Humatari. The old calculation, in modern form.
Your birth date is a number. That is all it takes.
From the day, the month and the year, a structure can be calculated. Nine forces that relieve one another. One of them carries your whole life. The others come and go, in arcs of twenty-seven years down to the single day.
That is Humatari.
What a calculation shows
Not what will happen to you.
But which force you are standing in. Whether time is pushing you outward or inward. Whether this year is one for sowing or one for bringing in. Why something feels heavy now that came easily to you two years ago.
The nine forces can be read off the plant year, because that is how they behave: seed, sprout, shoot, stem, widening, decision, blossom, fruit, new seed. None of them is better than another. They simply stand at different places in the year.
And a number excuses nothing. It describes the current. The swimming is yours to do.
Where it comes from
The number teaching Humatari is built on is called Yantra. Swami Gitananda Giri wrote it down in Vancouver in 1965. He does not claim it as his own. He names his teacher Ram Gopal Mujumdar, and his teacher’s teacher Ram Mohan Rai, and behind them an oral tradition far older than either of them.
The decisive part is not in his book. How the cycles are actually calculated for one individual person, he never wrote down. That was given from mouth to ear, and taught only at the ashram. I received it through teachers who stand in that line, and have worked with it ever since.
What I added myself I will also name: the stones and the oils. Those do not come from the Yantra line. They come from Chinese stone medicine in the lineage of Jeffrey Yuen, and from my own work with it.
What Humatari is not
Not fortune telling. Gitananda warned against that himself, and in his last years he stopped teaching Yantra because he saw how easily it turns into exactly that. A calculation does not say what will happen. It says which force currently has time.
Not a diagnosis. No number names an illness, and none replaces a medical examination. If something is wrong with your body, it belongs with a doctor, not in a table.
No substitute for your own perception. A calculation that does not ring true for you is not a truth you owe anything to. It is a question.
How I work with it
Quietly, for now. Humatari sits beside the pulse and beside what a person tells me. It tells me nothing about you that you do not confirm yourself. It tells me when something might be due, and when it is better left alone.
I have been testing it for years on myself, on my family, and on what I see in the practice. Some of it lands so precisely that it surprises me every time. Some of it does not land, and I write that down. A teaching that cannot be shown to be wrong is of no use to anyone.
It can be learned too
Humatari belongs to the school because I pass it on. Not in a weekend, and not as a list of meanings to memorise.
Whoever wants to learn it learns the calculation first. Only once the numbers hold true for your own life does the reading follow. In the other order it becomes fortune telling, and that does not interest me.
Write to me if this interests you.
What is still coming
I am building Humatari out with Amber into something you can hold in your hand. Images for the nine forces, cards, a language that gets by without many words.
It is not ready. I am deliberately naming no date. But it is coming, and anyone who wants to know when can simply write to me.
Humatari is interpretive work, not medicine. It makes no diagnoses, replaces no medical examination and no treatment, and predicts nothing.