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Wood Dragon Year (2024)
Mastering Momentum In the Year of the Wood Dragon Chinese Astrology explores the sequence of time to illuminate our place in the unfolding of life. We are the cycles of time, and exploring these cycles reveals insights about our nature and the authenticity of our...
Water Rabbit Year (2023)
An Opportunity to Recalibrate ... Together, We Go Gently In ... Fate is Destiny Untended Chinese Astrology looks at the sequence of time to gain insight about our place in the orchestration of life. We are the cycles of time, and, as such, exploring time cycles...
Water Tiger Year (2022)
This article is a collaborative offering by Claudia Anfuso and Erin Langley. Ride the Yang Water Tiger (and don’t get devoured) in 2022 The New Moon of February 1st, 2022 marks the official entrance into the Chinese New Year of the Yang Water Tiger. Celebrations...
Pitṛ Pakṣa – The fortnight of the Ancestors
A conversation between Claudia Anfuso and Shakti Caterina Maggi in honor of Pitṛ Pakṣa – dealing with our past, facing death and death of ego patterns.
Your Destiny in Your Hands: An Introduction to the fascinating world of Indian Hand Analysis
Your Destiny in Your Hands: An Introduction to the fascinating world of Hasta Sāmudrika (Indian Hand Analysis) by Claudia Anfus
What is Vedic Astrology?
What is Vedic Astrology – Article written for www.astrology.com.
Metal Ox Year (2021)
Traveling Ox - February 11/12, 2021 - January 30/31, 2022 We have firmly entered the Chinese Year of the Yin Metal Ox. What is a Chinese Year? What does “the Year of the Metal Ox” mean? When it comes to ancient classical traditions like Chinese Astrology, a little...
Un Portale di Trasformazione – Dicembre 21, 2020
Conversazione tra Shakti Caterina Maggi e Claudia Anfuso riguardo l’astrologia del momento e la congiunzione tra Saturno e Giove (12/21/20 – Italiano)
Yoga Vāsiṣṭha
Image by Penabranca Nirvana section II 88-93 Once upon a time when I was the pure sky of consciousness, in that sky of consciousness arose the moonlight of awareness. I was then Brahman. I, the Brahman meditated upon my own being, my own nature, with the cool...
Hymn Of Creation
Image by Penabranca Rig Veda. Mandala 10 Hymn 129 There was not the Non-existent nor the Existent then; there was not the air nor the sky which is beyond. What did it contain? Was there water, unfathomable and profound ? There was not death nor...
Rat Year (2020)
Image by Thailan When Renewal of energy - fresh is inWhatever has gone before is at a disadvantageLet’s move onto something newMeticulousnessLet’s break it down... x3Unstoppable energy (because simple)Take the first step, and then the first step againGet it donePower...
Adding a dimension to the Teacher Student Prayer
This reflection is the fruit of inspiration by three wonderful teachers that light the path underneath my feet: Dharmanidhi Sarasvati, Rami Shivan and Hart de Fouw. May they continue to benefit all beings in all times and spaces. One of the most precious prayers we...
Astrologia e Nondualità
Astrologia e Nondualità – Claudia Anfuso e Shakti Caterina Maggi (Italiano). Una serata dedicata all’essere Uno con l’Universo.
Year of the Yang Earth Dog (2018)
Mountain Dog February 16, 2018 - February 4, 2019 Happy Chinese New Year! We have entered the Chinese year of the Yang Earth Dog, also known as the Mountain Dog. Transitions between cycles of time are great opportunities to slow down and feel into what is expressing...
The Value of Muhūrta
The old world science of Jyotiṣa is comprised of 6 different branches, or limbs. Each one of these limbs offers a different understanding of how manifestation unfolds, and how we can tune into that unfolding to support the human condition. Muhūrta, one of these limbs,...
Ignited Imagination for Monkey Year (2016)
Let’s fire up our Imagination for Monkey Year We are entering the Chinese Year of the Yang Fire Monkey, classically known as the Mountain Monkey. The year commences with the New Moon of February 8th, 2016 (the second New Moon after the Winter Solstice), although the...
The Body is the Yajna – Connecting to the Sacred Fire of Our Body
This article is fruit of a specific inspiration by one of my teachers, Hart de Fouw.Living and growing up in a society where ritual is not at the forefront of our experience, how can we relate to fire ritual in an embodied sense? The external act of offering items...
How does Jyotiṣa differ from Western astrology?
There are a many differences between what is known as Western astrology and Jyotiṣa, or Vedic astrology. Some major ones are: First and foremost, Jyotiṣa is based on the sidereal zodiac. A planet’s position in the heavens is measured against the backdrop of fixed...
Hasta Sāmudrika Śāstra – An Introduction to Vedic Palmistry
Abhyāsa: Re-discovering the Value of Repetition
Abhyāsa: continuous endeavor, constant practice, repetition, exercise, exertion.'as' to throw, 'abhi' toward In Dharmanidhi's class Texts of the Yoga Tradition, we were introduced to the concept of abhyāsa as one of the principles of exegesis. Exegesical analysis is...
Palmis Tree
PalmisTree is an interactive installation/art project conceived for the Art in Nature – The Nature of Art Festival in 2010. As a board member of Samavesha, a San Francisco Bay Area multidisciplinary performing arts non-profit dedicated to creating powerful...