This course integrates celestial mechanics with traditional yoga teachings as described in the Tantras to understand the path of Time.
People think astronomy and celestial mechanics are cool, but rarely do people take the time to learn how the astrological bodies are actually interacting with the Earth.
When we learn how these external movements in the sky impact the movement of Prana and our experience on Earth, there is an embodied experience of the unity of microcosm and macrocosm.
The first class is available openly for the next week or two:
2025 Sunday Schedule
April 06 -Welcome
April 13 -Time in the Vedas
April 20 -Tantrāloka 1-6
April 27 - No Class [Amavasya]
May 04 -Time in Pancaratra [NAMA]
May 11 -Tantrāloka 7-20
May 18 -Time as Destroyer
May 25 -Tantrāloka 22-27
June 01 -Vāra and Graha
June 08 -Tantrāloka 28-60
June 15 -Tantrāloka 61-68
June 22 -Prahara, Yama, Kalā,
(Tantrāloka 69-75)
June 29 -Yama and Kalā
July 06 -Ghatika and Muhurta
July 13 -Hora [PJC mantra class]
July 20 -Hora and Day length
(Tantrāloka 85-88)
July 27 -Tithi (Tantrāloka 76-85,89-99)
Aug 03 -Tithi and tithi length
(Tantrāloka 109)
Aug 10 -Angular Units and night sky
Aug 17 -Night sky and nakṣatra
Aug 24 -Night sky and nakṣatra
Aug 31 -Metonic Cycle
Sep 07 -no class/sadhana for Lunar Eclipse
Sept 14 -Eclipses (Tantrāloka 100-108, 110-113)
Sept 21 -no class/sadhana for Solar Eclipse
Sept 28 -Sunrise
Oct 5 -Vedic Calendar
(Tantrāloka 122-123, 125)
Oct 12 -Seasons (Tantrāloka 114-122)
Oct 19 -Brihaspati Samvatsara Chakra (Tantrāloka 123-124, 126-128)
Oct 26 -Relativity of Time
(Tantrāloka 129-167)
Nov 02 -Class before Kartik Purnima
Nov 9 & 16 -Collective work on 360 Kalachakra syllables
One Time Payment $801
or 9 Payments of $100
SOL2 Graduate Student
Here is an example of the complexity of the Yoga of Astronomy which is simple to understand once there is a proper foundation:
If the vighaṭīkā (24 seconds) is superimposed on the microcosmic orbit of the breath, it is measured as 1 and 1/5th aṅgula (or 1.2). There are 30 vighaṭīkā in the inhale (1.2 × 30 = 36), and 30 vighaṭīkā in the exhale. This creates 60 vighaṭīkā of 1440 seconds, equivalent to one ghaṭīkā (24 minutes). The ghaṭīkā has the same ratio to the day: there are 30 ghaṭīkā in the day and 30 at night, which add up to 1440 minutes (24 hours). There are twelve hours in the day, and twelve at night. Each hour is three aṅgula of orbit in the breath (3 × 12 = 36).
Within the day-night, there is a traditional three-hour division known as a prahara (called a watch in English). Three hours is equal to nine aṅgula of space within the orbit of the breath. This equates to four tuṭis of time.
A prahara contains four tūṭī (4 prahara of 4 tuṭīs = 16). The aṅgula is a division into 36 units of space, while the tuṭī is a division into 16 units of time.
There are four prahara in the day and four prahara at night. The four prahara of the day correlate to 36 aṅgula (4 × 9), and then there is a 36 aṅgula of the night, making a total of seventy-two aṅgula in the orbit cycle. There are 16 tuṭīs (4 × 4) during the day, and 16 at night, making a total of thirty-two tuṭīs in the orbit cycle. The conjunction (sandhya) between the day and night is a half tuṭī on each side of the conjunction, equivalent to one muhūrta.