3 Signs You're Being Scammed By An Astrologer ft. Deepanshu Giri

In this eye-opening episode of Something Bigger with Rodrigo Canelas, we sit down with Deepanshu Giri, founder of Lunar Astro Vedic Academy, bestselling author of Rituals of Happy Soul, and one of India's most recognized Vedic astrologers. Having spent years studying planetary charts, ancient texts, and thousands of real-life case studies, he challenges nearly everything popular culture gets wrong about astrology.Most people think astrology is either total nonsense or a magic wand where the right gemstone, the right puja, and good fortune arrive. Deepanshu dismantles both extremes in the first few minutes. Astrology, he says, cannot make you a millionaire if it's not in your chart, and it cannot conjure "good times" out of nowhere. What it can do is deliver consciousness, showing you your red flags, your blind spots, and the patterns that will keep repeating until you see them clearly. He backs this with a claim most astrologers would never admit: when his team ran longevity formulas across 125,000 birth charts, the traditional principles held in less than 8% of cases a number so low it reshaped how he approaches the entire practice, turning him, in his words, into "more of a data engineer than an astrologer."The conversation moves through territory rarely discussed this openly. Deepanshu breaks down why five minutes can separate two completely different life paths (using the Newtonian idea of space-time to explain planetary micro-charts), why he believes karma from your parents' actions literally shows up in your birth chart, and how Mahatma Gandhi's difficult Saturn placement became the very engine of his greatest transformation through conscious deprivation rather than resistance.This conversation isn't just about astrology or ancient prediction systems. It's about the deeper, uncomfortable question of how much of our lives is genuinely a choice, and how much is conditioning we've never paused to examine. Deepanshu's core message cuts through both blind belief and blind dismissal: the value isn't in prophecy; it's in the clarity to finally see yourself honestly enough to change what's actually within your control.Before you dismiss this as fate, or chase it as magic, ask yourself how much of your life right now is a conscious choice, and how much is just conditioning you've never questioned?Time Stamps:(0:00) – Introduction(2:09) – The Biggest Myth: Why Astrology Cannot Make You a Millionaire(3:08) – A Real Chart Example: What Makes Certain Scandals Inevitable(4:37) – Why Royal Marriages Share the Exact Same Planetary Combination(5:34) – The Real Job of an Astrologer: Delivering Red Flags, Not Comfort(6:59) – How Mahatma Gandhi Turned His Hardest Planet Into His Greatest Strength(11:04) – Can You Really Change What's in Your Chart?(13:34) – Testing Astrology Like a Scientist: The 125,000-Chart Study(15:20) – Why Charts Change Every Two Minutes(15:57) – How Your Parents' Karma Literally Shows Up in Your Chart(16:22) – The Grandmother's Devotion That Shaped Three Generations(21:20) – The Designer Who Was Wasting Her Life Running Factories(25:12) – King Farouk of Egypt and the Fortune That Couldn't Last(25:52) – Where Astrology's Ancient Wisdom Actually Comes From(27:52) – The Real Difference Between Reading a Text and Understanding It(28:52) – How He Learned to Read a Billionaire's Chart Like Bill Gates(30:52) – The Two Real Reasons Anyone Ever Comes to an Astrologer(32:00) – Why Astrology Answers Are Changing in the Age of Same-Sex Marriage and Green Cards(33:09) – Why Three Astrologers Can Give You Three Completely Different Answers(34:47) – The Lost Qualities of a "Proper" Astrologer, According to Ancient Texts(40:52) – The Corrupt Practice That Breaks His Heart Most(41:33) – Why He Refuses to Ever Sell a Gemstone(45:57) – The Remedy That Works and the Ones That Are Pure Theater(50:11) – The Abuse Survivor Told to Leave Everything Behind, Starting Today