systems, with the use of Decanates (one third of a sign) and in Vedic Astrology with Drekkanas (one third of a sign). The portion at the end of Scorpio is the last Drekkana - which has a different Scorpio interpretation than the earlier two Drekkanas. Read More
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