Learn Vedic Astrology: Kundli, Dasha and More

Plain-language explainers for lagna, dasha, ashtakoot, nakshatra, panchang, muhurta and every term your kundli uses.

Eight contributors cast fixed bindus into each planet's chart; adding all seven together gives the Sarvashtakavarga most readings actually use.

Eight factors, 36 points total, and two doshas checked separately from the overall score.

The 120 year cycle of nine planetary periods, and how your own starting balance is fixed by the Moon's exact position at birth.

The 12 houses, the ascendant, planets and signs, explained for someone reading a kundli for the first time.

Eight planets ranked by degree assign eight roles from Atmakaraka to Darakaraka; the Atmakaraka's Navamsa sign becomes the Karakamsa.

The history and classical logic behind Kaal Sarp dosha, and why the real test is degree by degree, not just by sign.

KP pins a planet or cusp down to one of nine sub-lord portions inside its nakshatra, the factor KP treats as most decisive for a specific question.

The cultural weight behind Manglik matching, and a calmer way to think about Mars placement in a chart.

Three stacked layers, event preferences, universal exclusions and personal tarabala, decide what a truly good muhurta date looks like.

27 equal divisions of the sky, each with a ruling planet, used to place the Moon precisely at birth.

The five classical limbs behind every daily panchang, and the two auspicious and inauspicious windows built the same way.

Why Saturn's slow, roughly 29.5 year orbit is the reason this transit lasts so long and comes so rarely.

Six classical limbs, measured in virupas, combine into one strength ratio per planet, and Purohit computes all six for every planet in every kundli.

The rising sign at birth, which becomes house 1 and anchors every other house in the chart.

A 9-fold subdivision of every sign, remapping the birth chart to reveal deeper strength and marriage indications.