Last Updated on July 10, 2025 by Tejaswini

It is so easy to blame. I can blame my mom for not giving me tasty food to eat as a child. Or now blame my husband for not taking me for a vacation. Or, even worse, blame my child for creating a nuisance just when I want to sleep. My clients invariably blame their horoscopes. “This Saturn is in this house and that is causing my problems!”. And most of the astrologers you meet will also ditto this very same line. But you see, that the horoscope charts out the moment when you were born! You chose to be born at that instant of time and space. It is your own choice.

We have so many unresolved and unbalanced karmas to go through and naturally this huge quantum cannot be gone through in one life. So we take a series of lives and work off certian portions of this accumulated stuff in every life. Your horoscope just shows in black and white exactly what you have chosen for yourself in this life. I hope all of you must have seen how your horoscope looks like? If not, I do use any of the free sites on the Internet to check how it looks like. (I am a Vedic/Indian astrologer so I write on this system.)

The moon in the horoscope is the primary determinant of your emotional state. If you are in a happy place emotionally the disappointments of life seem insignificant but if you are already under an emotional stress even the tiniest upsets will shatter your heart. It is all about perspective, your birth moon.

Let’s see what your moon is upto today. Here is a basic astrology lesson which can help you set your mindset for the day. And it will take only 1 minute of your time now and then 5 seconds everyday. This is how your mindset changes with the transits of the moon. The moon is the fastest graha, moving through the 360 degrees of the zodiac in 28 days flat.

Check out in your birth horoscope, which sign your birth moon occupies and mark out the 6th, 8th, and 12th signs from this. If your birth moon is in Aries then the 6th would be Virgo, counting Aries itself as one, Taurus as two, Gemini as three, onwards. Scorpio would be 8th and Pisces would be the 12th.  Now download a phone app for vedic astrology.

Check out the present position of the Moon in the sky from the Panchang submenu. If the current day’s moon is in the 6th, 8th and 12th signs which you have counted above, be mentally prepared for possible unpleasantness.

Now for the pleasant days, count the 1st and 11th from your birth moon sign/rashi, for this example it would be Aries itself as 1st and Aquarius as the 11th. When the current moon is in any of these signs rest assured that the day will be generally quite pleasant. The remaining days of the month will be average ones generally. (If you are an advanced student then try to use the Janma navtara chakra for the transit Moon readings, they are very accurate)

And as you do this small baby exercise you will learn to check your birth horoscope. Then find the position of moon in it. Then to count the rashis from your moon rashi. Next is to get in the habit of checking the current moon sign for the day (it changes every 2.25days). Also do a small daily prediction for yourself. This will also get you in the habit of being mindful throughout the day. You will note your thought process and behaviour. Also the behaviour of the others around you. As you do this beginner’s exercise daily, you will get more interested in astrology. And in a few days will be on your way to learning astrology by yourself.

So here is your first step at learning practical astrology.

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