After the passing of her father, and the cremation she witnessed at Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi — grief changed Dr. Jeetu Pathak. It did what years of scientific training could not: it broke her open. What emerged was not despair, but a way of seeing — the ancient science of Jyotish, no longer theory memorised from books, but a compassionate map of why certain seasons arrive, what they ask of us, and how suffering can become a doorway.

The Lantern in the Dark moves between memoir and real consultations — the author's own unraveling and reassembly, alongside the quiet astrology of loss, love, karma, and healing she has witnessed since. It speaks to anyone standing in their own dark: the person who did everything right and still feels hollow, the one grieving a parent who is still alive, the one waiting for permission to finally begin living.

This is not a manual for prediction. It is a lantern, passed hand to hand — offered so that one fire might become someone's light.

• Paperback: 170 pages
• Publisher: White Falcon Publishing; 1 edition (November 2026)
• Author: Dr. Jeetu Pathak
• ISBN-13: 9789376315048
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inch

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