Planetary positions
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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 siderealமேற்கத்திய tropicalசுவிஸ் நாள்காட்டி5400 BC — 5400 AD
One submit, six layers of insight
Every chart returns the same six sections — laid out as a reading, not a data dump.
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 |
Frequently asked questions
The questions we’d ask if we were new here.
Is this birth chart calculator free?
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What is the difference between a birth chart and a horoscope?
A birth chart is the unique map of the sky at the moment you were born — it changes only with your birth data. A horoscope is a forecast for a given day or month, based on how the sky is moving relative to that map.
What if I don't know my exact birth time?
Use 12:00 noon as a placeholder. Your Sun, Moon (within a few hours), and planetary positions will still be accurate. Your Ascendant and house placements need an exact time.
Tropical or sidereal — which should I use?
Western astrology uses tropical (season-based). Vedic / Jyotish uses sidereal (star-based). Neither is "right"; they measure different things. You can toggle either on this page.
What house system should I use?
Placidus is the default for modern Western astrology. Whole Sign is the traditional choice and is gentler with extreme latitudes. We support seven systems.
Why is my Sun sign different in a Vedic chart?
Because the two systems use different zodiacs. Vedic / sidereal accounts for precession (a 26,000-year wobble of Earth's axis), so its signs sit about 24° back from the tropical ones you grew up with.
What does it mean if a planet is retrograde in my chart?
Apparent backward motion. About 20–30% of people are born with at least one retrograde planet. It is not bad — that planet's energy simply turns inward and asks you to revise, rework, refine.
What is a stellium?
Three or more planets in the same sign (or the same house). It concentrates the chart there — that sign's themes become a chord, not a single note.
How accurate is this calculator?
Arc-second precision. We use Swiss Ephemeris, the same engine professional astrologers use. Timezone is detected from your birth city automatically.
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