Vedic astrology, written for thinking seekers

Kharmas (Dhanurmas) begins around 16 December 2026 and this year it does not end on the usual 14th of January. Here is the real end date, why weddings pause, and what you can still do.

2027 has three windows where Vedic tradition closes weddings outright, and three windows where it allows them. Here is the calendar reasoning behind both, and why the exact date still has to come from a chart, not a published list.

Thiru Onam 2027 falls on Sunday, 12 September. Here is the ten-day Atham-to-Thiruvonam calendar, the pookalam and Onasadya, Vallamkali, and why Kerala's biggest festival belongs to everyone, not just one faith.

Ganesh Chaturthi 2027 falls on Saturday, 4 September, with the Ganesha sthapana held in the madhyahna window. The older and stranger instruction attached to this day is the one most people forget: do not look at the moon.

Janmashtami 2027 falls on Wednesday, 25 August. Here is the date, why some traditions keep it a day apart, and how the nishita midnight puja and the fast actually work.

Raksha Bandhan 2027 lands on Tuesday, 17 August, Shravana Purnima. Bhadra runs through the morning that year, so the rakhi waits. Here is the timing, and why the wait matters.

Buddha Purnima 2027 falls on Thursday, 20 May, the full moon of Vaishakha. Tradition holds that the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and parinirvana all occurred on this one lunar day, which is why Vesak carries the weight it does.

Baisakhi 2027 falls on Wednesday, 14 April, the Mesha sankranti. Here is why that date holds the founding of the Khalsa, Punjab's wheat harvest, and a solar new year shared under different names from Kerala to Assam.

Hanuman Jayanti 2027 falls on 20 April for most of India, but Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka each keep their own date. Here is why, and what the day marks.

Akshaya Tritiya 2027 falls on Sunday, 9 May 2027. Here is what the day marks, why it needs no separate muhurat for gold buying or new beginnings, and what still depends on your own chart.

Ram Navami falls on Thursday, 15 April 2027. Here is why the madhyahna hour matters more than any single clock time, how it closes out Chaitra Navratri, and what the day actually asks of the people who keep it.

Ugadi, Gudi Padwa, Cheti Chand and Navreh all mark the same moment on the lunar calendar. In 2027 that moment falls on Wednesday, 7 April, the first day of Chaitra and the start of the new Samvatsara.

Holika Dahan falls on 22 March 2027 and Rangwali Holi on 23 March, but the bonfire itself waits out Bhadra first. Here's the full-moon story behind both dates.

Some calendars print 7 March, others 6 March. Both are reading the same panchang correctly, just at different hours of the night. Here is why the nishita puja belongs to the night of Saturday, 6 March 2027, and how the four-prahar worship actually runs.

Vasant Panchami falls on Thursday, 11 February 2027. Here is the Saraswati Puja timing, and why this is one of the rare days when a wedding, a griha pravesh, or a child's first lesson needs no separate muhurat at all.

Makar Sankranti 2027 falls on 15 January, not the 14th, because the Sun's sidereal entry into Makara that year lands at 21:10 IST on the 14th, after sunset, which pushes the punya kaal to the following sunrise.

Atla Taddi falls on Wednesday, 28 October 2026, a day before Karva Chauth. Find your city's moonrise, the pradosh window for Gauri puja, and how the nirjala vrat, the nomu, and the ten atlu naivedyam are observed.

Thulam Ayilyam falls on 2 November 2026 at the Mannarasala Sree Nagaraja Temple. Here is what the day means, what happens there, and what sarpa dosha actually points to in a birth chart.

Ghatasthapana opens Sharad Navratri on Sunday 11 October 2026. Here is the morning window city by city, the samagri you need, the step-by-step installation, and the honest reason the usual auspicious window does not clear this year.

The 12th house governs loss, expenditure, moksha and foreign settlement, but classical texts read it as release, not doom. Here is what it actually means.

The third house is courage and self-effort before it is siblings. Here is what Sahaja Bhava actually governs, and why it improves with age.

The first house governs the body, temperament, and the frame every other house is read from. Here is how to read the Lagna correctly.

Kemadruma gets all the attention because it frightens people. Its three companion yogas, Sunapha, Anapha and Durudhara, describe the far more common case of a Moon with company on one or both sides, and classical Jyotisha has specific, checkable things to say about each. Here is what the texts claim, what depends on which planet is doing the supporting, and how to read your own Moon against all three.

Sharad Purnima falls on 25 October 2026: the Kojagara vigil, when the kheer goes out under the moon, and a nishita quirk that shifts the date abroad.