https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog Articles on astrology and Vastu, each carrying at least one observation from thirty years of hand-kept records. en-IN Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/numerology-and-lucky-numbers https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/numerology-and-lucky-numbers Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology A separate discipline that borrowed astrology’s vocabulary. What it can reasonably claim, and why I will not tell you to respell your name. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/free-kundli-apps-and-ai-astrology https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/free-kundli-apps-and-ai-astrology Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology The calculation is the easy half, and the software does it better than I do by hand. The trouble is everything the software does immediately afterwards. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/is-astrology-a-science https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/is-astrology-a-science Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology I am asked this by sceptics, and by believers wanting ammunition. The answer is the same for both, and it is not the one either group expects. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/rudraksha-what-is-actually-true https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/rudraksha-what-is-actually-true Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology A genuine tradition wrapped in a marketplace of fakes and invented grades. How to tell the two apart, and what a bead was ever meant to do. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/nazar-evil-eye-and-astrology https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/nazar-evil-eye-and-astrology Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology Almost always raised at the very end of a consultation, in a lowered voice. What I actually think, and why the answer is not simply “no”. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/pitra-dosh-explained https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/pitra-dosh-explained Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology A word that has drifted a long way from what it originally described, and now arrives with a price list attached. What is genuinely in the chart, and what was added later. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/panchang-tithi-nakshatra-yoga-karana https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/panchang-tithi-nakshatra-yoga-karana Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology Five numbers that describe a day. What each limb measures, which of them matter for what, and how to stop being frightened by rahu kaal. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/grahan-eclipse-what-to-do https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/grahan-eclipse-what-to-do Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology Every eclipse brings a fresh crop of warnings, a good many of them invented within living memory. What the tradition actually asks, and what it never said. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/jupiter-transit-guru-gochar https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/jupiter-transit-guru-gochar Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology The one transit people look forward to, and therefore the one most easily oversold to them. What a year of Jupiter genuinely does, read from where it lands. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/raj-yoga-in-kundli https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/raj-yoga-in-kundli Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology Almost every chart has one. What the combination technically is, why the word carries far more weight than it earns, and what actually decides whether it does anything. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/children-in-the-chart-fifth-house https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/children-in-the-chart-fifth-house Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology The consultation where the most harm is done in my trade. What the fifth house genuinely covers, what it cannot settle, and when medicine is the honest answer. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/foreign-settlement-yoga-kundli https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/foreign-settlement-yoga-kundli Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology The twelfth house is not a departure gate. What the chart genuinely says about distance and displacement, and why the timing matters far more than the yoga. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/which-career-suits-my-chart https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/which-career-suits-my-chart Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology Charts do not name job titles, and anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing. What a chart genuinely describes about how you work, and how to use it at a real crossroads. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/government-job-yoga-kundli https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/government-job-yoga-kundli Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology Asked more than any other career question in this country, and sold harder than any other. What the placements mean, and the sentence no chart can say for you. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/love-marriage-or-arranged-kundli https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/love-marriage-or-arranged-kundli Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology There is no switch in a chart marked love or arranged. What the fifth and seventh houses genuinely describe, and what families are really asking when they ask this. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/when-will-i-get-married-astrology https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/when-will-i-get-married-astrology Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology The single most common question I am asked, and the one most often answered dishonestly. How timing is genuinely read, and why a window is the truthful unit, not a date. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/kaal-sarp-dosh-truth https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/kaal-sarp-dosh-truth Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology Easy to detect without any interpretive skill at all, which is exactly what makes it ideal for selling a remedy at scale. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/kundli-matching-guna-milan https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/kundli-matching-guna-milan Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology The score is built almost entirely on two Moons, and is silent on the seventh house, on Venus and Jupiter, and on the timing running in either life. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/manglik-dosha-explained https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/manglik-dosha-explained Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology A placement, not a sentence — and a very large share of the charts labelled manglik carry a cancellation that nobody checked for. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/muhurat-choosing-auspicious-time https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/muhurat-choosing-auspicious-time Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology What a muhurat is genuinely selecting for, the handful of events where it earns its keep, and the many where it is theatre. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/retrograde-planets-vakri https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/retrograde-planets-vakri Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology Nothing is going backwards. What retrogression actually is, what a vakri planet does in a chart, and why Mercury retrograde became the internet’s favourite excuse. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/rahu-ketu-explained https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/rahu-ketu-explained Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology Two mathematical points rather than bodies, and the two most profitable words in popular astrology. What they describe, and how they behave in an ordinary life. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/saturn-shani-misunderstood https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/saturn-shani-misunderstood Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology Saturn is not a punishment. It is the planet of consequence, delay and slow-built things, and the fear around it costs people more than the transit does. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/sade-sati-explained https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/sade-sati-explained Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology Three phases, seven and a half years, and a reputation well out of proportion to what I actually find in the records. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/mahadasha-antardasha-timing https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/mahadasha-antardasha-timing Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology The part of the chart that answers “why does it feel like this at the moment” more directly than anything else. How the periods are built, and what they actually govern. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/birth-time-accuracy-rectification https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/birth-time-accuracy-rectification Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology The ascendant moves about a degree every four minutes. What that does to a reading, how to find your real time, and what stays reliable when you cannot. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/nakshatras-explained https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/nakshatras-explained Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology Twelve signs is the coarse layer. The twenty-seven lunar mansions are the fine one, and most of the practical work — matching, muhurat, dashas — is done there. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/lagna-ascendant-vs-sun-sign https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/lagna-ascendant-vs-sun-sign Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology The sign you tell people is almost never the one a Vedic astrologer reads from. What the ascendant is, and why it reorganises the entire chart. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/when-you-need-a-doctor-not-a-remedy https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/when-you-need-a-doctor-not-a-remedy Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology The chapter every practitioner in this field ought to be required to write. Where this work stops, said plainly. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/vrat-fasting-who-should-not https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/vrat-fasting-who-should-not Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology The most commonly prescribed remedy in the country, and the one most often prescribed to somebody who should not be doing it. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/how-long-should-a-remedy-be-done https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/how-long-should-a-remedy-be-done Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology Where the forty-day figure comes from, why an open-ended remedy is a warning sign, and how to give one a fair trial without being strung along. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/gemstones-astrology-truth https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/gemstones-astrology-truth Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology How a stone is actually chosen, the questions to ask whoever sells you one, and the incentive problem sitting at the centre of the whole business. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/why-remedies-fail https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/why-remedies-fail Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology Aimed at the wrong thing, abandoned too early, done without understanding, or never needed at all. It is almost always one of those four. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/twelve-houses-explained https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/twelve-houses-explained Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Astrology A chart is a floor plan and the houses are its rooms. What each one governs, and why a strain in one is almost always complicated by another. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-vastu-consultant https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-vastu-consultant Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Vastu Written knowing perfectly well that some readers will use it on me. That is the point — this trade has no register and no barrier to entry. https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/main-door-direction-vastu https://www.acharyaanujjain.com/blog/main-door-direction-vastu Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT Vastu I am asked this more than any other Vastu question, usually by somebody who has already bought the house and cannot move the door.