5 March 2015
Guruvar
Holika Dahan · Holi
The fire the night before the colour. Holika burns and the child does not — the tradition puts the destruction of malice before the celebration, in that order, on purpose.
The actWrite down one resentment you have been feeding and burn it in the fire. Then play, and let yourself be unrecognisable for a day.
Matched in Phalguna. Both reckonings name this month alike, so there is nothing to choose between them here. A krishna-paksha day carries two month names — purnimanta runs a month ahead of amanta — so each festival is matched by the reckoning its own name uses. This is shown so you can check it.
Purnima
The full moon. The mind is at its most expanded and least contained — the tradition's month-long high tide.
The actCharity, and something collective. Do not make a large decision tonight; you will feel more certain than the evidence warrants.
Matched in Phalguna. Both reckonings name this month alike, so there is nothing to choose between them here. A krishna-paksha day carries two month names — purnimanta runs a month ahead of amanta — so each festival is matched by the reckoning its own name uses. This is shown so you can check it.
The sky over this day
This moment
26 ghati and 58 pala have passed since sunrise.
The 14th muhurta of thirty is running.
The 4th prahara of eight.
The sun is in Uttarayana — the northward half, the sun climbing.
Kali Yuga, year 5115.
Of this kalpa, 1,97,29,49,115 years have passed.
out of 4,32,00,00,000 · 45.67%
A ghati here is a fixed twenty-four minutes — one sixtieth of a mean day, which is what the ladder below defines. The other tradition divides the actual daylight into its own proportional parts, and that is what the muhurta page computes for Brahma and Abhijit. Two conventions, both true, and VEDAUM will not quietly mix them.
Time, as Sanatan measured it →A guide to the rhythm of the year, not a replacement for your family's own panchang. Where a tithi spans two sunrises, regional convention decides which day keeps the festival, and VEDAUM shows the day its own reckoning gives.