Prashna Kundli (Horary Chart) Calculator

Prashna Kundli Now for New Delhi

This is the chart of this minute at New Delhi, cast when the page was loaded, with the question read as being about yourself. Choose your own place and the subject of your question above, and the chart is cast again for the moment you ask.

Prashna lagna at 09:00 on 8 October 2026 in New Delhi, Delhi, India: Libra 24°55′, with the Moon in Leo in the 11th house. The classical Tajika reading leans favourable, with conditions.

Question: About myself, in general — the 1st house. Querent's significators: Venus, Moon, Mercury. Significators of the question: Venus, Mercury.

Prashna chart positions

Classical prashna reading points

1. Rising sign. The Prashna lagna is Libra at 24°55′, a movable (chara) sign; tradition reads a movable lagna as a matter in motion — it tends to change or move quickly.
2. Lagna lord. Venus rules the lagna and sits in the 1st house, an angle (kendra), the strongest placement for the querent's significator.
3. Moon. The Moon is waning, in Leo 19°44′ (Purva Phalguni, pada 2) in the 11th house. The Moon is outside the 6th, 8th and 12th, which the classical texts read as supportive.
4. Angles. Benefics in the angles: Jupiter, Venus, Mercury. No malefic occupies the 1st or 7th house.
5. House of the question. The question belongs to the 1st house (Libra); its lord Venus is in the 1st house, in an angle, which tradition reads as the matter having strength.
6. Tajika contact. Venus rules both the lagna and the 1st house — the matter rests in the querent's own hands rather than on another party. The Moon is separating from Venus — support is withdrawing rather than gathering.
7. KP lagna sub-lord. In the Krishnamurti system the lagna degree falls in the sign of Venus, the star of Jupiter and the sub of Mercury; KP practitioners read the sub-lord's significations against the house of the question.

Every point above is a traditional reading of the chart of this moment, not a prediction. The same question asked a few minutes later rises in a different degree, and the tradition itself asks that a question be put once, sincerely, and not re-cast until the answer changes.

What a Prashna Kundli Is

A Prashna kundli — a horary chart — is cast for the moment a question is asked and the place it is asked from, not for anyone's birth. Prashna is one of the three branches of Jyotisha alongside the birth chart and muhurta, and it is how astrologers have answered a question from someone whose birth time is unknown. The chart is built exactly like a birth chart: the rising sign of the moment becomes the lagna and every house is counted from it.

Because it needs no birth data, a Prashna kundli is what to use when the birth time is lost or doubtful, and for a question about a single matter — a job offer, a proposal, a journey — rather than about the shape of a life.

How to Ask a Prashna Question

• Frame one question. A Prashna answers one matter. "Will this job offer come through?" is a question; "what does my career hold?" is a birth-chart reading.
• Ask it once. The tradition holds that the first sincere asking is the one the chart answers. Re-casting until a chart pleases is not a Prashna.
• Use your own place. The lagna turns over about every two hours and differs across India at the same minute, so choose where you are when you ask.
• Pick the nearest subject. The subject decides the house the question belongs to, and with it the planet that stands for the matter.

Prashna Kundli Reading Points

Classical prashna texts — Prashna Marga, Tajika Neelakanthi and the Prashna chapters of the Hora works — read a small set of points before anything else. The result above walks through the ones this site computes:

• The rising sign's nature. Movable, fixed or dual, read as a matter in motion, holding its course, or half of each.
• The lagna lord. The querent's own significator; an angle or trine strengthens it, the 6th, 8th or 12th hinders it.
• The Moon. The mind of the question and the carrier of events; the 6th, 8th and 12th are read as unfavourable.
• The angles. Benefics in the kendras support the matter; malefics in the 1st or 7th obstruct it.
• The house of the question and its lord. Where the planet that stands for the matter sits, and how strongly.
• The Tajika contact. Whether the lagna lord and the question's lord are forming an aspect (Ithasala), have just left one (Isarapha), or are joined through a faster third planet (Nakta).

House of the Question in Prashna

Horary uses the ordinary meanings of the twelve houses; it only asks which one the question is about. The lord of that house becomes the significator of the matter, and its contact with the lagna lord is the heart of the reading.

Tajika Ithasala and Isarapha in Prashna

Tajika horary reads an aspect by its direction of travel. Ithasala — the faster planet still approaching an exact aspect with the slower, within their combined orb (deeptamsha) — is read as the matter coming to pass; a friendly aspect smoothly, a hostile one with friction. Isarapha — the aspect already perfected and separating — is read as the moment for the matter having gone by. When the two significators are not in contact at all, a faster planet separating from one and applying to the other can carry the matter between them (Nakta), and the Moon applying to the lagna lord (Kambula) strengthens whatever else is read.

Limits of the Prashna Kundli

A Prashna kundli is a traditional method, not a forecast, and this page does not claim that the chart of a moment decides anything in the world. It prints the classical reading points so that you can see how the tradition reads the moment; a question about health, money or law needs a qualified professional, whatever a chart says. Houses here are whole-sign from the lagna and positions use the Lahiri ayanamsa; Krishnamurti Paddhati horary, which uses Placidus cusps and a number from 1 to 249 instead of the clock, can read the same question differently.

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