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From Pat Deveney's database:
Astrological Magazine, The.
Contains Birthday Information and Daily Advice.
1895--2008 Monthly
Bangalore, then Madras, India. Language: English.
Publisher: Raman Publications. Editor: B. Suryanaran Row, B.A., M.R.A.S., F.R.H.S., etc; Prof. B.V. Raman, M.D.
1/1, April 1895-2008. Rs. 4-6, $2.00 a year. Suryanaran Row was the reviver of astrology in India on a "scientific" basis acceptable to Westerners, and the founder of the journal. His grandson B.V. Rahman restarted the journal in 1936 after a hiatus and edited it for 62 years. He died in 1998 and the journal ended in 2007 although it continues in digital form. The journal proclaimed its concentration on Jataka (predictive astrology), mundane astrology,
muhurtha (electional astrology) and prasna (horary predictions). Advertised in The Metaphysical Magazine, December 1901, The Occult and Biological Journal, 1902. The advertisement in Journal of Ayurveda, 1932, says that it contained "the most interesting and instructive articles on Astrology, Astronomy, Medicine, Yoga, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Chronology, Palmistry, etc., now in its 20th volume -- the only Journal in the World." The same advertisement also noted: "Exchanges solicited from Periodicals" -- a revealing indication that content took a secondary position to advertising revenue.
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The Astrological Magazine is a long-running Indian journal of predictive astrology published from Bangalore, and its pages are dense with the working apparatus of jyotisha: natal and mundane horoscopes, planetary periods, and malefic combinations such as Mars conjunct Saturn read as omens of violence or illness. It also carries the applied edges of the tradition — auspicious timing (muhurta) and the correspondence of planets to gemstones and colours used for remedial purposes. Throughout, the astrology is set within a Hindu moral cosmology of karma and dharma, framing the horoscope as a map of destiny to be met with disciplined human effort. Passing vocabulary of 'success' and planetary 'control' belongs to this astrological register rather than to New Thought or Spiritualism.
Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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