Vedic astrology birth chart online — calculated free, explained in full

What a Jyotish birth chart reading reveals

A birth chart answers the questions people most often bring to an astrologer: where my strength lies, where my money comes from, what my partner will be like, whether I should move away — and when all of this will show itself. The interpretation on this site goes through every planetary placement in plain language, and the articles below explain how Jyotish reads each of these themes.

• Life purpose and vocation — where your strength lies and through what kind of work it unfolds most easily: the dharma trikona, the atmakaraka, the 10th house and the dashamsha.
• Money — how you earn and keep money, where your weak spots in spending lie, whether the chart has dhana yogas and in which years finances come to the fore.
• Relationships and marriage — what kind of partner you are looking for, how a union unfolds, what the navamsha and Venus say, and how to treat manglik dosha.
• Moving and countries — where life is easier for you: at home or far from where you grew up, which point of the compass to look towards and when a move is more likely.
• Times of change — the dasha periods show which planet is running the current stretch of life and when what the chart holds comes out.
• Character and strengths — the Moon's nakshatra, the ascendant and the planetary yogas: the traits you know you have and those that usually go unnoticed.

Birth chart, transits and lunar calendar

The calculation does not end with the birth chart. Next to the interpretation the report has two more tabs: what is happening to your chart right now and what rhythm the Moon is setting. You enter your birth data only once.

How to calculate a Vedic birth chart online for free

1. Enter a name and a date of birth in the form above. Instead of a person you can chart an event: a company registered, a wedding, a move.
2. Give the time of birth as precisely as you can — the ascendant, the house cusps and the navamsha all shift with the minutes. If the time is unknown, start with the rectification questionnaire: it narrows the interval down from the events of your life.
3. Start typing your city and pick it from the prompt — latitude, longitude and the time zone in force on that date are filled in for you.
4. Press «Get report». The chart is calculated on the server in seconds, opens straight away and stays in your account.

Calculating the chart and reading its interpretation costs nothing: there is no subscription and no payment for a report.

What the interpretation covers

• Rasi (D1) — the main chart: planets by zodiac sign and house, the ascendant, the house lords and the aspects.
• Divisional charts — D2 Hora (money), D3 Drekkana (character), D4 Chaturthamsha (property), D7 Saptamsha (children), D9 Navamsha (marriage and essence), D10 Dasamsa (work), D12 Dwadashamsha (parents).
• Nakshatras — the lunar mansion of the birth with its pada and lord; each of the 27 nakshatras has a reading of its own.
• Life periods — Vimshottari dashas with their antardashas, and sign-based periods: you see which planet runs the stretch of life you are in.
• Ashtakavarga — the bindus of each planet and the sarvashtakavarga by sign: a numerical measure of how strong the houses are.
• Planetary yogas — the combinations found in your chart, each linked to its entry among the planetary yogas.

How Vedic astrology differs from Western astrology

Jyotish measures the planets against the fixed stars — the sidereal zodiac. The gap between it and the tropical zodiac of Western astrology is called the ayanamsha, and it now runs to roughly 24 degrees, which is why a Vedic chart usually puts the Sun in the preceding sign. The second difference is the Moon and its nakshatra: the Vimshottari dashas, the life periods that Western astrology has no counterpart for, are counted from it. The third is the divisional charts — marriage, work and property are each checked in a varga of their own rather than in the main chart alone. A Jyotish reading therefore speaks not only of character but of when what the chart holds comes out.