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Your full birth chart — Vedic and Western, side by side. Planetary positions, houses, aspects, nakshatras, daśā, yogas, doshas, and a personalised reading. No signup.
Vedic siderealWestern tropicalSwiss Ephemeris5400 BC — 5400 AD
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Houses & aspects
All twelve house cusps and every major aspect between planets, with orbs.
Vedic depth
The lunar layer of your chart, end to end.
Chart patterns
Larger geometric shapes formed across the chart.
Moon phase
The lunation you were born under and what it asks of you.
Personalised reading
Written from your Big Three, not generated from your Sun sign alone.
A simple guide to your birth chart
Two traditions, one sky. Read the system that speaks to you — or both.
The lagna
The lagna — your rising sign — is where Jyotish begins. It is the point of the zodiac climbing the eastern horizon at the moment of your first breath. Everything else in a Vedic chart is read from this single degree. The bhāvas count from it. The daśā periods unfold in relation to it. The lord of the lagna becomes the lord of your whole life: wherever it sits, that house carries unusual weight.
Because the horizon shifts about one degree every four minutes, the lagna is the most time-sensitive placement in your chart. Two siblings born twenty minutes apart can have the same Sun, Moon, and Mercury, and still live in different versions of themselves — different priorities, different bodies, different fates — because the lagna moved. Birth time matters in Vedic astrology more than anywhere else; this is why.
Rāśi vs. Sun sign
In Western astrology, your sign is your Sun sign. In Vedic, your sign — your rāśi — is your Moon sign. The Moon is the mind. It is what you reach for when no one is watching. The classical texts treat the Sun as your soul and your father, important and bright, but it does not define the inner life the way the Moon does. When a Jyotiṣī asks “what is your rāśi?” they are asking which lunar sign you were born under, not where the Sun was.
This is the first thing Western readers tend to find disorienting: your familiar Sun sign mostly drops out of view, and a sign you may never have looked at takes the lead. Don’t panic. The Sun is still there, still read carefully — it just isn’t the headline. The Moon is.
The twelve bhāvas
The bhāvas are houses, twelve fields of life counted from the lagna. The first is self, body, vitality. The second is wealth, family, speech. The third is courage, siblings, short journeys. The fourth is home, mother, the heart. The fifth is creativity, children, pūrva-puṇya — the credit you carried in from earlier lives. The sixth is enemies, debts, daily work, and disease.
The seventh is the spouse and any open partnership. The eighth is the hidden — inheritance, sudden change, the body’s end. The ninth is dharma, the father, the long pilgrimage. The tenth is karma in the visible sense: work, status, the public name. The eleventh is gains, networks, the older sibling. The twelfth is loss, expense, foreign lands, mokṣa. Each bhāva has a kāraka — a significator planet — that doubles up its meaning regardless of which sign is on the cusp.
Nakṣatras — the 27 lunar mansions
The zodiac in Jyotish is divided two ways: into twelve rāśis and into twenty-seven nakṣatras. Each nakṣatra spans 13°20′ of the ecliptic — the distance the Moon travels in roughly one night. Each has a presiding deity, a planetary ruler, a symbol, and a temperament. Aśvinī, the first, is fast and healing. Bharaṇī carries the weight of endings. Rohiṇī is fertile, beautiful, slow.
The nakṣatra your Moon falls in describes your inner instrument better than the rāśi alone can. It also sets the start of your daśā cycle. For most readers raised on Western astrology, the nakṣatra layer is the part of a Vedic chart that feels brand new — finer-grained than anything tropical astrology offers, and tied to mythology in a way the tropical signs are not.
Vimśottarī daśā — the 120-year clock
A Vedic chart is not a static portrait. It is a clock. The Vimśottarī daśā system divides a human lifetime into nine planetary periods, one after the next, in a fixed order: Ketu, Venus, Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury. Together they add up to 120 years. Where you enter the cycle depends on which nakṣatra your Moon was in at birth.
A daśā colours an entire stretch of life. Saturn daśā for nineteen years tilts a person toward discipline, slow building, loss, restraint. Jupiter daśā for sixteen years brings teachers, children, expansion, faith. Within each major period, smaller sub-periods — antardaśās, pratyantardaśās — modulate the tone month by month. Most of the predictive work in Jyotish is daśā work: reading the chart you were born with against the planet that happens to be running the show right now.
Yogas and doshas
A yoga in this context is a specific combination of planets that produces a recognisable result. Gaja Kesari yoga — Jupiter in a kendra from the Moon — is associated with intelligence and a dignified public name. Pañca Mahāpuruṣa yogas form when one of the five non-luminary planets sits in its own sign or exaltation in an angular house. There are hundreds of named yogas; a real reading touches on the few that actually fire in your chart.
Doshas are the inverse: configurations the texts flag as difficult. Maṅgal dosha (Mars in certain houses from the lagna, Moon, or Venus) is the one most people have heard of, because it shows up in kuṇḍli matching. Kāla Sarpa dosha — every planet hemmed between Rahu and Ketu — is the other famous one. A dosha is not a verdict. It is a flag: this area of life will ask more of you. The classical remedies range from mantra and charity to specific gemstones, but the first response is always honest attention.
Why is my Vedic Sun sign different?
If you have ever pulled up a Vedic chart and found yourself in a sign you do not recognise, the answer is precession. Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, locked to the spring equinox: 0° Aries is wherever the Sun is on the equinox, whatever the stars are doing. Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, locked to the actual constellations. Because the Earth wobbles slowly on its axis over a 26,000-year cycle, the two zodiacs drift apart by about a minute of arc each year.
The current gap — the ayanāṃśa — is about 24°. That is almost one full sign. A late-degree Leo Sun in tropical is a Cancer Sun in sidereal. Neither calculation is wrong; they are answering different questions. Tropical asks where the Sun is in the seasonal year. Sidereal asks which constellation the Sun is actually standing in front of. A complete reading uses whichever framework the tradition asks for and does not try to reconcile them.
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The 27 nakṣatras
The lunar mansions — each spans 13°20′ of the zodiac, with a ruling planet and a presiding deity.
| # | Name | Span | Deity | Ruler |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aśvinī | Aries 0°-13°20′ | Aśvini Kumāras | Ketu |
| 2 | Bharaṇī | Aries 13°20′-26°40′ | Yama | Venus |
| 3 | Kṛttikā | Aries 26°40′-Tau 10° | Agni | Sun |
| 4 | Rohiṇī | Taurus 10°-23°20′ | Brahmā | Moon |
| 5 | Mṛgaśīrṣa | Tau 23°20′-Gem 6°40′ | Soma | Mars |
| 6 | Ārdrā | Gemini 6°40′-20° | Rudra | Rahu |
| 7 | Punarvasu | Gem 20°-Can 3°20′ | Aditi | Jupiter |
| 8 | Puṣya | Cancer 3°20′-16°40′ | Bṛhaspati | Saturn |
| 9 | Āśleṣā | Cancer 16°40′-30° | Nāgas | Mercury |
| 10 | Maghā | Leo 0°-13°20′ | Pitṛs | Ketu |
| 11 | Pūrvaphalgunī | Leo 13°20′-26°40′ | Bhaga | Venus |
| 12 | Uttaraphalgunī | Leo 26°40′-Vir 10° | Aryaman | Sun |
| 13 | Hasta | Virgo 10°-23°20′ | Savitṛ | Moon |
| 14 | Citrā | Vir 23°20′-Lib 6°40′ | Tvaṣṭṛ | Mars |
| 15 | Svātī | Libra 6°40′-20° | Vāyu | Rahu |
| 16 | Viśākhā | Lib 20°-Sco 3°20′ | Indrāgni | Jupiter |
| 17 | Anurādhā | Scorpio 3°20′-16°40′ | Mitra | Saturn |
| 18 | Jyeṣṭhā | Scorpio 16°40′-30° | Indra | Mercury |
| 19 | Mūla | Sagittarius 0°-13°20′ | Nirṛti | Ketu |
| 20 | Pūrvāṣāḍhā | Sag 13°20′-26°40′ | Apaḥ | Venus |
| 21 | Uttarāṣāḍhā | Sag 26°40′-Cap 10° | Viśvedevas | Sun |
| 22 | Śravaṇa | Capricorn 10°-23°20′ | Viṣṇu | Moon |
| 23 | Dhaniṣṭhā | Cap 23°20′-Aqu 6°40′ | Vasus | Mars |
| 24 | Śatabhiṣā | Aquarius 6°40′-20° | Varuṇa | Rahu |
| 25 | Pūrvabhādrapadā | Aqu 20°-Pis 3°20′ | Aja Ekapāda | Jupiter |
| 26 | Uttarabhādrapadā | Pisces 3°20′-16°40′ | Ahir Budhnya | Saturn |
| 27 | Revatī | Pisces 16°40′-30° | Pūṣan | Mercury |
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Vimśottarī daśā — the 120-year clock
Nine planetary periods cover a full human lifetime. The order is fixed; the entry point depends on your birth nakṣatra.
| Lord | Years | Themes |
|---|---|---|
| Ketu | 7 | Liberation, otherworldliness |
| Venus | 20 | Pleasure, partnerships, art |
| Sun | 6 | Authority, soul, recognition |
| Moon | 10 | Mind, emotion, home |
| Mars | 7 | Drive, conflict, courage |
| Rahu | 18 | Foreign, ambition, breakthrough |
| Jupiter | 16 | Wisdom, expansion, children |
| Saturn | 19 | Discipline, structure, time |
| Mercury | 17 | Intellect, commerce, speech |
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Vedic planetary dignities
Own sign, exaltation, debilitation, and natural friends — the four positions that set a planet’s strength in Jyotish.
| Planet | Own sign | Exaltation | Debilitation | Friends |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SunSūrya | Leo (Siṃha) | Aries 10° | Libra 10° | Moon · Mars · Jupiter |
| MoonChandra | Cancer (Karka) | Taurus 3° | Scorpio 3° | Sun · Mercury |
| MarsMaṅgala | Aries · Scorpio | Capricorn 28° | Cancer 28° | Sun · Moon · Jupiter |
| MercuryBudha | Gemini · Virgo | Virgo 15° | Pisces 15° | Sun · Venus |
| JupiterBṛhaspati | Sagittarius · Pisces | Cancer 5° | Capricorn 5° | Sun · Moon · Mars |
| VenusŚukra | Taurus · Libra | Pisces 27° | Virgo 27° | Mercury · Saturn |
| SaturnŚani | Capricorn · Aquarius | Libra 20° | Aries 20° | Mercury · Venus |
| RahuRāhu | Aquarius (or Virgo) | Taurus (Gemini) | Scorpio (Sag) | Venus · Saturn · Mercury |
| KetuKetu | Scorpio | Scorpio (Sag) | Taurus (Gem) | Mars · Venus · Saturn |
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Birth chart aur horoscope mein kya difference hai?
Birth chart (natal chart) aapke exact birth moment par sky ka ek fixed map hota hai. Ye kabhi nahi badalta. Horoscope ek prediction hai jo current planetary movements (transits) ke aapke birth chart ke saath interaction par based hoti hai. Aapka birth chart foundation hai; horoscopes weather forecast ki tarah hain.
Agar mujhe apna exact birth time nahi pata toh?
Exact birth time ke bina, aapka Ascendant (Rising sign), house placements, aur Moon sign (agar woh us din sign change karta hai) unreliable ho jayenge. Sun sign aur majority planet positions phir bhi accurate rahenge. Apna birth certificate, hospital records check karo, ya family members se poocho.
Mujhe kaun sa house system use karna chahiye?
Placidus se shuru karo. Ye most astrology software aur books mein default hota hai. Agar aap Hellenistic ya traditional astrology padhte hain, toh Whole Sign houses try karo. Agar birth 60 degrees latitude se upar hui hai, toh Equal houses consider karo. Planetary positions, signs, aur aspects kisi bhi house system mein same rehte hain.
Mera Sun sign Vedic astrology mein alag kyun hai?
Western astrology tropical zodiac use karta hai (jo seasons ke saath aligned hai), jabki Vedic astrology sidereal zodiac use karta hai (jo actual star positions ke saath aligned hai). Precession ki wajah se, ye dono systems approximately 24 degrees alag ho gaye hain. Aapka Vedic Sun sign aksar aapke Western sign se ek sign pehle hota hai. Dono mein se koi bhi galat nahi hai.
Agar mere birth chart mein koi planet retrograde ho toh iska kya matlab hai?
Ek retrograde planet us planet ki energy ko andar ki taraf turn kar deta hai. Iska matlab ye nahi ki planet weak hai. Birth mein Mercury retrograde often deep, unconventional thinking indicate karta hai. Venus retrograde ka matlab unique relationship values ho sakta hai. Lagbhag 20–30% logon ke birth chart mein kam se kam ek retrograde planet hota hai.
Stellium kya hota hai aur kya ye significant hai?
Stellium tab hota hai jab teen ya usse zyada planets ek hi zodiac sign ya house mein cluster ho jaate hain. Ye aapki life ke us area mein tremendous energy concentrate kar deta hai. Zyaadatar logon ke paas ye nahi hota, toh agar aapke paas hai, toh us sign aur house par special dhyan do.
Chart ruler kya hota hai aur ye kyun matter karta hai?
Aapka chart ruler wo planet hai jo aapke Ascendant sign ko rule karta hai. Agar aapka Ascendant Leo mein hai, toh Sun aapka chart ruler hai. Iski sign, house, aur aspects aapki poori life ko kisi bhi doosre single factor se zyada influence karte hain. Isse aapke chart ka CEO samjho.
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Hum Swiss Ephemeris use karte hain, jo wahi astronomical database hai jo NASA aur duniya bhar ke professional astrologers use karte hain. Calculations arc-second accuracy tak precise hain. Agar aapka birth time 5 minutes ke andar accurate hai, toh results highly reliable honge.
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