About · The Astral Society
A practice, not a platform.
The Astral Society is the work of one founder, Neeraj Babbar — not a content mill, not a venture-funded app, not anonymous. Every reading, every dispatch, every methodology decision is his.
The Founder
Neeraj Babbar
Founder · Astrologer · Editor
I founded The Astral Society for one reason: there was no English-language astrology publication that read like the practice I had learned in private — precise enough to be useful, literate enough to be taken seriously, and answerable to a real person with a real method.
My training is bilingual. I work with classical Parashari Jyotish — the Vedic system formalised by the sage Parashara — because it is the most analytically rigorous astrological tradition that survives. I read Western charts because the psychological vocabulary of the tropical zodiac speaks to a modern reader in ways the Sanskrit terminology can't always reach. Every chart calculation on this site uses the Swiss Ephemeris, the same astronomical engine professional astronomers and observatories rely on. No shortcuts, no approximations.
What I will not do: tell you what you want to hear, predict outcomes the chart does not support, or pretend a fixed-fate framework is interpretive astrology. The work is descriptive and structural. A natal chart describes the architecture of a life; what you build inside that architecture remains yours.
Every editorial dispatch on this site is written by me. There are no ghostwriters, no AI-generated articles, and no content-team-of-twelve. The dispatch is slower than it could be on purpose.
Standards of Practice
How readings are done.
Birth data first, always
No reading without exact date, time, and place. If the birth time is unknown, the reading is bounded — Ascendant and house placements are flagged as approximations, never asserted as fact.
Both zodiacs, declared
Vedic readings use the sidereal Lahiri ayanamsha; Western readings use the tropical zodiac. The framework is always named so the reader knows which system is being applied.
Swiss Ephemeris under the hood
Planetary positions, divisional charts, dasha periods, and transits are calculated via the Swiss Ephemeris — the standard used by professional ephemerides and observatories. No simplified algorithms.
Descriptive, not deterministic
The chart describes structure. It does not dictate outcome. Every reading flags where the natal pattern presses hardest and where you retain the freedom to choose.
Absolute privacy
Birth data submitted to The Astral Society is used solely to generate your chart. It is never shared, sold, or used to train any model. Subscriber email addresses are stored on a server I personally control.
Reach Me
Questions or readings.
For private consultations, editorial enquiries, or a question about a transit you are reading about elsewhere, the concierge line goes directly to me.