The Vedic month of Chaitra (March-April) is a time of great importance because it marks the beginning of the astrological new year Vedic. It is a threshold. A passage. A moment when not just a date on the calendar changes, but a new breath of time opens up, with new configurations, new challenges, new inner possibilities. Just March 18, I drew the charter of the year 2026-2027, and I will be holding a webinar very shortly to tell about it and to talk about what we can expect from this stormy period.

It will be a important meeting, because I would like to do more than just describe events. Above all, I would like to offer you a key to understanding how to live in evolutionary and fearless way the challenges and opportunities of this new vedic year. In times like these it is easy to get carried away by anxiety, disappointment, the feeling of disorder. But Vedic Astrology, when read in the right perspective, teaches us that there is always a larger context, a longer breath, An invisible plot that makes sense of even the most difficult events.

The meeting will include a admission ticket, but it will be free for Academy students And for those with DNA because part of the training.

And this year, April 1, this Chaitra threshold will not only be April Fool's Day. It will also be the day dedicated to one of the greatest spiritual and moral examples enshrined in Rāmāyaṇa history: Hanuman.

Indeed, April 1, 2026, since Pūrṇimā tithi falls before dawn, and this is the reference we are interested in here, is celebrated Hanuman Jayantī, the day on which Hanuman's birth is celebrated. And it is no coincidence that this festival falls on Chaitra Pūrṇimā, in the heart of a month that speaks of beginning, renewal, vital momentum, and passage to a new cycle. Hanuman Indeed, it appears as a force that awakens, protects, encourages and directs. In a time of bewilderment, Hanuman reminds us that authentic strength comes not from ego but from devotion.

Hanuman is described as a vānara, belonging to that humanoid race present on Earth at the time of the Rāmāyaṇa, with more ape-like characteristics than present-day humans. He was born to Kesari and Añjanā, but it is also known as the heavenly son of Vāyu, the god of wind. That is why he is called Pavana-putra Hanuman, the son of the purifying wind. This detail already tells us a lot: Hanuman is not only a heroic figure, but a manifestation of prāṇa, of movement, of life force, of sacred momentum. It is energy that is put into the service of Dharma.

His mother, Añjanā, was an apsarā, a celestial damsel from the Deva planes, born on Earth because of a curse. Her redemption would come with the birth of a son. In many Puranic and medieval narratives, the birth of Hanuman is recounted with different details, but always with an aura of wonder. The Varāha Purāṇa and the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa tell that shortly after his birth, Hanuman leaped towards the Sun, mistaking it for a fruit. This episode is also reminiscent, in some ways, of the gesture of Rāhu, trying to swallow the Sun, but in Hanuman there is no hostility: there is the irrepressible innocence of a cosmic force that is still childlike, tending naturally toward the light.

The place from which he made this leap is identified with Venkatagiri. After Brahmā and Indra struck him with their weapons, he fell, and Añjanā Devī began to weep in despair for her son. To appease her, the heavenly beings, the Deva, descended to Veṅkaṭācala and granted Hanuman numerous gifts and blessings, declaring that place would be called Añjanādri Hill. That is why, among the seven hills of Tirumala, one is known as Añjanādri. This sacred geography reminds us that myth is never just storytelling: it leaves traces in the landscape, in the memory, in the devotion of places.

The Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa states that. his father Kesari was the son of Bṛhaspati, the guru of the Deva, the cosmic administrators. He was the king of a region called Sumeru, located near the kingdom of Kiṣkindhā, near present-day Hampi, in the present-day Vijayanagara district of Karnataka. This detail is also significant, as it links Hanuman not only to wind and strength, but also to divine wisdom and guidance through the lineage of Bṛhaspati. Añjanā, moreover, would have accomplished intense Prayers to Śiva for twelve years, desiring a son. Pleased with their devotion, Śiva granted the son they sought. In this sense Hanuman also appears as a manifestation of the grace that descends when austerity and prayer are carried out with perseverance.

Another very beautiful narrative is found in the Bhāvārtha Rāmāyaṇa of Eknāth. Here it is told that while Añjanā was worshiping Rudra, King Daśaratha of Ayodhyā was also performing the Putrakāmeṣṭi ritual., under the guidance of the wise Ṛśyaśṛṅga, to obtain children. As a result, he was given some pāyasa, a sacred food that was to be shared among his three wives and would lead to the birth of Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa, Bharata and Śatrughna. By divine ordinance, a bird of prey took away a fragment of that pāyasa and dropped it just as he flew over the forest In which Añjanā was immersed in his worship. Vāyu arranged for that sacred food to reach the outstretched hands of Añjanā, who consumed it. From this act Hanuman was born. This is a wonderful story, because it unites Hanuman's destiny with that of Rāma from birth. Even before the meeting in the Rāmāyaṇa, there is already a divine plot that binds them together.

Hanuman is one of the greatest examples of selfless service to Rāma, an example of devotion, love, courage, and strength used well. He is not strong to dominate. He is not heroic to be admired. He is not powerful to crush others. His greatness comes from the fact that everything in him is service-oriented. Hanuman shows us. A form of force purified from the ego. A force that does not want to put itself at the center, but to make itself available. That is why his figure continues to speak so profoundly today. In a world where energy is often used to control, manipulate, impose, or react, Hanuman teaches us that the highest force is one that knows how to protect, sustain, serve, and remain true to the good.

From the perspective of Vedic Astrology., Hanuman and the chanting of the Hanuman Cālīsā are considered to be. Powerful remedies for Saturn in the natal chart. This is true both when experiencing a Śani period and during particularly intense transits, such as the Sade Sati. Indeed, tradition tells us that Hanuman freed Śani from the clutches of Rāvaṇa, and received the blessing that anyone who remembered Hanuman with affection and devotion would be relieved of Saturn's harshest effects. And we know well how demanding Saturn can be: it pains, slows down, creates obstacles, impoverishes, blocks, demands discipline, sobriety, patience, renunciation, maturity. But for this very reason Hanuman becomes a valuable ally: because it makes us teaches how to cross the burden without breaking down. For this purpose, these remedies are made mainly of Saturday.

Hanuman is also a powerful remedy for Mars. It helps to manage the energy of conflict, war, anger, violence, impulsiveness and force when it is in danger of going off its axis. When there is a Mars in excess, or when Mars creates problems of conflict with others, thinking of Hanuman on Tuesday works deeply on these energies. Hanuman reminds us that martial force need not become aggression. It can become protection. It can become moral courage. It can become the ability to fight for a just cause. It can become discipline of body and mind. It can become energy that liberates and helps others. Like Hanuman, we can Channeling Mars into actions that support the Dharma: protecting, intervening when needed, competing nobly, fighting for something bigger than ourselves.

In this sense Hanuman is an extraordinarily timely figure. Because we live in a time when both Saturn and Mars, individually and collectively, are being felt in very strong ways. On the one hand burdens, fears, slowdowns, a sense of trial. On the other tension, conflict, exasperation, reactivity, war. Hanuman shows us a third way: Do not repress strength, but consecrate it. Do not flee difficulty, but pass through it with devotion. Do not use power to inflate the self, but to serve what is right. This is why his birth, celebrated in Chaitra Pūrṇimā, is not only a religious festival : it is a most profound spiritual call for our time.

Perhaps one of Hanuman's most beautiful gifts is precisely this: reminding us that devotion is not weakness. Humility is not passivity. Service is not inferiority. Indeed, in the Hanuman tradition, the devoted heart is also the strongest heart. The heart that truly loves is also the heart that can deal with pain, risk, distance, fatigue and trial without losing its center. Hanuman is not only a symbol of physical strength or heroic valor. It is a symbol of inner strength ordained by love.

So I wish you a wonderful Hanuman Jayantī, may it bring you courage, protection, clarity, devotion and well-directed strength.

And I remind you that very shortly we will have two very important meetings.

We will meet to talk about the Vedic year 2026-2027 and to understand how to live without fear and without disappointment the challenges of these times, understanding the world's unfolding even at the subtle and invisible level. For beneath the chaos we see with our eyes, there is also an invisible world that is more orderly, and learning to read it can profoundly change the way we are in life.

E we will also meet to talk about the Astrological Retreat that we will do in June 2026, a special time when we will also try to align ourselves with the planetary energies of the period, in order to benefit as much as possible, not only on the level of understanding, but also on the level of lived experience.