https://sreebalakrishnan.in/antara/ Reads the sky twice — verifiable astronomy beside interpretive Jyotish, Western for contrast. A fortnightly letter for fellow students of Jyotish. en Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:30:00 GMT https://sreebalakrishnan.in/antara/?edition=02 https://sreebalakrishnan.in/antara/?edition=02 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:30:00 GMT A fortnight ago, Jupiter entered Cancer and we asked what it means to call something an “event.” This edition stays with that question through the year’s most concrete turning point: the June solstice. The Sun visibly turns south — a thing you can measure with a stick — yet the calendars don’t agree on when to call it so. They split by about 25 days, and that gap, hiding in plain sight on a wall calendar, is the whole subject of this newsletter. https://sreebalakrishnan.in/antara/?edition=01 https://sreebalakrishnan.in/antara/?edition=01 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:30:00 GMT This edition began with a message from a friend — Aditya’s “Happy Jupiter getting exalted day to everyone 🤸”. A celebration of something in the sky; except nothing up there actually changed today. Exaltation (uccha) is a convention, not an event. That small gap — between what we say happened and what the eyes can verify — is what every edition of Antara holds open.