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Soot of Stars

Soot of Stars

Written by: Janit Gambhir
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 Star Suite: Reassembling the Sky We live beneath a fragmented heaven. Once, humanity read the night sky as a single, coherent text - a cosmic scripture where every star was a syllable, every constellation a chapter in an epic spanning creation, consciousness, and time itself. This scripture wove together astronomy, myth, and fate into a unified science of meaning. That text was shattered. Its pages were scattered across cultures, labeled as separate “mythologies”: Greek, Vedic, Egyptian, Aboriginal. Its grammar was forgotten. Star Suite is an project to reassemble it. This is not astrology. It is celestial archaeology. We are recovering a lost cosmography. Through Four Interlocking Portals: The Codex Almanac: A definitive guide to 600 stars, restoring their identities as nodes in a vast story. 2. The 108 Steps: An audio pilgrimage along the Moon’s ancient path through the 27 Nakshatras, the original lunar zodiac. 3. The Vasudeva Map: A video series decoding a rediscovered 81-panel Indian sky mandala—a precise dream-map of the cosmos, featuring the 9 serpentine energies of Soma-Vasudeva. 4. The Living Globe: An interactive website where you can rotate this ancient sky, watch its stories transform with precession, and see the Hercules mythos as a planetary initiatory path laid upon the zodiac. This is a single system. The Nakshatras are its rhythm. The 81 archetypes are its alphabet. The Navagraha (planets) are its animating force. Join filmmaker and mystic Janit Gambhir in restoring context to the cosmos. Learn to see the sky not as random points of light, but as the oldest and most profound book ever written - a book we are just beginning to remember how to read. Welcome to Starsoot the channel. No longer an empty sky, but replete as a reservoir of stars, the sun and the moon.© 2026 starsuite.space Astronomy & Space Science Philosophy Science Social Sciences Spirituality
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  • Episode 3 – Rebirth

    Episode 3 – Rebirth
    Feb 25 2026
    The Upanishads describe a cosmic horse whose bones are the stars. On this second step of the Moon's path, we follow that horse through the chain of Andromeda (the karmic knot), the clay of the Kumaras (the shaping of form), the fire of the Phoenix (rebirth beside the Sages' knot), the clock of Horologium (time itself), and the girdle of embodied form. The horse carries gods, celestials, asuras, and finally man. This is the second step.

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    22 mins
  • Cosmic egg of creation – Hiranyagarbha

    Cosmic egg of creation – Hiranyagarbha
    Feb 14 2026
    Bhrigu’s Kick and the Cosmic Egg What existed when nothing was? In that dreamless slumber before creation, the stars began their stories. And here, on the first degree of Aries, we take our first step into the 108-fold path of the Moon. This episode is a descent into the origin myths of the cosmos. We ... Read more

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    25 mins
  • Starsuite – Introduction to the Soot of Stars

    Starsuite – Introduction to the Soot of Stars
    Feb 7 2026
    The very essence, origin point and sacrament to living spirit in the universe is considered the Milky Way, of which our galaxy is named after. This, Milky Way is collection of thousands & thousands of stars collected together almost as a path through the sky. We see it, at least in the northern hemisphere as an archway or white threaded sheet wrapping the sky holding it together. The path of spirit, so to speak, of all stars. The Brahmins called this the ‘Janeyu’, the sacred thread. At some point, billions of years ago, the milky way entered what became our galaxy. Upon the star of the rock, Keph, or Alphirk the Beta Cepheus, this living receptacle the starry universe descended. And a waterfall of stars descended upon a rock. Water and Fire, fused into awakening, and our galaxy took shape. To the Indian mind, this is the Shiva-Linga, the basilisk-phallic symbol of Water falling upon it to make holy. Cepheus, the constellation of the old king is known to the Indians as Sheffali, an epithet of Shiva. An Indian holy book, Kali-Purana says in the beginning, there was only darkness. Mahamaya existed in the inert state as Yoga-nidra, the sleeping universe. And then with this, waterfall of fire, the universe awakened in our galaxy. Shiva, as a god-head is said to represent the entire universe as our galaxy’s context of spirit. The pure crystal heart of knowledge of the one beyond the worlds. Both feminine and masculine energies are his Shiva-Shakti form as the phenomenon and the awareness. While the Kalika Purana starts its stories from 8 degrees after Aries point, which is the beginning of the Zodiac, we attempt to trace the steps a little further back. From evolution of form even before language began to form.

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    16 mins
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