Saturn Retro 2025: 24: Ultra Retro Vortex

Saturn Retro 2025. Today's 3rd Nov, the tenth day of the Ultra Retro phase. The final 21 day phase annual Saturn Retro. This year.. from 24th oct to 14 Nov. 

And tonight I watched Roi Roi Binale, the FINAL film of our tragically departed ICON Zubeen Garg. The movie was released on 31st October, Friday. The frenzy of our fans demanded his shows began from 4am and continue house full, relentlessly, throughout the entire day until the last show 11pm ended at 1:30am.It's 2am, I'm back from his late night show at City Centre Mall. I accompanied Dipshika and Adil, who luckily got tickets despite all shows sold out for the entire next month.

I, and the entire state of Assam grieved his death the entire last one and half months. And towards the end, we had slowly resumed to our daily lives. But watching his movie on tenth night of Ultra Retro saw a complete resurrection/ resurgence of all thos buried wounds.

For Saturnine people, the concluding 21 day, Ultra Retro phase of annual Saturn retrograde is extraordinarily significant. As it comprised the SCHEDULED annual Cathartic period of upheaval, Turmoil, torment, duress and mourning. Even though I had mourned the tragic death of Zubeen earlier, it was NOT aligned with the correct phase of Saturn retro.

But now, watching this late night show, completely ALIGNED with the acute Saturnine motion. And mourning during this period, is furthermore significant for me. Because of Ultra Retro, 2009.

My astro Guru T.N. Sarma had passed away on the very FIRST day of Ultra Retro, 2009. But instead of returning to hometown Guwahati to pay tribute and condolences, I had accompanied my wife on her work trip to Paris. The radioactive fallout from that haunted me for almost a decade.

Ultra Retro 2009, has been, since then, the foundation stone of retro theory, the Felix Culpa for all following Saturn Retrograde seasons, uptil now! If you browse through my considerable amount of Saturn Retrograde posts in this blog, across decades, you'll find that the reference point has always been, the great fall of Saturn retrograde 2009.

Even though, I'm always quite emotional at the movies, I saw Roi Roi Binale quite stoically and objectively. But it was towards the end that the possession happened.

Towards the end titles showing back footage of him in the sets of the film. And his parting tributes and messages on screen. I could feel energy emerge from the screen and take direct grasp of him. And it was only after the screen went black, the years started rolling down. I'm not a great fan of emotional breakdown in public, but I simply couldn't control this spasmodic, glandular outburst. Tears went on and on, I was numb, I couldn't speak, couldn't propely bid farewell to my companions, just went like a zombie to the parking lot, drove the vehicle and set out into the late, late, night.

For a long time, I drove around Zood Road, without being able to calm down and come home. Finally I stopped at a pillar near my by lane. With a massive lizard above me, stood for a long time having a smoke. And formed and declared the Constitution for the next 11 days.

Whether you're a Zubeen fan or not, or even remotely connected, if you're Saturnine, you should DIRECTLY mourn for the next 11 days, until 14 November. If you're not Saturnine, don't waste this precious time.. just spread your wings, and fly towards the Sun.

I haphazardly detoured from mourning my astro Guru in Ultra retro 2009. Since then, always in Ultra Retro period, I always had the occasion to mourn. Because of someone connected with me departing at that exact period. But this time, the mourning has upscaled to a cosmic level. With million, uncountables, gathering in movie halls from pre dawn to post midnight!! Just to release their anguish, grief, and sorrow. I didn't shed a single tear in the comforting darkness of the theater.

I started oozing, bleeding, once the lights came on. Fully lit, visible, exiting, in the lobby, lift, in front of hundreds of fans!

A grown ass man with unshaved white beard. Somehow suppressing the lurching spasms of emotional cats yowling, hissing and howling in his stomach..

.. The realm of Pure Emotional possession..

And after exiting the theater, standing, smoking, outside my bylane, below the massive lizard, the ASTROLOGICAL/ ASTRONOMICAL phenomenon of this event finally dawned upon me with full significance 🔥🔥🔥👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Astronomical/ Astrological Significane

The astrological input / information about this period finally IRONICALLY came from someone who was not even a Zubeen Garg fan. My senior, brotherly figure from schooldays, Ravi Jyoti Deka, biker, tripper, inventor, boat maker, fuel innovator, entrepreneur etc etc, and also a great astrologer and cosmologist.

➡️Ravi Deka on LinkedIn ⬅️

➡️Ravi Deka Water Transport website⬅️

I had previously dropped over at his place just to understand the Significane of current mysterious comet 3I/ ATLAS coursing through our solar system at this period. After discussing with him, and going through the below video👇👇

➡️Great Youtbe video on Comet 3i Atlas⬅️

and asking some critical questions to Meta AI, on what's app)

These are the conclusions I gathered about this significant astrological period..

• ‌3I/ ATLAS entered the solar system RETROGRADE in Sagittarius and exiting through Virgo

• ‌CURRENTLY 3I/ ATLAS Retrograde in Virgo is directly Opposite Retrograde Saturn in Pisces
• CURRENT DIRECT OPPOSITION of Retrograde 3I/ ATLAS ➡️&⬅️Saturn

• ‌Hence current Saturn Ultra Retro is UNIMAGINABLY Aligned with Retrograde 3I/ ATLAS

• ‌Hence current Saturn Ultra Retro is MAGNIFIED xxx times by 3I/ ATLAS

• ‌Hence current Saturn Ultra Retro is MAGNIFIED on a GALACTIC LEVEL by visiting Comet 3I/ ATLAS

• ‌Hence this Saturn Ultra Retro period from 24 October to 14 November will see UNIMAGINABLE energy vortex

• ‌This period will be the HISTORICAL FOUNDATION of the Future to come

• ‌Such an Energy Vortex is expressing itself most Directly and evidently in Assam, Kamrupa, the birth site of Tantra itself, according to Kalika Purana

• ‌ This visible manifestation of this being millions of the population focussing their emotional energy upon the death, legend, mythios of one single person

• ‌The psychic wave potential of the vast human population mixed with the Tantric space and significant planetary transit is creating an Energy portal

• ‌Hence we can feel this energy effect of Retrograde 3I/ ATLAS ➡️&⬅️Saturn in this geography particularly

• ‌Nonetheless, this is a global level transit/ global reset which is showing it's effect across countries, continents and nations

• ‌Since the individual astrological impact of 3I/ ATLAS cannot be deciphered individually, but only in context with its retrograde opposite IN TANDEM WITH current Saturn Retrograde 2025.

• ‌Hence, understanding Saturn Retrograde dynamics is the key to tapping the energy of this period 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

➡️Significance of Saturn Retrograde⬅️

🙏🏼🙏🏼Jai Shanidev🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 23: Ultra Retro, Day 8

Saturn Retro, Ultra Retro phase from 24 Oct to 14 Nov. Most intense tail of Saturn Retrograde, 2025. This post is appropiated from my Ketu Blog.

On a Cloudy Grey day on 31st October 2025, the eight day of 21 days of Ultra Retro phase of annual Saturn Retrograde 2025 , my ister was opening a bag of winter clothes and inside a jacket pocket, amidst other forgotten gemstones, I found a long lost Cloudy Grey cat's eye gemstone ring. It was too tight for me, I had it loosened in a neighborhood jewelry shop.

 
Later, in the basement our GCA adda, in the basement below Klub Mart, where, inebriated, I had left my bag, I finally wore the Cloudy Grey stone. Below ground, foundation, basement..Ketu. The ambience..

Later as I exited for a lunch, in 15 minutesI found my long, lost friend Sabah Al Zareed standing up to pick up his daughter from the school. A bearded, veteran Lawyer/ Advocate, but whom I remembered in HS exams, drawing Iron Maiden sketches on his answer sheet!! Meeting him in Metallica concert in Bangalore.. randomly.

We exchanged numbers and u as I proceeded, met another friend out of the blue.. My friend, Rakesh Borgohain, Architect, in middle of an intense traffic jam.. cracking jokes. Out of the Blue..

Later on TV, a Tsunami of images of First Day movie Release of Roi Roi Binale of Zubeen Garg who has left us for heavenly abode. And today seeing the images of the audience.. The frenzy for Icin/ avatar demi God Zubeen Garg.. Still raged strong.. 🔥🔥

Such a intense day, on this Cloudy Grey day on 31st October 2025.. This eight day of 21 days of Ultra Retro phase of annual Saturn Retrograde 2025 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 22: Pitra Karma Zone

In my last post, I wrote about  Sun + Ketu deep conjunction at Leo, @24°07' , Purva Phalguni Nakshtra,  Pada (4), on 10th September, around midnight. I was in the hospital, as an attendant to my sister, , post her surgery, earlier completed at Daytime.

 
Also in the previous post, I had proclaimed that... I would encounter echoes, of past ghosts at hometown Guwahati,
And had also proclaimed, that, once, I land at  my hometown, I would.. "...accelerate and multiply the retrograde tempo and intensity of this ongoing Saturn Retrograde journey/ process.. "

BUT never did I expect all that Proclamation to tie all TOGETHER in the PERFECT ASTROLOGICAL GEOMETRY. !
How!! 👇🏼👇🏼

From 8th to 21 September, is Shraddh, the annual period of PITRA Paksh, when we pray homage to the deceased, departed souls, and to our ancestors, and perform all annual Tarpan rituals for our departed family/ ancestors.
And the current ongoing SUN + Ketu Conjunction ( in any sign) , is called in any horoscope as. .. PITRA Dosha!!.. Indicative of karmic debts owed to ancestors..!

 
SO it's a double whammy, Grammy winning .. Karmic Redemptive vortex period till 17th September, when Sun moves out of Leo!

 
ESPECIALLY FROM 10TH TO 13TH SEPTEMBER.. when Sun + Ketu  are in deep conjunction at Leo, @24°07' , Purva Phalguni Nakshtra,  Pada (4), SAME, NAKSHATRA PADA, . . Dreaded .. Scorpio Navamsha!! 🔥🔥🔥

Noteworthy to say, that Scorpio is the natural 8th House/ Sign, representing death, destruction, rebirth, ancestral karma, inherited karma, occult, and also representing the Mooladhara Chakra, which is a storehouse of our past karmas and debts!!

 
Hence, this current conjunction represents A DIRECT KARMIC window for accessing your Birth Pitra Dosha.

ESPECIALLY SINCE, Sun moved into Leo from 17th August forming Sun + Ketu conjunction ( PITRA Dosha),  "Blood Moon Eclipse", i. e., complete Lunar Eclipse/ Chandra Grahan at LEO on 7th September, and from very next day.. Pitra Paksh began on 8th Sept, , all OVERLAPPING  !!!!
In my previous post, I had said.. 👇🏼👇🏼..

 
"..in November/ December 2005, DURING Saturn Retrograde,  I had moved to Delhi, leaving Hometown Guwahati, DURING this period. HENCE, since then, hometown Guwahati shifted into the haunting zone for me.. bordering between two worlds... "

And now, landing up in Hometown Guwahati in this exact period of Extreme Karmic Catharsis... Triple karmic configuration  brings an altogether different meaning to Saturn Retrograde 2025!!

 
Like I had visualised in the previous post.. The invisible Haunted Doorway/ portal into the Pitra Zone/ Grey Zone hath OPENED... allowing us to redeem,  recompense, release our long festering, pending, unresolved.. KARMIC DEBTS.
..and thereof.. to evolve/ elevate to the next level..

 

Footnote/ Beltola

The hospital where I have dwelled in since night of 9th Sept, being located in Beltola, has special significance, as we grew up here in child hood. And I had previously dedicated a post to the Special  PITRA energy significance of this location 👉🏼👉🏼Saturn Retro Post 13: Bat From Beltola
👈🏼👈🏼. 

The household from where I got that "Bat from Beltola " is walking distance from the hospital!
In Vedic thought, we consider Sthaan, Kaal, Paatra, namely Place, Time, and Context/ Circumstance of ALL events.

I bow in obeisance to Lord Shanidev for arranging and placing me in the PERFECT.. Sthaan, Kaal, Paatra, of this cosmic  Redemptive/ Cathartic event.. 🙏🏼🙏🏼.

Also Noteworthy, that Darshan Barman, 👇🏼👇🏼my younger but genius astrologer friend with whom I've been in daily touch for almost  FOUR years now, because he discovered a hidden PITRA Dosha in my chart due to the Sun. He lives in a few minutes walking distance from the hospital.. In Beltola.. 👇🏼👇🏼

🙏🏼🙏🏼🌷🌷 Jai Shanidev 🌷🌷🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 21: Geometry Of Haunting

In my last post, I wrote about how I landed at my hometown Guwahati, for my sister's surgery, and it's great SIGNIFICANCE to current ongoing Saturn Retrograde, 2025. Also, in it, I wrote about other parallel planetary transits, which heavily contributed to the current energy trend.

So, today I want to focus on Sun + Ketu maximum conjunction at Leo, @24°07' or Purva Phalguni Nakshtra, at Pada (4), on THIS NIGHT of 10th September, around midnight. As I'm in attendance with my sister, in hospital, post her surgery, earlier today at Daytime.

In the previous post, I had proclaimed that I would encounter echoes, of past ghosts at hometown Guwahati, but didn't expect this to occur in perfect geometric astrological REVERSE/ Replay!!! How?? 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Like I said, that today SUN + Ketu are at maximum conjunction at Leo, @24°07' THIS NIGHT of 10th September.
In my own natal horoscope/ birthchart.. SATURN and Ketu are at maximum conjunction at 10°26 Gemini, in Ardra Nakshatra. And natal Saturn's 3rd house, ( strongest aspect) is ON at this exact Sun + Ketu in Leo.

HENCE.. My NATAL/ BIRTH position.. of Deep Conjunction of Saturn+ Ketu in Gemini, is.. Right Now.... Directly Aspecting.. the CURRENT DEEP Conjunction of Sun+ Ketu in Leo!!

👇🏼👇🏼IN AN EVEN SIMPLER WAY 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
BIRTH: Ketu + Saturn.. Deep conjunct in Gemini,
👇🏼👇🏼DIRECTLY Aspecting 👇🏼👇🏼
CURRENT: Ketu + Sun.. Deep conjunct in Leo..

This current conjunction has great SIGNIFICANCE as it represents A DIRECT KARMIC REVERSE, of my Birth planetary position. Enabling me to access the current Karmic Catharsis in Leo. ESPECIALLY just three days after the great "Blood Moon Eclipse", or complete Lunar Eclipse/ Chandra Grahan at LEO on 7th September.

And the relevance of today's post, is MUCH MORE with context to my PREVIOUS post, wherein I blindly PROCLAIMED, while typing that post, that once I land at my hometown, I would.. "...accelerate and multiply the retrograde tempo and intensity of this ongoing Saturn Retrograde journey/ process.. "
And, Voila! The universe creates the perfect portal for it tonight, in this hospital!!

In my previous post, I had said.. 👇🏼👇🏼..
"..in November/ December 2005, I had got married DURING Saturn Retrograde, and moved to Delhi, leaving Hometown Guwahati, DURING this period. HENCE, since then, hometown Guwahati shifted into the haunting zone for me.. bordering between two worlds... "

👆🏼👆🏼Basically, I calculated huge UNFINISHED karma in my hometown, and in the very next post, today's post... It's been geometrically revealed by the physical/ metaphysics of the planets..

 
..This Geometry Of Haunting..

Also, in my previous post, I had said.. 👇🏼👇🏼..

".. I have to continue and stretch the cathartic, redemptive, retrograde, process for two weeks and two days more, until the 24th of September. Despite the mandatory fact, that I'll be completely swallowed, and subsumed by the hectic, intense, hometown Guwahati environment.. "

👆🏼👆🏼 But I had miscalculated a bit, the apex point of this phase of Saturn Retrograde.. Which I found only today.. 10th September, maximum Ketu+ Sun conjunction in Leo! Also represents maximum Rahu - Sun opposition!

See the clashes in Nepal, burning, turbulence of this very combination. But anyways, this is an intensely/ inward/ personal post. Not one proclaiming Global Events according to planets. 

BUT Definitely.. DEFINING.. The invisible Haunted Doorways, allowing us to redeem, recompense, release our pending karmic debts. And then to thereof.. EVOLVE/ Transform!!

It's 11:48 pm now.. Sun @ 24°04 Leo inching towards Ketu @ 24°07 Leo!! Even the exact timing for writing of this post was WRITTEN in Heavens.. and that too mirroring/ reversing the combination in my birth chart / horoscope!!

As Saturn Retrograde as it gets.., 🔥🔥🔥

Prologue

I reached the night before, exact 25 hrs before this Sun + Ketu maximum conjunction @ 24°07 Leo! AND this post has been written in one go, (like the previous post in mid flight) while lying in as attendant in a hospital bed! After the maximum conjunction is over.. From tomorrow.. Slowly.. Things would crawl back to normal/ usual.

00:33 am, 11 Sept, now Sun @ 24°06 Leo inching towards Ketu @ 24°07 Leo!! I was discussing this very minute point with a young, gifted, fellow astrologer about this karmic transit. Second late night caller was a dear friend from Delhi, who was going through, probably the Darkest night of the soul. It was easy for me to predict as Ketu snd Sun moved apart from each other, from their maximum conjunction at @ 24°07 Leo, things WOULD improve for him! Such events were fated, designed, written by the stars themselves 👍🏼👍🏼✅

Post Script
01:54 am, 11 Sept, i received a picture from Katrina,  astrologer, who has become my bestie on Threads. It was a new ring, she had made in her ring making craft workshop. It was a multi gemstone ring with a prominent ruby on top. Ruby= Sun = Leo! 👇🏼👇🏼

The picture mirrored my own  pictures in this post pointing at the hospital ceiling...

And currently she was offering Underworld readings of birthcharts, examining very dark, difficult, complex placements.. 👇🏼👇🏼

..Karmic threads, connecting.. the stars.. and unraveling..

..their Geometry of Haunting.. 

🙏🏼🙏🏼🌷🌷 Jai Shanidev 🌷🌷🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 20: Hometown Guwahati

It has been a while since my last post about ongoing Saturn Retrograde, 2025. Many other turbulent parallel transits, and a massive Lunar eclipse on 7th September, saw to it, that we were all engrossed with and subsumed by intense turbulent events.

Today, 9.9.205, eg, 9.9.9 portal, I'm flying back to Hometown Gauhati, to be there for my sisters surgery. I've started writing this post mid flight, at an epic Twin Peak of anxiety. Flying on 9.9.9 portal, Martian excess, ON a Tuesday, Mangal vaar, ruled by Mars. And secondly, directly landing at the hospital from the airport, as my sister's now already been admitted. And undergoing tests, as I type this out, mid flight!

And the relevance of this post, with context to previous posts, is that since I'll land up in my hometown, there would be a massive opportunity to DWELL and DROWN into the RETROGRADE energies of my past. A massive opportunity.. to accelerate and multiply the retrograde tempo and intensity of this ongoing Saturn Retrograde journey/ process..

To be Visiting hometown Guwahati, especially, during this yellow phase of Saturn Retrograde 2025 👇🏼👇🏼..

..Affording me the opportunity to revisit the very place, wherein, twenty years before, I had BEGUN writing about Saturn Retro.. in hometown Guwahati.. during Saturn retrograde 2005..

EVEN MORE SO.. Because, in November, December 2005, I had got married DURING Saturn Retrograde, and moved to Delhi, leaving Hometown Guwahati, DURING this period. HENCE, since then, hometown Guwahati shifted into the haunting zone for me.. bordering between two worlds... ...a realm I have been forever trying to negotiate, balance, with..

In 2005, Saturn retrograde was happening in Cancer, my 10th house, of career. The sudden departure to Delhi, after marriage, DURING retrograde, completely set back my career.. By DECADES..

This time, 2025, it's happening in Pisces, my 6th house.. of disease, problems, karmic debts, opposition, conflicts, misery, etc...

And this time, I AM flying back home..suddenly.. FOR my sister's sudden surgery/ operation. A window, an opportunity for Karmic redemption, created by the heavens.. at the perfect conjecture..

My job: I just have to continue and stretch the cathartic, redemptive, retrograde, process for two weeks and two days more, until the 24th of September. Despite the mandatory fact, that I'll be completely swallowed, and subsumed by the hectic, intense, hometown Guwahati environment.

And I AM.. Writing this on my phone note app, during flight, forming the mission statement BEFORE I land at ground zero. Before I'm inevitably and Completely swallowed, and subsumed by the hectic, intense, hometown Guwahati environment.

This very opportunity for formation of thought has been spontaneously and unexpectedly created by the wheels of time itself. By the very fabric of Saturn Retrograde itself..!!

And I just have to do one thing and one thing only..

Become completely submerged by the ongoing process/ journey of ongoing Saturn retrograde 2025..

..and try to maintain the continuum of these retrograde posts..

🙏🏼🙏🏼🌷🌷 Jai Shanidev 🌷🌷🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 19: Being and Nothingness

Been a while since I posted about ongoing Saturn Retrograde. Completely Forgetting that it's a Karmic functionality for me ( check my previous thousand posts on Saturn Retro). And that I get some kind of reprieve from it's tallows, when I keep on writing about it. Otherwise it becomes quite messy, like I recently found out. The swamps become deeper and muddier. The mud rises from the knees up to your neck. Almost swallowing you down under. Completely.

Today's post suddenly began at 2:49 am, Monday morning. Abruptly and suddenly. As I woke up from sleep, uncharacteristically. As if, the culminating events of the past week, almost coerced me to write. Compulsively and abruptly, and without ceremony. More like a human experiencing Saturn Retrograde.

 Bereft of the astrological interpretations of the previous posts of Saturn retrograde 2025. As if, strangulating gravitation, choked me up, and writing was the only activity, that provided air passage to my lungs. Writing directly, and without ado.

 
Is this what we would experience while crossing through a black hole? As gravity increased exponentially and time itself reversed? And we began to be confronted, and haunted by the ghosts from the past. As they immensely and fervently clawed at our soul.

I took a screenshot of my first Saturn retrograde blog post, previously uploaded on Threads. Reminding my own self of its ongoing schedule. A schedule that Surpassed all other PREVAILING AND ONGOING astrological transits. Especially for me.  I have written about it already.

Why I discontinued writing on Retrograde was because of two reasons: Readers/ audience, and secondly astrological content. But as a human writing about Saturn Retrograde for about twenty years, both online and offline, I could just summon up the decades long inertia..  and just continue..

Maybe these words uploaded on the post served some deeper, direct, karmic functionality that I was yet to fathom.

 
As soon, as I opened my mobile in the darkness, this song popped up before me.. On YouTube.

👉🏼Walking in Circles - Fadaway 👈🏼

And, which, I played in a loop, to help me spurn forth these words of mine. Just writing about BEING/ existing in Retrograde. Remembering the title of Being and Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre. Just BEING/ existing. Extrapolate on the fibres, and cables of BEING/ existing itself. Without ANY event or content. Except one. Saturn Retrograde! Just that. Only that singular one.

 
Now, it's 3:12 am, the strangulating grasp upon my neck feels a bit relieved. The heart feels slightly less heavier. But yet, so far, down this post, I have complete and utterly, written about nothing in particular, so far. But.. Just written. 

And by listening to a singular song that popped up on YouTube, at this unearthly hour. It's not even, of my particular taste. But slightly hovered around the songs in my Smouldering Blues Country folder amongst 134 other astrologically sorted music folders, sorted According to. Mood, nuance and shade.

Saturn retrograde writing has always had it's own way with me. Surpassing time, space, borders, definition and objectivity. Just the Smouldering Blue of the universe, reaching out to me. Tapping me on my shoulders in a unearthly hour. To just wake up, and relentlessly write. About the metaphysical churning process of Saturn retrograde.
About what it feels like to be human. Bereft of all content, and trappings. The hardware beneath, all that overwhelming software.

I have read enough in my lifetime to tangentially grasp, out of the corner of my eye, that, this piece would have been some great passage of writing, if placed in the right place in a novella, or a piece which was about self reflection.

But no!! .. It had to be this random piece in my blog, strictly about the metaphysics of Saturn retrograde. About it's human nitty gritty. This was not writing, but rambling about nothingness in particular. I wouldn't call it the Void, as it has been, the intellectual  trend in the past hundred years or so. I would call it nothingness. The nothingness of the hardware that operates our human consciousness and Experiencing. Beneath all that overloaded software. Like the massive library of Apps, pictures, and music in your phone.
But, beneath it all, the loneliness, and emptiness of the hardware.

One thing definitely bothers me though. I can ONLY write this well, only when, I'm writing about Saturn retrograde. Otherwise, my writing ALWAYS feels forced, contrived, phallocentric and hollow. And I rapidly tire of the process of writing, even while I'm at it.

But Saturn retrograde is different. It taps on your shoulder. Wake you up at an unearthly hour. To just wake your senses, and write. Listening to a singular piece of music, that just found you, and just write.

Anyways, it's 3: 46 am now, I'm a bit woozy now, so I'll end this post..
.. As abruptly as I began..
🙏🏼🙏🏼🌷🌷 Jai Shanidev 🌷🌷🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 18: Divisional Magic

Today's my 18th post on Saturn Retrograde 2025. In contrast with my earlier volcanic, apocalyptic posts, in today's post, I get to celebrate the truly Retrogressive and Retrograde quality of Saturn Retro season.

After many comments and sharing ideas with fellow astrologer Eshan Sen on Instagram Threads, we finally came on call and did a mutual reading of each other's horoscopes. The first thing that struck me was that he had Rahu Mars in 10th, and Venus Saturn in 6th, EXACTLY like Darshan, a young astrologer whom I had regularly connected in my visits to hometown Guwahati. He had the SAME brilliant acumen, insight, analytical ability, sharpness that allowed him/ them to foray into completely esoteric, ethereal, and unconventional realms of astrological analysis.

 Whereas, in Darshan's case, his methodology, was a completely ALTERNATIVE perspective on the most regular horoscopes, a system which I haven't been able to fathom, in Eshan's case, his methodology was strictly Vedic, BUT which forayed into the complex, fine, esoteric realms of Vedic astrology, and in this case, the realm of the..Divisional Charts!! 

 In Vedic astrology, the Divisional charts, D9 Navamsa, D10 Dashamsa, and so on, and so forth uptil D60, Shashtiamsa, represented, a single Rashi/ Zodiac being divided into parts/ degrees/ sectors like the name suggested. D9, divides 30°, of a single zodiac into 9 divisions of 3°20', ie, 3 degrees and twenty minutes. D10, Dashmasha, divides 30°, of a single zodiac into 10 divisions of 3°, ie, 3 degrees. D60, Shastiamsa, divided 30°, of a single zodiac into 60 divisions of 3 1/2 °, ie, 1/2 of a degree!!!

 I have always used D9 in relationship considerations, and D10 in career aspects in my horoscope analysis regularly. But never had I forayed into the oceanic, karmic depths of these divisional charts 🔥🔥🔥

 And since divisional charts require such precision in birth timing, it's always better to be left to an expert in this specialized field who understood WHICH DIVISIONAL CHART CARRIED The EXACT Karmic Footprint !! WHICH ONE TO SELECT FOR RELEVANT ANALYSIS🔥🔥 Eshan started our conversation, intuitively from Akshavedamsha, D45, where 30° of a rashi, zodiac was divided into 45 divisons!! Do the math 🔥🔥🔥!!

Above is my D45 chart, and Eshan jumped to the tenth house where you see a cluster chaos of four malefic planets in Pisces, forming an Asphyxiating karmic knot! He said as an opening dialogue.. " You're gifted.. But challenged ". Which has been a dominant theme in my life from SCHOOLDAYS itself! 

I remember school teachers calling my parents, on my bad days.. " Your son is extremely gifted, but so challenged.. ". A dominant them, haunting spirit, which has relentlessly pursuit me across my life, now, into this gray haired age!! For an astrologer to pick out a SINGLE Divisional chart amongst AT LEAST 20 OTHERS, to expose the most Dominant theme of ones life, and to define it with a clear phase, is what I believe is the hallmark of a truly gifted astrologer. He could have begun anywhere D1, D9, even the all conclusive D60, revealing summation of our Karmic accounts. 

BUT no, he started and focussed on D45. Especially focussing on some INHERITED karma from my father's side of family. Why was this so spectacular and relevant to me?? BECAUSE👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

 12 years before I used to more Vaastu work, and the odd interiors project, heralding my gradual crossing over. But then I had come across my then spiritual Guide Energy Healer D Roy Karmakar, who had divined through his powers, that there was Tantric practitioner in my fathers side of family, who passed away before completing his rituals, and resolving things. And I was an energy incarnation of that ancestor, taking birth to resolve his various incomplete energy processes. 

Later on research I did find, that my paternal grandmothers father, ie, my dad's mum's dad, was indeed a great Kali Sadhak, priest, who was famous. He used to walk from far away to do ceremonial poojas for the Jorhat theatre. Also during the great earthquake of the 60s, even as houses crumbled, the river changed course, submerging the then capital city of Dibrugarh, his pooja remained undisturbed. Even his ghat, copper vessel containing water during pooja remained undisturbed, in hometown Jorhat.

 I've performed many tarpan, shanti, energy clearing, catharsis rituals since then. And even became a full time astrologer. But somewhere, never had the exact astrological visual picture justifying this karmic precondition lurking in my roots.

 With Eshan's diagnosis, I could finally have the exact CT scan, lab report of a condition which had festered me for long. Now, with the lab report in hand, the manifold remedial measures could be aligned/ focussed on the karmic imbalance at hand. 

Like my spiritual guide used to say.. Identification of the problem was 75% of the remedy. Today, this adage was finally proved true. In fact, that this revelation came so close to Janmashtami, the birthday of Lord Krishna, already aligned me with the remedies and measures to be undertaken on that day. . 

Conclusion: the astrologer giving the rightful remedy is but a medium of the Lord above, choosing the vehicle to deliver our karmic resolution, and liberation.. at the appropriate time!! 

 🙏🏼🙏🏼🌷🌷Jai Shanidev 🌷🌷🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 17: Saturn Mars Opposition

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water - Jaws 2

Yes! Just when I completely retired from writing Retrograde posts, this transition came up to my notice..
Retrograde Saturn in Pisces opposing Mars in Virgo.. PEAKING on 9th August, Saturday, 10 am, IST.

Just when we celebrated the ending of Mars + Ketu ( Angaraka yoga) in Leo.. 🔥🔥Mars in Virgo 👉🏼👉🏼🔥🔥👈🏼👈🏼opposing Retrograde Saturn in Pisces.. Began.. 🤬🤬

Also, yesterday I met some really dear friends in a close knit family party. Looks like.. the husband and wifey read my EVERY post on Retrograde!! But NEVER reached out... to ask the many questions they had..!! 🔥🔥🤬🤬🤬🤬 Yes, this means you.. Dhruv and Sanjana!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥. .

 Anyways.. Instead of posting NEW posts.. I'll continue to upload / update on THIS VERY POST until the 9th August.. Next Saturday.. FOCUSSING ON THIS OPPOSITION TRANSIT! thanks 🙏🏼🙏🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 16: Movie - Butcher's Crossing

Prologue

24th July, Thursday, day 12 of 14 days of Red Hot Rising phase of annual Saturn retrograde. As mentioned in the earlier post, Mars Ketu deep conjunction in Purva Phalguni, pada 4, Scorpio Navamsa, made it scorchingly Hot like Hell from Sunday afternoon to Wednesday morning. How Hot and Apocalyptic was this crossing? A movie brought these emotions to life, artistic expression. Which I saw half on Tuesday night, half on Wednesday night. Exactly at this omnious crossing of two phases. If you see my posts from seven years back, each Saturn Retrograde, I had coincidentally come across great Epic movies which expressed the flavour, taste, quality of Saturn retro through that particular sign, prevailing planetary transits at that time, transit and sign.

Retrograde Epic Movie

The plot is simple. In the Old West, a young student Will Andrews drops out of Harvard, comes to the frontier to join Buffalo hunter Miller ( Nicholas Cage) in a hunting expedition. This was during the period of great demand for Buffalo hides. 

Unlike other hunters, Miller is in quest of a great mythical massive herd in a remote land. Where other hunting trips take less than a week, their expedition runs into several months, because of the bloodthirsty greed of Miller. The three man crew is left to the mercy of the harsh elements of nature far away from civilization. 

And in the course of their prolonged, damned, apocalyptic, journey, as the naive Harvard dropout Will, questions his own intentions seeking adventure, we, as an audience, question our own innate bloodthirsty, greed, lurking within us, in our quest, ambition, to become GREATER than others, in our search of glory and achievement.

 
The Buffalo is the official vehicle/ animal upon which both Lord Shanidev and Lord Yama, ride upon. In the frontier land, the technical Bison, is mentioned as Buffalo. But they are sub species of the same Buffalo genus. Their complete oblivious ness, their stationary state, even when they are being shot down, massacred, completely shows the current Retrograde motion.

 The sheer butchery, savage, rawness, of the hunting expedition for buffalo hide, shows the exact energies of Mars Ketu deep conjunct in Purva Phalguni, pada 4, Scorpio Navamsa.

 
The sheer Dumbness, numbness of the low score of the general audience review shows the apathy, of the herds, as they stand stationary, in the face of great spiritual crises, trapped in their own, cosy existential limbos.

I saw Mandy stg: Nicholas Cage, during the second Covid lockdown, in the Great Conjunction, namely Saturn, Jupiter, and Pluto, after 100 years, in Capricorn. It was brutal like the times prevailing. 

And Butcher's Crossing by comparison is more like a documentary, factual narrative of a Buffalo hunting expedition gone wrong. More objective, distant, detached. The response is completely upon the viewer. It also shows that, post Covid, since our relationship to social media, digital platforms have increased manifold, our empathy has manifold decreased. Our apathy, insensitivity, as we are sucked into the existential limbos of our narrow individual existences. 

Gloomy??
NOT if you find yourselves watching such existential films during such Retrograde transits, WHEN, you're SUPPOSED to be in this state of self questioning, introspection, as per the schedule of the great wheels of time and fate.

Prologue

I was supposed to blog about a amazing new branding line, my client/friend, has bravely launched. I was supposed to blog about a new healing method that I have found.

But I guess not... not before I had to cross the butchers crossing, and retrograde/ retrospect into violent legacies from our past lives lurking inside our subconscious. The invisible effects and remnants of which we experience in our daily lives. And needs to processed. Especially during this time..

Also, yesterday, a great trailblazer, rockstar comet, Ozzy Osbourne passed away. I was a fan of his more haunting, Saturnine songs.. 👇🏼

👉🏼Fire in The Sky - Ozzy Osbourne 👈🏼

This favorite haunting, smouldering track of Ozzy strangely reflects the poster, mood, plot, and especially the ending... of the movie I reviewed above 🙏🏼🙏🏼🔥

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼Jai Shanidev 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 15: Titanic Taandav

From Sunday, 20th July, 2:10 pm, afternoon to Wednesday, 23rd July, 8:50 am, the fiery, volcanic, Mars Ketu conjunction, ie Angaraka Yoga, in Leo, in Purva Phalguni Nakshatra, comes together in a Volcanic Clash in its fourth Pada.. SCORPIO Navamsa!!

This is FURTHERMORE much more MAGNIFIED and ACCENTUATED because.. This is running COMPLETELY PARALLEL to Saturn Retro 2025. ESPECIALLY it's volcanic, Rajasic preface of Gravitas phase. And the current Red Hot Riding Phase. 🔥🔥🔥

CONCLUSION

From Sunday afternoon 2pm to Wednesday morning 9 am... 

For some of you, a portal beyond unimaginable energy has opened after a gap of 18 years! You have been feeling this intense surge of energy these last two weeks.. In your blood, veins, within.. So go for it.. Make the Leap.. NOW!! 

And for others, these last two weeks have been 🤢🤢🤢😵‍💫😵‍💫🤢🤢.. How much more signs you need, just take a breather, take rest, just relax, chill out, hide under a rock.. In this period..

🙏🏼🙏🏼That's ALL todays post is about 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 14: Sun Saturn Swamp

I ran out of steam in these past 13 posts about Saturn Retro 2025. From last two days, COMPLETELY LEFT IT TO Shanidev to provided the impetus, inspiration to continue. And at noon, one call + what's app provided the basis of my next possible post 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

This was from Ravi Deka, my school senior, and close friend, bro, guide, and  astrology journeyman from 1987. Composite bamboo Boat maker, innovator, fuel innovator, etc, etc, etc 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

👉🏼Linked in profile: Ravi J Deka👈🏼

List of illustrious achievements are uncountable, BUT SO ARE negative experiences, calamities in his life, read his blog.. 👇🏼👇🏼

https://ravideka.blogspot.com/

My today's topic is about his morning what's app message (at top) where he's  pushing his latest boat prototype over marsh, land,  মেতেকা: water hyacinths.. even to reach the water. Yet, chanting the Lords name! A Sisyphean situation. But  despite uncountable and unlimited obstacles, this Man somehow never gives up!! Is it due to lagna Lord Sun in in 10th house, He who Maketh his Own Destiny.., EVEN THOUGH it's conjunct with Saturn, his 6th, 7th Lord!! 

Currently, his Leo ascendant house  has Ketu + Mars forming volatile Angaraka Yoga extremus until 27th July! Still, this man pushes onward!! Still, he continues climbing the precarious Red Hot Rising Retro mountain (13 - 27 July) of annual Saturn Retro 2025. 

I had previously blogged about him in my third blog 👇🏼👇🏼 but it was an erratic, fun post👇🏼

👉🏼Experiment with Moonstone 👈🏼

Not like this Retrograde, overloaded, Sisyphean post, full of the furnace, heat of the Vulcan industry. Where you're yourself physically pushing a boat you designed.. to reach the water 💧💧💧

Reminds me of the Werner Herzog movie.. Fitzcarraldo, where the protagonist moves a ship over jungles and mountains in the deep Amazon jungles.. 

Epilogue/Swamped

Morning, I was drowning in this series, a period story based on the marshes in Essex, a sea serpent, a superstitious fishing village, progressive priest played by "Loki", widowed naturalist, cutting edge doctor in a swampy, medieval, marshy, village setting

And reality imitates what art I'm watching. Another Bro, whose bank account got suddenly frozen due to KYC non compliance, and might have to go to hometown Gwhy, on borrowed funds!!

Yet another, an architect, whose site technician whose from Calcutta got electrocuted in his site, in the deep remote town of Haryana, and ALL the ensuing  complications this calamity implied!!! 

So, excuse me, if I abruptly wrap up this post..  Because.. I'm feeling a bit.. swamped. . 🔥🔥🔥

Saturn Retro 2025: 13: Bat From Beltola

Epilogue

From yesterday, the Red Hot Rising phase of annual Saturn retrograde 2025, has begun.. namely, from 13th - 27th July. The most intense first two weeks of Saturn retrograde!! It's only because of my keeping on constantly: 11 posts through the previous Gravitas phase, namely, 28 jun - 12 July, I can SOMEHOW continue narrating my experiences/ observations through blogging..

My usual eccentricity, electric restlessness temporarily GONE. Just a monotone drone, a flat graph on the oscillator monitor, without a pulse. The monotone Deadening hum of DC voltage. A perfect, mind numbing, deadening hum of the ongoing Saturnine schedule. Which, somehow, after a gap of SEVEN YEARS, I have accidentally resurrected/ restarted..

Today, I kind of feel empty, vacuous, after all that movement. Now that Red hot Rising Retro phase has begun for the next two weeks, how will I handle it? How will I continue, with the retrograde process??!!

One side of me says: forget it! Leave it at 12 posts! Another side: it's NOT complete until this Red hot Rising phase is over!

Celebration and Poisoning

I'm at Wework 16th floor after a looong time. My sister/ colleague/ Architect Shweta is leaving for.. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵 Japan🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🙏🏼🙏🏼 on Wednesday for a week, to attend a Architecture conference where she is going to be awarded for the nth, infinite time for her designs. Rajasic Retro Super blast!! 🔥🔥 as she's staying in..🗼🗼Tokyo 🗼🗼!! She might be visiting 🗻🗻🗻Mount Fiji too 🗻🗻🗻!!

Ahem, 😏😏😏😏, like I was saying, for Rajasic people..this time of 14 + 14 days! Gravitas + Red Hot Rising phase.. 27 jun - 28 July.. A time of Red hot crucial break through.. Window..

I got a chocolate cake from downstairs Modern Bazaar, to celebrate her victory. And was waiting for them for long time. Impatiently, angrily, I began eating the cake until this.. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Obviously, very soon, I started having the stomach cramps AGAIN!! Impatience, greed, rage, adrenaline, not working out too great.. 🤢🤢🤢🤢.. 

Bat from Beltola

I searched for some medicines in my bag, and all I found was this Bat Statue.. Which I got from a client in Beltola, hometown Guwahati. As part of 3 ghostly things not in place in her home. She couriered it to me in Delhi, long after I had left hometown. I constantly carried it around, in my bag.. and got checked at least 28 times in these past days, in the Metro, because of its size/ shape. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Later, out of boredom and stomach cramps, I started to click the Bat Statue with my favorite pendant, Tarot Card 12: The Hanged Man. BOTH UPSIDE DOWN in their natural state, BOTH Retrograde in their natural flow.

Then I started to remember my early childhood in Beltola.. 

Childhood in Beltola

In about 1980, we moved from a rented place in Kharguli to our own home in Beltola. It was all paddy fields, thatched houses, no electricity. 

Father was mostly away in tours. During monsoon, Mother used to park her car at Hazarika uncles house, few houses from Tiniali, and walk muddy, raw roads to home. Much later we got electric poles and electricity. A giant house, raw bricks, massive windows. Village life. Playing with village children, paddy fields.

After dusk darkness fell. It became a place full of legends and ghosts.. 

" Don't go to the hillocks alone, it's got wild spirits" . 

"Don't roam around after dusk." Etc . 

Our maid reported many ghostly stories regularly. Neighborhood was rife with weird scary stories! It was part of  our Daily Life!! 

Amongst all of them, was the legend of Betala, a preta, hanging upside down from lonely trees. 45 years later, when I do the math.. Beltola - L = Be-tola= Be-tala. 

But THEN... when all was Dusk and haunted. NOT NOW... the densely crowded, high towers, high priced real estate it's become... 

And the beautiful crafted Bat statue, not from anyone,of my Delhi or Global friends or clients regularly romping through the world. But from a client, a resident.. from an inner by lane in Beltola.. 

...Yeah!! 🔥🔥🔥🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼!! 

Prologue

My friend Egghead send me pics as he visited his childhood hometown in Golaghat. A 100 year old priniting press, vintage cars, a 100+ year old bicycle, his childhood primary school established in 1886...Still running. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

...It's as Retrograde as it gets..

🙏🏼🙏🏼Jai Shanidev🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼