The sidereal zodiac, your lunar mansion and the count of thirty-six gunas: the Indian tradition reads your chart by other markers, and it dates what it sees.
Your sidereal chart read by the Indian tradition: your Lagna, your birth nakshatra, your yogas and the season of life you are crossing.
Saturn crosses the three signs around your natal Moon: seven and a half years the tradition reads as a demanding maturation. Your exact dates, your three phases, and the levers to steer it.
Jyotish divides life into dated seasons, the dashas. Each month, the colour of your sub-period; at every change of chapter, its announcement. Your full timeline awaits you on sign-up.
Prashna reads the sky of the MOMENT you ask: no birth time is needed. A straight answer, in the manner of the tradition.
Wedding, journey, signature, moving in: the tradition elects favourable moments. Your best dates over the window you choose, with their time slot, computed from your natal Moon.
The Dasamsa (D10) is the divisional chart of work and public action. Crossed with your 10th house, it tells your way of working, your supports and your learning grounds.
The tradition holds karma to be partly supple: that is what founds the upaya. Your levers, in the practitioner's order — discipline and service first, devotion next, objects last and with nothing to buy.
Varshaphal draws your year's chart at the SIDEREAL return of the Sun. Your Muntha, the lord of your year, and what perfects or withdraws before your next birthday.
The tradition draws the first syllable of the name from the exact pada where the Moon stood at birth. Your child's nakshatra, their syllable, and the first chapter of their life. An offering of the tradition, never an obligation.
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Your complete sidereal chart: your Lagna, your birth nakshatra, your yogas and the dasha season you are crossing. All it takes is a date, a time and a place.
Get my Vedic chartJyotish counts degrees from the actual constellations, where Western astrology starts from the seasons. The gap between them, the ayanamsa, is now close to twenty-four degrees: most people therefore change sun sign when moving from one tradition to the other. Two different frames of reference, not a contradiction.
Where the West opens with the Sun, the Indian tradition opens with the Moon and the stellar mansion it occupies. Twenty-seven nakshatras, each with its lord and its temperament: that is the first word of your Vedic portrait.
The Vimshottari dashas divide life into large planetary periods, dated, following a fixed order from your birth. That is the mark of Jyotish: it places things in time rather than merely describing them.
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The sidereal sky, nakshatras and dashas: the Indian tradition in its own terms.