What Is the Dvara Method?
The Dvara Method reads the energy software imprinted on your chakras at birth, and shows how sadhana can refine it. Here is the whole idea in one place.
Every system of astrology begins with a claim about the moment of birth. The Dvara Method makes a simple one: at birth, a basic energy software is imprinted on your seven chakras.
That software is not the whole of you, and it is not fixed. It is the starting code. Your life then runs on it, gets reshaped by what happens to you, and can be refined by what you consciously choose to do.
The four forces that shape the software
1. The imprint at birth. The positions of the planets at the moment you were born, and at a second moment about 88 days earlier, switch on particular dvaras: gateways of energy in your system. The 88-day layer is there because of the belief that the soul enters the foetus roughly 88 days before birth.
2. Conditioning. The formative years overlay the original code. Much of what people call "my personality" is conditioning sitting on top of the imprint.
3. Planetary transits. As the planets move, they touch dvaras you were not born with. For a while, a part of you that is usually open is switched on, and then it switches off again.
4. Partnerships and friendships. The people you live and work with carry dvaras of their own. Close to them, your open places can be filled, and theirs by you. This is why the same person can feel like a different person in different company.
What a dvara is
There are 64 dvaras. Each comes from one of the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, and each hexagram is built from two of the eight trigrams: heaven, earth, thunder, water, mountain, wind, fire and lake.
In the Dvara Method, each trigram is presided over by a Vedic nature deity, so every dvara can be read as one deity over another. A dvara is not a label for who you are. It is a doorway through which a particular quality of energy enters your life.
When two dvaras that belong together are both active, they form a channel, and the centres at each end become defined: steady and reliable. When only one side of a pair is present, that dvara is hanging. It reaches toward something it does not yet have.
Defined and open
A centre that is defined at birth behaves consistently throughout life. A centre that is open takes on whatever energy is around it: from a partner, from a friend, from the planets passing through.
From watching many charts, one pattern stands out: the more defined centres a person has, the more stable their life tends to be. People with many open centres often describe lives that keep changing direction. This is not a flaw. It is a different design, and it asks for a different kind of care.
Not destiny: a starting point
Here the Dvara Method parts ways with systems that treat the chart as fate. The imprinted software can be improved. Personality and the direction of a life can change.
The practice that does this is sadhana: conscious cultivation. It may be meditation on an open centre, attention to a dvara's elements in everyday acts, or the deliberate development of a quality you were not born with. Many traditions of chakra and energy meditation, seen this way, are aimed at the same thing: deconditioning the software and upgrading it.
The chart shows the code you were given. Sadhana is how you rewrite it.
How to begin
- Find your Dvara Code. Your birth date, time and place give your birth dvaras, your 88-day dvaras, your channels and your open centres.
- Notice your open centres. These are the places where life keeps changing for you, and where other people and transits affect you most.
- Watch the transits. Keep a short diary of how you feel and act, then compare it with what was moving through your chart.
- Choose one thing to cultivate. One open centre or one hanging dvara is enough to start.
The essays in this journal take each of these in turn.