Applications in Vedic astrology (jyotish): a compilation of essays on techniques, in-depth celebrity profiles, and analysis of mundane events. A highly informative reference work for serious students of astrology written by an astrologer experienced in both western and Vedic systems.

Ever since the Brooklyn Blast in 2021, the human bedbugs and cockroaches of a traumatized society have crawled out of the woodwork. Cash-strapped and struggling with his own PTSD, New York investigator and exterminator-for-hire Keith Savage suddenly catches a case.A beautiful LA journalist wants him to retrieve a younger sister who's vanished from their Long Island home. Runaway or kidnapped, there's a huge find-and-return fee to get Marielle back home before the weekend when her f...

Scorpio Rising (New Age noir)In the space of one hour, three strangers die violent deaths. A hit-and-run vehicle kills a dot-com millionaire jogging in San Francisco. A car bomb obliterates the team leader of a government counter-terrorism project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. An assailant ambushes a New York heiress walking home from Broadway and forces her own pepper spray down her throat.In all three cases, investigators reach an immediate impasse. Each victim leaves an est...

Stellar Astrology, Volume 3, is a third compilation of articles covering topics in Jyotish, or Vedic astrology. Key principles and techniques of analysis and prediction are illustrated through a series of profiles featuring celebrities, criminals, and political figures, plus many instructive technical essays.This is a lively and informative book intended for serious students and practitioners alike. For more of the best astrological writing today, see Annand's earlier collections, ...

Kala Sarpa, "the serpent of time," is an astrological pattern wherein all of the planets occupy half of the chart as defined by the axis of the moon's nodes, Rahu and Ketu. Although one in eight people have Kala Sarpa in their charts, few know whether it constitutes a yoga, a sign of power and fortune, or a dosha, an inherent flaw that may irrevocably spoil a life.Because it isn't discussed in any of the classic shastras of Jyotisha, the Kala Sarpa pattern is poorly understood by c...

Most astrologers recognize the Bowl – one of seven horoscope patterns popularized by Marc Edmund Jones. Many are also familiar with Pamela Crane's concept of the Draconic chart, wherein the lunar nodes provide a benchmark for assessing individual karma.By merging both principles, we can identify a unique shape – the Draconic Bowl – where the nodal axis forms the rim of the bowl, and the seven visible planets are bound to one side of that axis. By applying core principles drawn from...

Stellar Astrology, Volume 2, is a second compilation of articles covering topics in Jyotish, or Vedic astrology. Techniques for analysis and forecasting are illustrated through a series of articles – biographical profiles, criminal and mundane events, political and spiritual luminaries, and technical essays.This is a lively and informative book intended for serious students and seasoned practitioners alike. For more of the best astrological writing today, see Annand's earlier book,...

Parivartana Yogas are said to be among the most powerful of planetary combinations, having the capacity to link the effects of two astrological houses in a chart. However, aside from what we find explicitly in Mantreswara's Phala Deepika, there's little in the literature – neither in the many classics of Jyotisha, nor in modern books – to help us understand these yogas.In this volume, an invaluable reference work for any Vedic astrologer's library, the author describes the effects ...

Axel Crowe is a criminal analyst who applies esoteric principles taught by his enigmatic guru. A finder of wayward people and stolen possessions, Crowe profiles subjects in a distinctly unique manner, using astrology, palmistry and other unconventional techniques. Facts are gross, but the truth is subtle, his guru repeats like a mantra, and although motives for murder lie buried deep, a righteous and relentless man will inevitably unearth them.#1 Scorpio Rising. Axel Crowe probes t...

Approximately 43% of us have a mutual reception by sign in our birth chart, ie, when two planets simultaneously occupy each other's sign. It's a powerful combination that links the effects of two houses in a chart, yet it's one of the least understood patterns in astrology. This book, an invaluable reference for any astrologer's library, describes the effects for each of the 66 combinations of house lord exchange.The first section of the book defines mutual reception in various for...

Beneath Buddhist prayer flags, a reporter is found dead at dawn on a Vermont ashram. Summoned by an old friend who runs a silent retreat, astrologer Axel Crowe arrives to assess the situation. Within hours, the police arrest his friend for murder.Believing him innocent, Crowe suspects instead a mysterious devotee who may be ex-CIA, and the beautiful Thai woman who accompanied him to the retreat. But when Crowe follows them to New York, the woman disappears and the man threatens to ...

When a beautiful woman dies at a California vineyard, astrologer Axel Crowe divines this was no accident. Although the police at first assume a tainted pinot noir, Crowe suspects an exotic poison.With her best friend dead and her vineyard's reputation in jeopardy, Crowe's client urges him to ferret out the guilty from among a cast of immigrant workers, competing vintners and old Napa money with criminal connections.The nexus of intrigue is a developer bent on turning the Na...