Our biorhythms are affected by astrological phenomena on subtle planes. Dr. H. Spencer Lewis pointed out in a magazine article that "all of us breathe differently through the nostrils according to our psychic, physical, and mental conditions, and according to the influences of the planets upon our psychic bodies..." Rama Prasad, who exhausted the subject of the yogic science of breath in
says that the left nostril is connected, astrologically, with Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces, whereas the right nostril is connected with Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Saggitarius, and Aquarius. All the astrological planets affect the way we breathe through our nostrils - infact, the astral body was so named, originally, because it was thought to be influenced by the planets, but the principle planet here is closest, the moon. The "moon breath" is affected by our moon and is stronger during the two weeks of its waxing rather than its waning... (continue...)