About your Vedic birth chart
Two charts cast for the same birth can disagree, and the reason is almost always the time zone or the ayanamsa. This one is explicit about both: Lahiri ayanamsa, whole-sign houses, and a birthplace stored by zone name so the historical offset for your date is the one used. Matching two charts for marriage uses the same computed positions across the eight kutas of Ashtakoota milan.
- What is a Kundali?
- A kundali — janma patrika, or birth chart — is the sky at the moment and place you were born: where the nine grahas sat against the twelve houses and twenty-seven nakshatras. Vedic astrology reads your life from those positions. This tool computes them exactly, then an astrologer reads them back.
- How is this chart calculated?
- Positions come from the Swiss Ephemeris, the same ephemeris professional astronomers use, with the Lahiri ayanamsa and whole-sign houses — the sidereal conventions Vedic astrology is read by. Your Vimshottari dasha and all sixteen vargas are derived from it. The software never guesses a degree or a date; it computes them.
- Do I need my exact birth time?
- The closer, the better. The ascendant moves a full degree every four minutes, so an hour of uncertainty can shift your lagna into the next sign. If you are unsure, mark the time approximate — the reading then leans on the Moon, which moves far more slowly, instead of the lagna.
- Can I use my Bikram Sambat (BS) date?
- Yes. Enter your date in Bikram Sambat and it is converted to the Gregorian date the ephemeris needs. Your birthplace is stored by its time-zone name, not a fixed offset, and looked up for your actual date — so a zone that has since changed its clocks does not quietly corrupt the chart.
- Is it really free?
- Casting your chart and reading the analysis costs nothing. You sign up for a free account first, which keeps the chart for next time.
Prefer to read first? Today’s rasifal needs no birth details, and the Patro gives you the day’s tithi and timings.