The DaFinsTro Blog
Financial astrology, backed by data. What the NIFTY record actually shows.
Astrology in the Markets: Gann, the Teji-Mandi Tradition, and Wall Street's Open Secret
Serious money has consulted the stars for over a century — from J.P. Morgan's astrologer to W.D. Gann to India's Teji-Mandi manuals. A sourced history of financial astrology, the legends that outran the evidence, and why the honest response is to measure it.
2026-06-10
Jyotiṣa and the Market: The Classical Sources of Indian Financial Astrology
A survey of the textual basis of Indian market astrology — Jyotiṣa as a Vedāṅga, the mundane (Saṃhitā / Medini) branch, the economic chapters of Varāhamihira's Bṛhat Saṃhitā, the wider corpus that survives only in citation and manuscript, and the modern Teji-Mandi literature descended from it.
2026-06-09
Data-Driven Financial Astrology: What It Means to Actually Test the Sky
What astrology is, why it endures, what statistics is, and how the two meet — the scholarship on celestial market effects, and how we test 323,000+ patterns against 35 years of NIFTY data instead of guessing.
2026-06-08
Which Retrogrades Actually Move NIFTY? The Folklore, the Scholarship, and 36 Years of Data
What a retrograde really is, what astrology and finance scholars say about celestial market effects, and what 36 years of NIFTY data shows about every planetary retrograde — ranked and duration-adjusted.
2026-06-07