The week ahead

SATURN will enter Gemini on Friday and remain in the Sign of the Twins until June 4, 2003. The next two years will be dedicated to learning about the correct use of communications - spoken, written and electronic - for all people. You will learn more about how you communicate - or don't communicate - with each other. Expect to discover ways in which to improve your self- expression, your ability to listen, and to express your intentions. On a global scale,

miscommunications between government leaders and nations will be revealed. Deeper levels of truth will be uncovered. Many questions will be raised about the nature of truth.

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QUERIES ANSWERED

As the Sun and the Moon in the same sign indicate New Moon, and the two in the seventh sign from each other indicate Full Moon, is there a short-cut indication for Asthangadha Dosham of planets close to the Sun?

G. Muthukrishnan, Tiruchi.

When New Moon (Amavasya) occurs on May 22, the Moon will not come into conjunction with the Sun until 5.57 p.m. on that day. The New Moon phase continues upto 8-16 p.m. on May 23. Even after it has passed, and Prathamai has begun, the Moon will be conjunct with the Sun upto 9.48 p.m. on May 24. Thus the conjunction of the Moon with the Sun can start from a day before Amavasya. It can extend to a day after. Asthangadha Dosha, caused by planets getting into close proximity with the Sun, should not be ascertained by "quick glance" approaches. The placements must be reckoned by looking at the Nakshatra Padas of the placements, or even better, by reckoning the proximity in terms of degrees and minutes of the arc.

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Good Dates

Moderately good dates: April 17, after 4.30 p.m., and April 21.

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