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🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 12: Heaven and Earth

Epilogue

Saturn Retrograde has officially begun from yesterday, 13th July, Sunday, BUT I've ALREADY done 11 posts about the Gravitas phase... the two week phase before the official date. And, all that build up, impetus is NECESSARY if you're going to work with Saturn Retro energies! You can't just wake up on Saturn Retro day and just start working with it. It's impossible to blog, write about something as HUGE as Saturn Retro, starting from the day of Saturn Retrograde. It's too huge to tackle on a human level.

So now, having done that for last two weeks, I'm kind of logged in to the inertial flow. And continue to blog about the FIRST TWO WEEKS of Annual Saturn Retro.. the very very intense.. Red Hot Rising Phase. Marked red in all the graphs. Two weeks of extreme intense energies.. either way.

Heaven and Earth

On the very First day, official date, of Saturn Retro 205, 13th July, Sunday, I stepped out of home (otherwise, Sundays are ALWAYS at home), to attend the Matsya Sparsha function of Bina aunty, a family friend, who had departed for her heavenly abode on 3rd July. The Adya Sraddha and Naam was on 12 July, Saturday, which I couldn't attend due to exhaustion ( check previous post). Matsya Sparsha is the day when the family ceremoniously serves the favourite food of the departed, amongst other rituals. It sees the resuming of normal, non vegetarian diet, after the mourning of the 11 days of hobis diet.

Even though there was a variety of food served I ONLY took fried fish as per my own rituals commencing on 4th of July with the family. And copious amounts of whiskey + ice, in paper cups, which I sneaked out from the kitchen.

Later, after the guests had left, the whole extended family gathered in the living room with me.

There was an issue of a resolution of a property and they wanted my suggestions. It was natural because on 4th of July, when I had visited, I had cast the horoscope of the moment of departure for heavenly abode, and had obtained the wishes and messages, and astrological rituals connected with the departed soul. And now their question completely SYNCHRONIZED with that chart 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Ketu+ Mars in 4th house, shows karmic issues with home+ property. What was the way to resolve it? See 2nd house: Sun + Jupiter, a close family friend will guide about the resolution method. That was me the astrologer visiting the family on the ceremonial occasion.. On a Sunday. Check my uncharacteristic, stiff upper lip Victorian selfie uploaded on Sunday, at that moment on Instagram story.. Combusted Jupiter in Gemini.. 😅😅👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

And what are the further tell tale signs of this advisor/ medium of advice? Check 11th house, Pisces, where Saturn + Neptune are deep conjunct at 7 degrees in the Saturnine Nakshatra of Uttar Bhadrapad, deep sea serpent lying at the bottom of the ocean. 

Check my 10th post of Saturn Retro... Its all about the Saturn Neptune in Uttar Bhadrapad..!  Link 👉🏼 10th post on Saturn retrograde 2025 👈🏼

Some  events were written.. in/ by... destiny/fate.. itself.. We merely needed to understand decode it.. 

Prologue/ Conclusion

In fact, I feel, the ball was set in motion, when I visited the grieving family on 4th of July, and analysed the rituals to be followed, which they diligently followed up. And yesterday was the mere conclusion, wrap up of this entire Retrograde unfolding! On both the days, it was not natural, but took effort for me to reach their place.

Proves my point totally and completely, that one SHOULD begin this entire process two weeks, prior to the official date of commencement of annual Saturn Retrograde!! Because, yesterday my Oracle like shamanic performance providing advice for the joint property issue.. was merely a release founded/ grounded upon the continuous ritual build up through the Gravitas phase.

Heaven and Earth

As she ascended to Heaven

With Sun Jupiter wings of light

Also with Saturnine help.. 

Downloaded the advice.. 

 to her family

Praying for her.. on Earth..

🙏🏼🙏🏼🌷Jai Shanidev 🌷🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 11: Earths Core Magma

Today's my 11th post on Saturn Retro 2025. And in intrinsic continuance of the thought process of previous posts. And their Gravitas build up.

I'm dazed and sleepy, earlier having woken up early, to drop a young lass to T3 terminal, along with her parents (my childhood friends) to go to Australia for higher studies. Later, which I found.. was the SAME lass.. who created my Instagram account on 17 June 2017.. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

..when Saturn Retrograde was in Moola conjunct Natal Rahu, creating Shrapit Dosh. ALSO, when I checked the date of the birth of my Instagram.. 17 June 2017, the Saturn Retrograde, was at the fringe edge of Yellow Phase, just about to get into Blue/ Ebbing Retro phase, which is great for Saturnines.

CONCLUSION: If I had JUST checked ONCE and maybe started it JUST FOUR DAYS LATER, on 21st June.. history/ temporal events could have UNFOLDED in a completely different.. PRODUCTIVE DIRECTION..!! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

But NOW, me digging deep into the past, Retrospective of Retro 2017.. after Seven years.. Is the HEAVIEST yet most Scheduled / appropriate thing to do.. BECAUSE it's only NOW, that the birth of Instagram on 17 June 2017, has finally found it's APPROPRIATE Saturnine use.. This Lifelong Process of private blogging finally getting shared to ➡️Instagram Threads ➡️Instagram Stories ➡️Facebook stories.... Like it was supposed to be.. SEVEN YEARS BACK.. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬!!

Rajiv has finally completed his Serpentine drawing above 👆🏼👆🏼.. 

And the early morning vaccum, and sleep deprived hungover void that follows you thereafter, immediately. And that, in light of the Gravitas phase, is most ideal to tap into. Log into. Worst is that I have another Freemasonry meeting few hours later, and the duties dumped upon me, at the last moment, is really adding to the heavy burdensome, lethargic, ennui, of this current situation.

To write about writing while in the process of writing. To think about thought while in the process of thinking it out. To contemplate about contemplation while in the process of contemplation/ retrospection. Card 12: of the Tarot: The Hanged Man

Sunday 11:30 am, 13th July

Saturn Retrograde 2025 officially begins.. 

Yes!! It has begun..and THANKFULLY I'm done with 11 posts ALREADY. All the ultra heavy posts.. that I posted during Gravitas! Just imagine them.. Hanging/ pending/ looming/unposted till now.!! The Retrograde Gravitas would have hit me FULL FORCE! The sheer energy overload upon the psyche..of great indecipherable magnitude. 

Thankfully, being vent out, post by post, day by day.

From today, a new phase, theRed Hot Rising retro begins.. 13th July - 27 th July,

Also so Incredible to witness many are experiencing life changing, landmark events EXACTLY at this time. Like I predicted for all Rajasic/ Fire/ Air ruled people. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Another close friend of mine found meaning, direction, love, exactly over the past Three days. One who passed through darkness for a long, long, long time. 

Didn't expect the timing.. To be So Sharp 🔥🔥😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

So! All Rajasic people, please beging something NEW over the next 14 days!! And all Saturnines, please continue to follow my lead... And continue to descent/ deep dive..

Prologue

My Freemasonry meeting after a gap of three months went quite well, despite me getting wet in rain, teaching late, doing my duties clumsily, etc, etc.. It turned out okay.. By inertia.. So i conclude today's post with a selfie in regalia, and a AI generated Victorian rendition of the same 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼Jai Shanidev🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 10: Levitas and Gravitas

Today's my 10th post on annual Saturn retrograde 2025. After 9 heavy marathon posts, I took a break on Ekadashi/ Sunday. But took days to overcome the inertia from this "brief" rest..!!!

As I explained in my previous posts.. the Gravitas phase represents extreme Gravity/ for Saturnine people, and extreme Levity/ Lightness/ Anti gravity for Rajasic people.. I continueth...

Levitas

Many Rajasic people around me reported phenomenal breakthroughs. Unforseen sudden breaks! During this Gravitas period ✅✅✅. And then this...

On the space/ astronomy level 👇🏼👇🏼some unbelievable news 😱😱👇🏼👇🏼

Terrifying Object Found in Deep Space

Voyager interacts with unbelievable space entity

From childhood obsessed with extraterrestrial life, SETI, aliens, etc, but first signs happening now in Gravitas phase of Saturn Retro 2025.

Gravitas

Even though my stomach illness of past week had considerably healed, some remnants of it REMAINED and the lethargy, ennui, swamped, heavy, overwhelming feeling continued. As per the sheer gravity of the Gravitas phase.

The true essence of Keeping it ordinary. Heaviness. Retrograde and Repetition. To specifically maintain the older and colder things. To remain in a circle/ loop. Close circuit

Mourning/ Healing/ Retrospect

After 10 days of delay and trepidation I finally called my childhood friend who had reached back hometown from Germany because of the demise of his father. I told him.. It took me TEN whole days to call him up and express my grief. Because of our childhood so inextricably TIED together. So intensely, closely, and in so many serpentine knots. I told him, he should give months and months of space and time to resolve these emotions. As it took me TEN days to just call him up and share our emotions and give him healing advice. Such deep seated HEAVINESS excavated during GRAVITAS phase. Bringing up SO many buried memories. Like an archaeological excavation. A romp amongst the dinosaur bones. The fossils of forgotten Yesteryears

Wherein I'm inextricably buried inside a viscous swamp .

Dark End of the Deep Sea

Today, I feel, like I've descended into a dark abyss below the ocean. And encountering bizarre, luminous, and yet deep sea creatures.

Interesting thing is when I asked AI to generate an image of above, Lord Neptune came up. Neptune is the ruler of Card 12 of Tarot representing The Hanged Man, representing stagnation, contemplation, deep occult meditation. Often my second blog saw name/ avatar change as Neptunian Chronicles, which is one of my ruilng planets...

All in all, i got many queries about Uranus in Gemini, etc. But all this is an effect of Saturn retrograde in Uttarbhadrapad, it's own Nakshatra. Last time this happened was in July 2015, ten years back! Check the events from that. But this time retrograde Saturn effects are more intense as Uttar Bhaadrapad represents a serpent of the deep residing on the ocean floor.

The Mooladhara/ Root chakra beneath the Oceans and Water of Swadhisthsna/ Navel chakra. Hence the shaking, knocking, turbulence in our foundation structures. This is the Vedic astrological explanation of the current turbulence.

Today's my 10th post on annual Saturn retrograde 2025. After 9 heavy marathon posts, I took a break on Ekadashi/ Sunday. But took days to overcome the inertia from this "brief" rest..!!!

As I explained in my previous posts.. the Gravitas phase represents extreme Gravity/ for Saturnine people, and extreme Levity/ Lightness/ Anti gravity for Rajasic people.. I continueth...

Levitas

Many Rajasic people around me reported phenomenal breakthroughs. Unforseen sudden breaks! During this Gravitas period ✅✅✅. And then this...

On the space/ astronomy level 👇🏼👇🏼some unbelievable news 😱😱👇🏼👇🏼

Terrifying Object Found in Deep Space

Voyager interacts with unbelievable space entity 

From childhood obsessed with extraterrestrial life, SETI, aliens, etc, but first signs happening now in Gravitas phase of Saturn Retro 2025.

Gravitas

Even though my stomach illness of past week had considerably healed, some remnants of it REMAINED and the lethargy, ennui, swamped, heavy, overwhelming feeling continued. As per the sheer gravity of the Gravitas phase.

The true essence of Keeping it ordinary. Heaviness. Retrograde and Repetition. To specifically maintain the older and colder things. To remain in a circle/ loop. Close circuit

Mourning/ Healing/ Retrospect

After 10 days of delay and trepidation I finally called my childhood friend who had reached back hometown from Germany because of the demise of his father. I told him.. It took me TEN whole days to call him up and express my grief. Because of our childhood so inextricably TIED together. So intensely, closely, and in so many serpentine knots. I told him, he should give months and months of space and time to resolve these emotions. As it took me TEN days to just call him up and share our emotions and give him healing advice. Such deep seated HEAVINESS excavated during GRAVITAS phase. Bringing up SO many buried memories. Like an archaeological excavation. A romp amongst the dinosaur bones. The fossils of forgotten Yesteryears

Wherein I'm inextricably buried inside a viscous swamp .

Dark End of the Deep Sea

Today, I feel, like I've descended into a dark abyss below the ocean. And encountering bizarre, luminous, and yet deep sea creatures.

Interesting thing is when I asked AI to generate an image of above, Lord Neptune came up. Neptune is the ruler of Card 12 of Tarot representing The Hanged Man, representing stagnation, contemplation, deep occult meditation. Often my second blog saw name/ avatar change as Neptunian Chronicles, which is one of my ruilng planets...

All in all, i got many queries about Uranus in Gemini, etc. But all this is an effect of Saturn retrograde in Uttarbhadrapad, it's own Nakshatra. Last time this happened was in July 2015, ten years back! Check the events from that. But this time retrograde Saturn effects are more intense as Uttar Bhaadrapad represents a serpent of the deep residing on the ocean floor.

The Mooladhara/ Root chakra beneath the Oceans and Water of Swadhisthsna/ Navel chakra. Hence the shaking, knocking, turbulence in our foundation structures. This is the Vedic astrological explanation of the current turbulence.

Saturn Retro 2025: 09: Sun Saturn Teamwork

Today's my 9th post on annual Saturn retrograde 2025. I announced earlier on Instagram Threads, that I'm taking a break from this Retro post Marathon. Especially on this Ekadashi/ Sunday. But thankfully the inertia of my process. Compels me to open the note on my phone and type. Keeping up the Retrograde spirit.

The illness of past week help jump start the process. And now with some minimum effort from my side I can keep it going through the critical phases of Retrograde. Just keep the Gravitas flowing. 

And also I notice, from the previous posts, the writing, narrative has become pretty ordinary. Describing mundane things. Keeping it ordinary. The true essence of Retrograde. Trying to reconnect with the regular/ rigorous process of blogging about Saturn Retrograde from 2010- 2011. Making up for the discontinuity / discontinued blogging from 2018 - 2024. 

As mentioned in details in👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Main Saturn Retrograde Page  👈🏼👈🏼... Main Saturn Retrograde PAGE/ NOT POST, the Saturn Retrograde period is great for Sun, Mars, Pluto, Rajasic, Fiery, Malefic Saturn people, people with Retro Saturn in their charts.. To start something New, take the leap, Quantum jump/ leap.!!!
But for Saturnine like me.. Just let go. Ebb, regress, chill out, do older, retrograde stuff.  RETROGRESS 🔥🔥🔥✅

And now, that I have RECONNECTED with the retrograde process, now my job is to RETROGRESS as much as possible!! At this time I have MOST people around me having Retrograde Saturn in their birth chart!! 

Like I told many of you.. Let's do this RETROGRADE Marathon Run. You become the rocket that TRANSCENDS GRAVITY! And i become the exhaust flame, propulsion that FLAMES DOWNWARD!!  SPECIFICALLY according to your chart!! You Make Hay While The Sun Shines. And we Dive Deep into Gravitas. 

Yo.. Upward Triangle 🔼🔼
Me.. Downward Triangle🔽🔽

I have seen this annual teamwork see me through Uncountable Retrograde seasons.. 

Saturn Retro 2025: 08: Karmic Chronicles

Today's my 8th post on annual Saturn retrograde 2025. Today being the EIGHT/ Saturn ruled post, has to be REALLY Saturnine, Heavy, layered, loaded. It's simply a requisite. I would even be strangely/ ironically relieved if readers don't even proceed further...

 
These past days of illness kept me bound at home. Immersed in Gravitas. Immersed in uncountable layers gathered together in the course of two decades of Saturn retrograde experience and research. But then, THIS is the perfect annual time for Saturn ruled people to effortlessly sink to great depths. . implode Inwards, like a white dwarf star collapsing into a black hole.

And for Rajasic, Sun ruled people to shine.. 

 
Recently, every post gradually saw a great build up in Gravitas. Even though, OUTSIDE of Retrograde I'm NOT a writer. But WITHIN the schedule of Retrograde, thoughts and words flow.. like a FLOODTIDE, a Tsunami. WITHIN the schedule of Saturn retrograde, I get to ramble on, meandering in serpentine coils.. flowing all over the place.

 
Looking back at 20 years of Saturn Retrograde accounts, I'm compelled to wonder, what's the purpose/ significance of my astrological existence, at least from planetary perspective. 

I have two separate blogs.. this one on Saturn/ Shanidev, and one on Ketu. Is direct result of Saturn conjunction conjunct Ketu at the SAME degree 10° 26' in Ardra, Gemini. I was BORN at the exact degree Saturn and Ketu exactly OVERLAPPED. IN THE NINTH HOUSE. Showing a birth with extreme Karma. And the Dharma of which was DEFINED by Saturn Ketu conjunction. Where the soul takes birth to clear loads of prarabdh/ pending karma of ancestors. In fact, while swiping through some random reels I found a post saying this exact thing on Instagram reels.

Especially during Saturn Retrograde, this effect is manifold magnified because Ketu is permanently retrograde. And Ketu is the gateway of past Karma. A direct dispositor of the past. Also in Vedic parlance, the overlord of Saturn/ Shanidev is Yama, the God of Death, and overlord of Ketu is Chitragupta, the cosmic karmic accountant who narrates the karmic accounts before the soul is cast into heaven/ hell, and ecleriences the next rebirth according to his karmic roster of good/ bad deeds.

 

From 2008, after having 24 hr internet access at home, I think slowly I started the religious/ rigorous process of blogging about Saturn Retrograde from 2010- 2011 , LOTS of stuff happened then. But I'm thinking more about the years I discontinued blogging from 2018 - 2024, and the events that happened to me. In the true tradition of Retrograde.

 Also, comes to my notice that most close people around me have Retrograde Saturn in their charts. So that entails that I guide them during this phase to avail of various opportunities that arise for them SPECIFICALLY during this period. For them.. It's this adage.. Make Hay While The Sun Shines. But for us, Saturnine it's a period of Dissemination..
.. A sowing that bears no fruit. A scattering, dispersion of energies. Hence the imperative hibernation and regression that we experience. 

But fir Rajasic, Fiery, Sun ruled, mslefic Saturn people, this can be a time of great breakthrough.. 

At the end, remember, Shanidev/ Saturn is not the dreaded dark Lord as distorted by superstition. Understand the divine energy of Shanidev.. 

..and you shall never feel alone.. 

Saturn Retro 2025: 07: Ketu + Mars in Leo

Today's my 7th post on annual Saturn retrograde 2025 and topic is the current fiery Ketu + Mars in fiery Leo🔥🔥 Why is a ongoing volcanic transit like this SO significant for the ongoing Saturn retrograde???

BECAUSE it's occuring in Leo which is 6th house from Pisces, where retro is happening. Also from Leo, the sign Pisces falls in the 8th house. I don't have to explain the negative impact of 6th and 8th house. Moreover, in Graha Maitri system of planets, planets falling in 6th and 8th house from each other become temporary enemies. And this accentuated by the fact that Mars is permanently opposed to Saturn. All in all.. a deadly hot sauce mix🔥🔥🔥!

Question arises, how can this extra volcanic sauce can be positive/ gainful during Saturn Retro?? Because it perpetuates, accentuated, and AMPLIFIES the extreme catharsis of the first two phases of Saturn Retro, namely, Gravitas and Red Hot Rising Retro. All in all.. An extremely Hot, volcanic July. To burn away a LOT of your pending karmas and issues 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

BUT if Saturn is Malefic for you, Mars, Ketu, Rahi, Sun are benefic, and you're a Fire sign, Rajasic person, this July will see you roar like a fiery Tiger.. See AI pic i created at bottom of this blog.. 👇🏼👇🏼

Peripheral transits can be either productive, or counter productive towards the annual Saturn retro schedule/ process. We have to correlate it with the sign/ house placement of the sign Saturn is retrograde in. In this case, an extra cauldron of volcanic energy is being added to the already boiling cauldron of Saturn retro.

 
Personally, today i stepped out of the house yo visit a friend/ client whose mum had passed away. The simple metro, rapid metro ride to sec 51 Gurgaon seemed so long due to my weakness. After giving the mantras etc for the departed soul, suddenly I felt so weak. Dropped in on a couple on the verge of divorce. With great difficulty and PAIN, asked them to postpone their decisions by at least 3 months. 

 Both these cheerful home visits drained me completely. Returned home early to blog and complete today's heavy duty post... 

 
Now that I'm home, I'm glad today's day went the way it did. In the stagnant swampland of utter Gravitas. And NOT in a joyful celebratory way. There's a time for joy, and a time for tears. 

In fact, today, as I healed much more, I could ironically feel the standard Tsunami / FLOODTIDE of words prevalent through the past entire week.. reduce/ebb/drop QUITE A BIT.

But, as my friend, Goat Head, (mentioned in the previous post) had said yesterday..after reading the post about him.. "Finish EIGHT Retrograde posts by Saturday!! " Aptly time prediction, I must say!! Finally.. enjoy the AI image I generated on the current Saturn retro in Pisces plus Mars + Ketu in fiery Leo. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 06: Shrapit Dosh

Today's my 6th post on Saturn Retrograde 2025. Through the medium of these posts I have been able to negotiate and transit through the sheer Gravitas phase of this retrograde (check post 1: scheduled dates). The posts have sprouted spontaneously because I'm lying at home, recovering from my ailment.

 
Gravity/ Gravity pulling us down to the Mooladhara chakra at the base of spine. The foundation of our being/ existence. Beneath the software of personality. Below the Operating system of character. Down to the primal machine language of our hardware.

 
I'm now giving a pause of few hours, going to temple to pray, etc. So that today's post topic automatically comes to me... from Shanidev 🙏🏼🙏🏼

5:20 pm. I got the topic for the Day: Shrapit Dosh. When I was in hometown Guwahati 3 months back for a long, long time, I had many occasions to visit Maa Kamakhya for prayers and worship. Trouble started when my friend Goat Head 👇🏼👇🏼a stubborn sulky goat, 

yet full of capricious eccentricities told me to perform a Chinnamasta Yagna to absolve my Rahu issues. I was full of doubt, BUT STILL, overcome by my friends constant insistence, I completed the Chinnamasta Yagna. But for 1.5 months thereafter, I was yet to see ANY positive symptoms. I forgot all about it.

But lately, after I resurrected Saturn Retrograde blogging after a gap of Seven years, I often found myself looking at the last post 👇🏼👇🏼 on 18 June, 2018, 

I casually found myself wondering WHY had I discontinued. Today casually while talking to my friend Egg Head, the topic was raised. I did the chart for that time and this is what came out 👇🏼👇🏼

Saturn was transiting dreaded Moola nakshatra where my NATAL Rahu was located. In my natal chart it was Saturn + Ketu in Ardra in 9th, a opposite Shrapit Yog. And this, this opposite Transit was forming a super toxic Shrapit Yog because of this DEADLY combination. And SEVEN years later, ONLY after I did the Chinnamasta Yagna, this Dosha was Overcome and I could COMMENCE my annual Tapasya/ Sadhana of meditation, contemplation, blogging during annual Saturn retrograde. 

While browsing through some other topic I also found this 👇🏼👇🏼.. randomly..

So I offer my salutations to Ma Chinnamasta, and thanks to the suggestions of my friend Goat Head.. for enabling me to overcome the toxic effects of Shrapit Yog.. And to commence my annual practice of writing, reporting, blogging, for years and years.. This eternal/ necessary/ mandatory practice of mine who hath Saturn + Ketu in 9th house.. 

..This observation and tapasya of.. Annual Saturn Retrograde.. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼