about · the companion app · v4.70.1

How this came to be

All the rooms inside the app, the cohort it's built with, and the infamous blue file that started it. ← Back to home

Built alongside Vikram's Astrology 101 cohort at allthingsvedic.in. Vikram has reviewed it; the cohort is now invited in. — Sree & Sanchi · alongside the class

A small thing

What should we call you? It helps us nudge you by name where it counts — and stays only on this device.

All the rooms

Every door inside, with your why

Beyond the three rooms on home, these are the deeper peer pages. Pick the door that matches the reason you came in today.

I want to look something up

→ Learning Companion

The biggest page. Tap any tile — sign, planet, house, avatar — and a drawer opens.

I want to learn the cabinet as a story

→ Interactive

Watch Vikram's planetary court assemble. Story · Storybook · Court mode.

I want to sit with a reflection prompt

→ Reflect

Eleven prompts per avatar. Notes auto-save in your browser.

I want to see my body in the chart

→ Kālapurusha

The kundali laid into Vishnu's body — head to feet, sign by sign.

I want to understand the science underneath

→ Astronomy

Ecliptic, ayanamsha, eclipses. The mechanism, not just the meaning.

I want to see one planet across its range

→ Mercury Spectrum

Mercury seen as friend, neutral, enemy — and how to read it in your own chart.

I want to read about the retreat

→ Ether

Notes from Chidambaram. Nirvana Shatakam. The great secret.

I want to know how this came to be

→ Layers

The longer arc — month by month, layer by layer.

I want to interpret my own chartbeta

→ Interpret · beta

Pick your Lagna, place your planets, see the South Indian chart. Walk-through (Sudha's pedagogy — house by house) lands next.

I want to embody the five elementscoming soon

→ Elements page

Earth · Water · Fire · Air · Ether — each with one or two practices Vikram recommends for embodying it.

How it started

The infamous blue file

Sree's blue binder filled with Astrology 101 printouts — The blue file. Printouts of every Astrology 101 reference I might want to find in a hurry.

Every time I had to refer to astrology, I'd reach for my infamous blue file — a binder of printouts — or the iPad with all the PDFs. In a jiffy, if I wanted to find a specific piece of information, it was impossible.

I don't learn by memory. I need a lot of references all the time. I needed something pocket-friendly and handy — something I could open up and remember, or search.

That was the genesis. But it also coincided with something deep — something touching and resonating for me. I'm still yet to understand why I have a deep calling in this path. But I am in a flow, and that's what matters, right?

Read the longer arc — Layers →

— Sree

The cohort

The class is more than the teacher

A frame from the Ether retreat — Vikram's Astrology 101 cohort. The class is more than the teacher; the page is what it is because of this group.

In this picture Meera · Rashmi · Sudha · Sathvi · Apri · Anil · Kanika · Shashank · Aditya · Kiron · Shobhana — and Sanchi, partner in crime on this project.

Co-facilitating with Vikram Suraj · Megha.

The larger learning group Not all in this frame, but in the conversations: Aysha · Marie · Shweta · Sarika · Kajal · Surbhi — and more.

Mentors who shaped the path Divya · Siva · Shivangi · Shruthi. And the list goes on.

Vikram has been the teacher; this group has been the second teacher — every catch, every question, every "wait, that doesn't sound right" landed inside the page.