The Index

Vedic astrology is treated here as a working craft rather than a belief system: what each planet signifies, how a chart is actually read, and which technique answers which kind of question. The collections run from the foundations — planets, karakas, rāśi and nakṣatra — through to the predictive systems: Krishnamurti's cuspal interlinks, Bhrigu Nandi Nadi, Lal Kitab, and the timing of transits and daśās. Where the traditions disagree, both readings are given rather than one being quietly dropped.

Sacred text, story and practice, kept side by side rather than sorted into a single tradition. Hindu mythology and beej mantras sit alongside Buddhist teaching, Bible narratives, Islamic duas, and the folk remedies that grew up around all of them. Many entries carry a recorded reading, and where a text has a settled canonical form it is given in full before any commentary on it.

Notes, essays and worked predictions written outside the reference collections. Some are commentary on how these systems behave in practice and where they mislead; others are the readings themselves — Vedic Cards predictions set down as question, cards and answer — kept so a method can be judged on what it actually said.