This book is a collection of articles on a wide range of topics, each of which instructs students on some aspect of Jyotiṣa.
Places Where Planets Die explores the concept of mārana kāraka shtāna found in Sanskrit texts concerning houses where planets are particularly ill-placed and can give very unfavorable results.
In the Third Part of Interest students will learn about the special significance of certain 10-degree segments of the Zodiac and the results planets can give when placed there.
Lunar Illumination illustrates the importance of interpreting a birth chart and planetary periods using the position of the Moon as an ascendant and how some facts of a person’s life and the timing of events can only be seen from this perspective.
Teacher’s Pet teaches students how to recognize the elements of a birth chart that indicate the potential for good educational achievement and how to predict when this will occur.
Yatra Yearnings is an original research article about those astrological factors that are activated in a horoscope when individuals go on a spiritual pilgrimage.
O Brother, Where Art Though? is an article on the Jaimini system of Jyotiṣa thatinstructs students on how the planet with the third highest degrees in a horoscope can be used to predict the birth of younger siblings, as well as other indications of the 3rd house.