Maybe I blogged about this before, but in case I never did...
In Hinduism, each individual is ideally supposed to have an "ishta-devata". That is, a deity the individual in question is particularly devoted to. One way of finding the ishta-devata is to let an astrologer cast your Vedic birth chart. It´s a rather complex process which I won´t describe here.
As a little experiment, last summer I asked both ChatGPT and Gemini to analyze my Vedic chart (they couldn´t cast it) and tell me my ishta (that is: my ishta had I been a Hindu). The results were...interesting.
Gemini - which back then was boring and predictable - reached the conclusion that my ishta is either Lakshmi or Gauri (i.e. Parvati), two very safe Hindu goddesses. ChatGPT, by contrast, was the edgy AI and proposed the decidedly less safe Tripura Sundari, a Tantric goddess often associated with the Sri Vidya tradition in southern India. Weirdly, ChatGPT then refused to give me the "secret" mantras for her worship?! Was the system really leading me on?
Astrologically, all these goddesses seem to be associated with Venus, which apparently occupies a central role in my Vedic chart (less so in my Western one). Obviously, I have no idea if an actual Indian astrologer would come to the same conclusion.
Make of these factoids whatever you wish.
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