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3 Major Reasons Giving Brings You Happiness
What does someone else’s poverty have to do with your happiness? According to both mystics and scientists, a lot more than you’d expect. Globally, there are 7...

Sun in Virgo – Cleaning Up, Moving on Up
The Sun is a star with a tremendous amount of light and intelligence. In Vedic Astrology, Sun symbolizes your soul, activity, the king, and your father. From September...

Can Your Departed Ancestors Help You? An Ancient Practice Said to Bring You Good Fortune
We fancy ourselves alone in a vast universe. But are we? Actually, according to different spiritual traditions, we’re never alone and there’s more to reality...

Vedic Mars (Finally) in Sagittarius: Make a Small Shift for Good Luck in Your Finances and Education
Unless you live in a parallel universe, you’ve been under extreme pressure to perform and transform your bad habits into better ones. The difficult Saturn and...

Your Complete Meditation Guide: Benefits and 7 Simple Ways to Do It Right
In common vernacular the word meditation conjures images of lucky people achieving the nearly impossible: stopping the endless stream of restless and uneasy...

Get Ready for the Family Reunion – Mahalaya Paksha
One of the tools Dr. Pillai has given us is the service of Tarpanam. This is the offering of “food” to the ancestors who may be bothering or blocking us. They are...

Soul Genetics The Fortnight of the Ancestors
Mahalaya (or Pitri Paksha) is a two-week period between the 1st waning Moon and the New Moon day between September and October that is completely dedicated to the...

Happy Birthday Ganesha!
How do we know what it is we are supposed to be doing in order to be happy and fulfilled? The soul knows, so we must learn to listen. We learn to listen through...

Healing Through an Archetype: Meet Dhanvantari
Today, we consider Hippocrates the father of rational science and contemporary medicine. Yet the Greek physician wasn’t the only famous doctor in human history....

Venus in Virgo: 3 Steps From Fussy to Happy
A picky Venus is not great news, but you can win this. The picture in a nutshell: Venus rules sensual abandon in romantic relationships, artistic expressions and...