Its pace.
On a Charged day you might hear something steady and strong to carry the energy; on a Rest day, something gentle.
- Rest
- Gentle
- Balanced
- Steady
- Charged
Music · संगीत
The sound of this hour.
Devotional music matched to your day, the hour and your chosen deity. RitamSage is astrology and music together: each prahara of the day has its raga, each weekday its deity, and your day its own pace.
- Place
- Calgary
- Coordinates
- 51.04° N · 114.07° W
- Local time
- …
Shown for Calgary. The app uses your own place and birth chart.
The hour
Sample sound of the hour. The app plays the full RitamSage library.
The idea
Three things decide what plays.
Music in RitamSage is chosen, not shuffled. The same three readings that shape your day shape what you hear.
Its raga.
Morning brings brighter, awakening pieces; evening and night bring slower, settling ones. Classical time theory gives every watch of the day its ragas.
Its devotion.
The deity you feel close to: Ganesha, Shiva, Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Krishna, Rama, Hanuman, Kartikeya or Vishnu.
Put it on while you get ready, light a lamp, or sit quietly for ten minutes. The music is there to accompany the day, not to fill it.
Ragas of the hour
Eight watches, eight moods.
Indian classical music keeps time with the sky. The day from sunrise to sunset and the night from sunset to sunrise are each divided into four praharas, and each watch has ragas that belong to it.
- Purvahna · Day · first watchSunrise to mid-morningBhairavthen Todi or Bilawal as the morning growsAwakening and devotional: the day opening its eyes.
- Madhyahna · Day · second watchMid-morning to middayJaunpuriSerious and devotional: the work of the late morning.
Aparahna · Day · third watchMidday to mid-afternoonBrindavani SarangBright and still, like Krishna's noon in Vrindavan.- Sayahna · Day · fourth watchMid-afternoon to sunsetMultanithen Puriya Dhanashri or Marwa as the sun setsWarm and searching, as the shadows lengthen.
Pradosha · Night · first watchSunset to mid-eveningYamanafter Puriya Dhanashri or Marwa at duskSerene and devotional: the hour of the lamp.
Nishitha · Night · second watchMid-evening to midnightBageshrior the grave Darbari KanadaLonging and tenderness in the quiet of night.- Triyama · Night · third watchMidnight to the small hoursMalkaunsMeditative, five notes: the heart of the night.
- Usha · Night · fourth watchThe small hours to sunriseLalitafter Sohini in the last of the nightThe stillness just before light, and Brahma muhurta.
Prahara lengths change with the seasons: each day watch is a quarter of the time from sunrise to sunset, each night watch a quarter of sunset to sunrise. Raga timings follow the classical north Indian tradition; schools differ in the details.
The ten deities
Music for the deity you feel close to.
Choose one in the app and the music follows it. Each is traditionally sought for something of its own; some are honoured on a particular weekday.
From the Beyond Conscious label
Devotional music, made for listening.
RitamSage plays devotional music from the Beyond Conscious label, chosen for your day's rhythm, the time of day and the deity you feel close to. The music is licensed for personal listening within the app.
Our mark is Tumburu, the horse-headed gandharva who sings to the gods with his tanpura: music as a way of keeping time with the world. What you hear on this page is a sample, synthesized in your browser: a tanpura drone and a slow line in the raga of the hour.
