I have never spent much time or money with jyotish as an ‘add-on’ to TM but Fairfield, Iowa has quite a lot of people trained up in jyotish and Western astrology. You can walk in most any eatery and ask patrons sitting there to get a quick answer to, what is up in jyotish? Some people are really into it. Yesterday I asked someone who was working on something else, just what is up with jyotish?
Here is the shorthand accounting: Aug 18th Lunar Elcipse Aug 24 Saturn and Mars @ 15degrees of Scorpio, Transit characterized by ANGER. There is a star in Scorpio that is the war star in combination with Mars etc.. makes it all particularly difficult. Aug 26 Jupiter Venus Mercury in Virgo (something about Saraswati yoga, good to be meditating) Aug 30 Mercury retrograde in Virgo =Havoc in Communication Sept 17 Mars Exits Scorpio, the most difficult period passes ..