Question 1

What is a Vedic birth chart (Kundli)?

Accepted Answer

A Janam Kundli is basically a snapshot of the sky the moment you took your first breath — where each graha sat, which Nakshatra the Moon occupied, what Lagna was rising. The Rasi chart (D1) maps all nine Vedic planets across 12 bhavas. Not a personality quiz. An actual astronomical diagram that traditional jyotishis have been reading for millennia to gauge everything from career timing to marital compatibility.

Question 2

How is a Vedic birth chart different from a Western birth chart?

Accepted Answer

The biggest difference? About 24 degrees. Vedic jyotish uses the sidereal zodiac — anchored to the fixed stars — while Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac tied to the seasons. So a person who thinks they're a Taurus Sun in Western astrology might actually have the Sun in Mesha (Aries) in Vedic. Vedic charts also use Nakshatras, Dashas, and divisional charts like the Navamsa (D9), which Western charts don't touch.

Question 3

What information do I need for my birth chart?

Accepted Answer

Three things. Date of birth, exact time, place of birth. The time is non-negotiable — your Lagna shifts every two hours or so. Born at 6:15 AM versus 8:30 AM in the same city? Completely different Ascendant, different house lords, different Dasha sequence. If you don't have your birth time, check the hospital records or ask a parent. Even 15 minutes off can flip which bhava a planet sits in.

Question 4

What are the 12 houses in a birth chart?

Accepted Answer

Each bhava governs a different slice of life. First house is you — body, temperament, how people read you when you walk into a room. Second bhava is family wealth and speech. Seventh is marriage and business partnerships. Tenth is career and public reputation. The tricky ones? Sixth (enemies, debt, disease), eighth (sudden events, inheritance, occult), and twelfth (foreign travel, losses, moksha). Where your planets land across these twelve bhavas tells the story.

Question 5

Is this birth chart calculator free and accurate?

Accepted Answer

Completely free. We use NASA JPL DE431 ephemeris data for planetary positions — the same astronomical dataset used by space agencies. You get exact degrees, Nakshatra Padas, retrograde status, and combustion data for all nine Vedic grahas. The positions match what a traditional jyotishi would calculate manually with a panchang, minus the human arithmetic errors.

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