Kundli & Jyotish · 12 guides
Read a birth chart in context
A grounded route through lagna, houses, dashas, yogas, divisional charts and traditional remedies.
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Kundli & Jyotish · 6 min read
Lagna is the zodiac sign rising at your birth time and place. Learn how it sets up the twelve houses, how to find its ruling planet, and why it must be read with the rest of the chart.
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Kundli & Jyotish · 4 min read
A rashi is a 30° slice of the sidereal zodiac, and in Vedic astrology it usually means your Moon sign. Here is what each of the twelve covers and why yours may differ from your Western sign.
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Kundli & Jyotish · 4 min read
Houses are the twelve areas of life a birth chart divides into, counted from your ascendant. Here is what each bhava signifies, which are considered strong, and why house systems disagree.
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Kundli & Jyotish · 5 min read
Vimshottari dasha divides life into planetary periods totalling 120 years, starting from your birth nakshatra. Here is how the sequence is built, what mahadasha and antardasha mean, and how to read one honestly.
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Kundli & Jyotish · 5 min read
A yoga is a named planetary combination. Raj yogas concern status and dhana yogas wealth. Here is how they are formed, why almost everyone has some, and how to read them without overclaiming.
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Kundli & Jyotish · 5 min read
The navamsa divides each sign into nine parts, giving a second chart read alongside the birth chart. Here is how D9 is calculated, what vargottama means, and why it dominates marriage analysis.
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Kundli & Jyotish · 5 min read
Each graha has a traditional gemstone. Here is the full table, how a proper prescription is supposed to work, why some stones are trialled first, and the specific warning signs of a sales pitch.
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Kundli & Jyotish · 5 min read
Mantras are the cheapest remedy in Jyotish and the most defensible. Here are the planetary mantras, how counts and malas work, what research on repetition actually shows, and where the claims overreach.
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Kundli & Jyotish · 4 min read
Tara Bala counts from your birth nakshatra to today's to give one of nine favourability categories. Here is how it is calculated, what each tara means, and why it is what makes a muhurta personal.
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Kundli & Jyotish · 4 min read
In Jyotish every graha aspects the 7th house from itself, and Mars, Jupiter and Saturn have extra aspects. Here is the full table and why Vedic aspects differ from Western ones.
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Kundli & Jyotish · 5 min read
A guide to every free tool on the site: what each one needs from you, what it returns, and which to start with depending on whether you know your birth time.
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Kundli & Jyotish · 7 min read
Learn how Sudarshana Chakra reads one house from Lagna, Moon and Sun, how birthday-year progression creates a ten-year forecast, and how to interpret the result without fatalism.
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