This book is not an introduction to astrology.

It is an inquiry into why Jyotiṣa works at all.

Drawing from Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra, this work treats the grahas not as symbolic indicators or external causes, but as first principles through which lived reality becomes structured. The Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu, and Ketu are presented as functional conditions that make experience, action, continuity, decay, judgment, distortion, and release possible.

Each chapter begins by establishing the graha’s ontological role, then traces how that role expresses itself across the body, mind, relationships, society, and time. Classical astrological rules are shown to follow necessarily from these structures rather than being accepted on authority. What Parāśara states is not explained away or modernized, but made internally coherent.

The book assumes that reality is already organized, and that Jyotiṣa endures because it mirrors that organization with unusual precision. Its claims do not rely on belief. They can be tested against lived experience: effort and fatigue, attachment and continuity, conflict and consequence, endurance and decay, silence and release.

Written in a rigorous but restrained style, this work is intended for readers who are philosophically inclined, astrologically serious, or dissatisfied with purely symbolic explanations.

It reframes Jyotiṣa not as prediction, but as a map of how existence participates in time.