Interactive Kundli: Tap Any House to Read It

Drishti means sight. In Vedic astrology a planet does not act only on the house it sits in; it also looks at other houses, counted from its own, and colours what happens there. That is why a house with no planet in it is not idle: its ruler and the planets looking at it carry its story.

Every planet looks at the seventh house from itself. Three have a special drishti as well: Mars also looks at the fourth and eighth, Jupiter at the fifth and ninth, and Saturn at the third and tenth. This chart gives Rahu and Ketu the fifth, seventh and ninth, as many schools do. Drishti here is counted by whole houses, not degrees, and it runs one way: Saturn looking at your tenth house does not mean the tenth looks back at Saturn.

• Solid gold ray: drishti cast from the house you tapped.
• Violet ray with a star: a special drishti (Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu, Ketu).
• Dashed ray: drishti coming into the house from another one.
• Dotted gold path: the lord chain, from the house to its ruler's house, then on to that planet's ruler, until the chain ends.

The short badge on a ray (7th, 8th) names the drishti; the panel says it in full. The guide to graha drishti explains the rules and where the schools differ.

D1, the rashi chart, is the birth chart itself: the twelve houses from the lagna, with every planet where it was. Drishti, house lords, dashas and yogas are all read from D1. The divisional charts cut each sign into smaller parts and place the planets again, each for one subject:

• D9, navamsa: marriage and partnership, and how well a planet holds up. A planet in the same sign in D1 and D9 is vargottama and counts as stronger.
• D10, dasamsa: career, standing and public work.
• D7, saptamsa: children and what you create.

Pick one above the chart and the planets glide to their houses in it; the panel then shows where each planet sits in that chart and how comfortable it is there. Drishti and lords stay with D1, as the classical texts read them. Each has its own calculator with the full table: navamsa (D9), dasamsa (D10) and saptamsa (D7).

Turn on Sky and a ring appears round the chart with the planets as they stand in the sky on the date below it, today to begin with. Each moving planet sits beside the house of the chart it is passing through, counted from the lagna.

Drag the slider to any date from the birth to 2100, step a month at a time with the arrow keys, or press play to watch the years go by. Tap a moving planet and the house it is crossing opens; that house's panel then adds what is in the sky on the date: the planets passing through it and the ones looking at it.

Under the slider sit the dasha periods running on that date, and Sade Sati or Dhaiya when Saturn is in that phase from the Moon. The dates come from the same engine as the Vimshottari dasha calculator, and Sade Sati has its own page.

Two more switches sit above the chart. SAV heat shades each house by its Sarvashtakavarga points, the supporting points its sign receives from the planets: the more points, the easier the results there tend to come. Strength puts a halo round each planet, sized by its Shad Bala in rupas. Night view darkens the chart area alone, for reading it in a dim room. The Sarvashtakavarga and Shadbala calculators show the numbers behind both.