Why we built Cosmic Chemistry

I’m Dhaval Gada. I have studied Vedic astrology for ten years, and I am still learning it. This is why I built a website around it.

What I kept seeing

People left a reading more worried than they came. They were told what would happen to them: a hard year, a bad period, a warning. Almost nobody told them what to do about it. Then came a call, and a remedy that cost more than it should.

A guide, not a prediction

I never believed astrology should be a prediction. I think it should be a guide, the way Google Maps is. It doesn’t tell you where you will end up. It shows you the road, the shortest way there, and what is in the way. Where you go is yours to decide.

The name says the same thing. Jyotish (ज्योतिष, Jyotiṣa) is the Sanskrit name for Vedic astrology, and it comes from jyoti (ज्योति), light. Light doesn’t tell you where to go. It lets you see the path.

What ten years of watching showed me

Each planet shows up in our daily habits in its own way. People who are regular with their workouts, and keep the physical side of their day in a steady routine, tend to have a strong Mars and Saturn. That means drive, and the staying power to keep going. People who notice small things, like the picture hanging crooked or the colour that is slightly off, tend to have a good Venus. These are my own observations, not something I am quoting from a text.

Where a planet is strong in a chart, the part of life it stands for tends to come easily. Where it is under strain, the same part of life tends to take more effort. Knowing which planets are strong and which are under strain, and when each one’s period comes, is what a chart is for.

Why a website, and no consultations?

This site is my years of work, built with maths, logic and experience.

I don’t believe in personal consultations, so this site will never offer one. No calls, no chat, no clock running by the minute. I wanted something that works without me in the room, so anyone can do what I did.

So the site does the careful part. It calculates your chart and reads the whole of it: career, love, money and home, with your dates. Every chapter ends with a short list to tick against your own life, so you reach the conclusion, not us. It also shows how we arrived at it.

What I still don’t know

There are questions I’m still finding answers to, and I would rather say so than pretend. Your reading needs your birth time, and it tells you how far each date moves if that time is a minute out. The method page shows how a reading is made and what we measured. As I learn more, the site changes with it.

How I check the site

Cosmic Chemistry is Vedic astrology you can check. In practice, that means four things.

• I review every calculator and article before it goes up. My name and the date sit on each one.
• Every line that says “the classical books” is checked against them: Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, Phaladeepika, Jataka Parijata and others. When a line is our own reading, it says so.
• Dates are counted openly. Your reading shows which signs line up in a year, and how many, so you can see why it stands out.
• The numbers are our own, counted on a sample of 200,000 birth charts, not repeated from other sites.

Who is it for?

It’s for people who already live by Vedic astrology, and for the sceptics. If you believe in it, you’ll find the classical reasons, checked against the texts. If you doubt it, you don’t have to take my word for anything. Tick each line, and keep what fits.

Dhaval Gada, founder