About This Reading
What This Reading Is, And How It Works
Your kundli — the Vedic birth chart — is the snapshot of the sky at the moment and place of your birth. Every other Vedic reading rests on this chart: planetary placements, house meanings, classical yogas, and the daśā (period) system that frames your life’s timing.
What This Reading Tells You
- The exact sign and degree of every planet at your birth, in the sidereal frame.
- Your rising sign (lagna), the twelve houses, and which planets occupy each.
- The classical yogas active in your chart — Pañca Mahāpuruṣa, Gajakesari, Rāja-yoga, Dhana-yoga, and others.
- Your Vimśottarī daśā timeline — which planetary period you are in now and which come next, mapped across your lifetime.
Classical Tradition
The kundli framework comes from Maharṣi Parāśara’s Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra — the foundational textbook of Vedic astrology — supplemented by Varāhamihira’s Bṛhat Jātaka, Mantreśvara’s Phaladīpikā, Kalyāṇa Varma’s Saravali, and the Jaimini Sūtras. The chart system has been read continuously in India for at least two thousand years.
How We Compute It
We compute your chart with the Swiss Ephemeris — the same precision-grade astronomical library used by the world’s most respected astrology software — applying the Lahiri ayanāṁśa (sidereal-frame adjustment) and whole-sign house system that the classical texts use. Two charts for the same birth data always come out identical.
How To Read The Result
Begin with the rising sign and the placement of its lord. Read the strongest planets first (especially those in their own or exalted signs), then the active daśā period to understand current themes. Cross-reference with the Navāṁśa (D9) chart for finer detail on marriage and inner life.
Frequently Asked
- Why does my Western sun-sign differ from my Vedic sun-sign?
- Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac (anchored to the equinox); Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac (anchored to the fixed stars). The two diverge by about 24 degrees today — roughly one sign back. Both are internally consistent; they ask different questions.
- Do I need an exact birth time?
- For the rising sign, the daśā periods, and the houses — yes, ideally within a few minutes. For planetary signs alone (Sun, Moon, Mars, etc.), an approximate time is enough. If you don’t know the time, we compute a solar chart and lean on the Sāmudrika reading.
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