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Vedic astrology, written for thinking seekers
Plain-language essays from the Vidhata Editorial Desk - grounded in Parashari, KP, and Lal Kitab traditions. No marketing fluff, no copy-paste predictions, no fear-mongering. Just clear thinking about how the planets shape life.
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Vrats & fasting
Navratri Fasting Rules: What the Vrat Actually Permits, and Why
Most Navratri food lists give you a column of allowed items and a column of forbidden ones with no explanation. Here is why grains, table salt, onion and garlic are excluded, why kuttu and singhara are not really grains at all, and why your family's version of the fast can look nothing like your neighbour's and still be correct.
Vidhata Editorial Desk9 Sept 2026 · 10 min - 🏺
Festivals
Navratri 2026: the ghatasthapana window, city by city
Most Navratri guides print one all-India ghatasthapana time and stop there. This year the kalash's own window sits inside both of the rite's classical exclusions, Chitra nakshatra and Vaidhriti yoga, in every city on this list, and the usual midday fallback does not escape either one. Here is what that actually means, and the real sunrise-anchored window for sixteen Indian cities and six abroad.
Vidhata Editorial Desk9 Sept 2026 · 11 min - 🎨
Festivals
Navratri Colours 2026: The Nine-Day List, Dated to This Year
Sharad Navratri 2026 begins Sunday 11 October. Here is the nine-day colour list for this year, why it shifts yearly, and which colour custom says to avoid.
Vidhata Editorial Desk9 Sept 2026 · 8 min
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