come is greatly reduced. The same reasoning applies to the houses and lords of the
houses for the matter under consideration. For example, if the muhurta is for buying a
property, the fourth house, fourth, lord and the primary indicators for property in Indi-
an astrology, Mars and Saturn, should be well disposed in the chart of the selected time.
The synthesis of all these factors is the great challenge of the art of muhurta.
Selection of the best time possible for a particular endeavor emphatically does
not ensure a brilliant outcome if the matter is counter-indicated in the birth chart. If a
person has a very difficult pattern with respect to marriage, selecting a beautiful
muhurta for marriage will not ensure a smooth or continuous union in and of itself.
Muhurta selection, however, is one of the expressions of free will that may modify the
outcome of obstructive chart patterns and is therefore an important component of
Vedic astrology.—Penny FarrowMUISE, ROXANA
Roxana Muise, a contemporary second-generation astrologer, was born on October 1,
1935, in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from St. Catherine’s Academy in Lomita,
California, and was ordained on February 14, 1974, in the Abundant Life Church of
Jesus Christ, a spiritualist, metaphysical church based in San Bernardino, California.
She graduated summa cum laude from California State University at Dominguez Hills
in 1981 with a degree in health science.
Muise began astrological studies in 1968 with her mother, Patricia Crossley,
and graduated from the Scorpio School of Astrology in 1970. Her first teachers were
Zipporah Dobyns, Gina Ceaglio, Dane Rudhyar, Virginia Wilson Fabre, Constance G.
Mayer, Robert Jansky, Sabrinah Millstein, Al H. Morrison, James Eshelman, Lois
Rodden, Edwin Steinbrecher, Buz Meyers, Tony Joseph, Charles Emerson, Robert
Hand, Diana Stone, Arlene Kramer, and Manly Palmer Hall.
Muise cofounded the South Western Astrology Conference (SWAC) and
served as its director from 1974 to 1985. She is a past president of the International
Society for Astrological Research (ISAR) and served on its board for 19 years. She
was a founding member of the board of directors of the United Astrology Conference.
She keeps the archives for more than 10,000 named asteroids for the Asteroid Special
Interest Group (AST-SIG) of the National Council for Geocosmic Research
(NCGR) and is the a founding member of the board of directors of Kepler College of
Astrological Arts and Sciences in Seattle, Washington.
Muise is the author of A-Year-at-a-Glance: The 45 Degree Graphic Ephemeris,
which presents her method of creating an overlay of one’s natal planets on a yearly
graph that shows all hard transiting aspects for an entire year and provides a work-
sheet that instantly shows dynamic aspects between charts. She is also the author of
The Fourth Sign,based on research of historical references that give the cat, instead of
the crab, as a symbol for the sign Cancer. Muise is author of a learning CD, The Shad-
ow Ephemeris,which portrays the entire retrograde subcycle. This begins when a plan-
et first passes the degree at which it will turn direct, and ends when a planet passes theMuise, Roxana
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