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Janam kundli

When and where were you born? That is all we need.

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Birth details

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Every chart
Lagna, D-charts, dashas and transits combined in every answer
16 charts
D1 to D60, plus three-level dasha
36 guna
Kundli matching for marriage

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Before you begin

What a janam kundli is

A janam kundli is a map of the sky as it stood over the place and the minute you were born. It records where each of the nine grahasOne of the nine: the seven visible bodies plus Rahu and Ketu, the two lunar nodes. A graha is read as a force at work, not as a lump of rock. sat against the twenty-seven nakshatrasThe star the Moon is passing through. There are twenty-seven, and yours decides your naming letter and much of a matching score. at that moment, and which rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. was rising in the east. North India draws it as a diamond of twelve houses counted from that rising rashi, so the first house is you, the seventh is marriage and partnership, and the tenth is work.

The rising rashi changes every two hours, so two people born on the same day still get different kundlis. That is what separates a kundli from a sun-sign horoscope. It is the document a family brings out when a rishta is discussed, when a business is started, and when a year has gone badly and somebody wants to know which period is running. This page builds it from real planetary positions.

Reading it

Where to look first

A kundli puts a great deal on one screen. Four things carry most of the reading, and they are the four worth finding before anything else.

  • 01

    Your lagna

    The rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. that was rising in the east at your birth minute. Every house is counted from it, and it turns a whole rashi every two hours, so the birth time is worth checking with your family rather than rounding it.

  • 02

    Your Moon, and its nakshatra

    When a pandit asks your rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun., this is the one they mean, not the newspaper’s sun sign. The nakshatraThe star the Moon is passing through. There are twenty-seven, and yours decides your naming letter and much of a matching score. the Moon sat in also fixes where your dashaA period ruled by one graha, running for a fixed number of years. Dashas are how a chart is read forward in time instead of as a snapshot. sequence starts.

  • 03

    The house your question lives in

    Marriage is the seventh, work the tenth, money the second and the eleventh. Read which rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. stands there, where its lord has gone, and which grahasOne of the nine: the seven visible bodies plus Rahu and Ketu, the two lunar nodes. A graha is read as a force at work, not as a lump of rock. are sitting in it.

  • 04

    The period you are running now

    A placement says what is possible; the dashaA period ruled by one graha, running for a fixed number of years. Dashas are how a chart is read forward in time instead of as a snapshot. says when it is live. Find the mahadashaThe big period, six to twenty years of a single graha. It sets the weather of that stretch of life, and the smaller periods inside it set the days. and antardashaThe sub-period inside a mahadasha, months to a couple of years long. Most of the datable turns in a life show up at this level. you are in today before you read anything about the year ahead.

What arrives

What you get when you press the button

One page, in eight sections, on screen in a few seconds. It is free, with no sign-up and nothing held back for a paid version.

Overview
Your birth particulars, the panchangThe day's five limbs read together: vara, tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana. Everything an almanac says about a date starts here. running at that minute, and the Avakhada ChakraThe block of birth details a pandit reads first: nakshatra, rashi, gana, nadi, yoni and the rest. The whole reading leans on this summary..
Charts
The rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. chart in the North Indian diamond, and all sixteen divisions from D1 to D60.
Planets
All nine grahasOne of the nine: the seven visible bodies plus Rahu and Ketu, the two lunar nodes. A graha is read as a force at work, not as a lump of rock. with sign, degree, nakshatraThe star the Moon is passing through. There are twenty-seven, and yours decides your naming letter and much of a matching score., house and strength, each one explained in plain words.
Houses
The twelve bhavas one at a time: which rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. stands in each, where its lord sits, and who is sitting in it.
Dasha
VimshottariThe main dasha system, a 120 year cycle shared out among the nine grahas. Which one you are born into depends on your birth nakshatra. to three levels, with the period you are running today named at the top, and Sade SatiThe roughly seven and a half years Saturn takes to cross the sign before your Moon, your Moon sign itself, and the one after. It asks for patience, not panic. as dates.
Yogas & Doshas
The combinations actually present in your chart, with the placements that produced each.
Remedies
A gemstone off your own lords, your nakshatraThe star the Moon is passing through. There are twenty-seven, and yours decides your naming letter and much of a matching score.’s rudrakshaThe seed of a Himalayan tree, worn as a bead. The number of natural faces on it decides which graha it is worn for., and the Lal KitabA twentieth century school from Punjab with its own way of reading a chart and its own remedies, most of them small acts done at home. upaay. We sell none of it.
Full Report
The long reading the report opens on: eight chapters, from who you are to the period you are in now.

Before you ask

Questions people send us

Is the kundli really free?
Yes: every chart, every panel, every page, with no sign-up and nothing waiting to be bought at the end. The one metered thing on this site is asking Panditji, the chat, which has a free allowance and then a price written out on the pricing page. The remedies in the report are things you can do yourself; we do not sell stones.
Do I have to make an account?
No. Fill in the form and the report appears. Signing in does exactly one thing: it carries the kundlis this browser has saved across to your other devices.
I don’t know my exact birth time. Can I still make a kundli?
Yes. Without a time there is no lagnaThe sign rising in the east at your birth, and the first house of the chart. It changes about every two hours, which is why the birth time matters., so the report withholds the ascendant and everything read from the houses instead of building them on a guess. Your moon sign, your nakshatraThe star the Moon is passing through. There are twenty-seven, and yours decides your naming letter and much of a matching score., the panchangThe day's five limbs read together: vara, tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana. Everything an almanac says about a date starts here. of the day and the whole Vimshottari dashaThe main dasha system, a 120 year cycle shared out among the nine grahas. Which one you are born into depends on your birth nakshatra. still come out right, because those follow the Moon, which is slow enough that a date is enough.
Is a lagna kundli different from a janam kundli?
No, they are the same chart. LagnaThe sign rising in the east at your birth, and the first house of the chart. It changes about every two hours, which is why the birth time matters. kundliYour birth chart: the sky drawn as twelve houses, exactly as it stood over your birthplace at the minute you were born., janam kundli, rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. chart and D1 are four names for the one figure drawn from the rashi rising at your birth, and it is the first chart in the report. The genuinely different figures are the chandraThe Moon, and the graha Indian practice leans on most. It holds the mind, the mother and your moods, and your rashi is taken from where it sat. kundli, which counts that same chart from your Moon instead of your lagna, and the divisional charts like navamsaThe ninth-part chart, read next to the main one. It shows how much of a promise actually holds up, and marriage is judged on it. (D9). Both sit beside the rashi chart in the Charts panel rather than replacing it.
Why is my sign different from the one in the newspaper horoscope?
Because a janam kundliYour birth chart: the sky drawn as twelve houses, exactly as it stood over your birthplace at the minute you were born. is sidereal. It measures from the fixed stars using the LahiriThe ayanamsa value the standard Indian panchangs settled on, and the one every chart here is drawn with. Two sites that disagree about a chart usually disagree here first. ayanamsaThe gap between the fixed stars and the tropical zodiac, now close to 24 degrees. We follow the Lahiri value, and that is why two sites can disagree., where a Western horoscope measures from the equinox, and the two have drifted roughly 24° apart, most of a sign. Your Vedic rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. is usually the one before your Western sun sign. The whole calculation is set out on how we calculate every kundli.
Is a computed kundli as good as one a pandit draws by hand?
The positions are the same positions. A pandit works from the astronomy and a panchangThe day's five limbs read together: vara, tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana. Everything an almanac says about a date starts here., and so do we, with the same LahiriThe ayanamsa value the standard Indian panchangs settled on, and the one every chart here is drawn with. Two sites that disagree about a chart usually disagree here first. ayanamsaThe gap between the fixed stars and the tropical zodiac, now close to 24 degrees. We follow the Lahiri value, and that is why two sites can disagree. and the same whole-sign houses. The difference is that the arithmetic here is done to the second rather than interpolated off a printed table, and the historical clock at your birthplace is resolved rather than assumed. What a person adds is the reading: which of several true things about a chart matters most for you right now. That is judgement, and this page does not pretend to replace it. What it gives you is the chart the judgement is made on, with the working shown.
Which ayanamsa and house system do you use?
LahiriThe ayanamsa value the standard Indian panchangs settled on, and the one every chart here is drawn with. Two sites that disagree about a chart usually disagree here first. (Chitrapaksha) and whole-sign houses, the pair every Indian panchangThe day's five limbs read together: vara, tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana. Everything an almanac says about a date starts here. and almost every Indian astrologer works with, so a chart from here can be laid beside a printed one and checked line by line.
My kundli shows a dosha. Is that bad?
Usually less bad than it sounds, and always worth reading the placement rather than the label. The report names only the doshas actually present and shows the grahasOne of the nine: the seven visible bodies plus Rahu and Ketu, the two lunar nodes. A graha is read as a force at work, not as a lump of rock. that produced each one, along with the standard cancellations, which are commoner than the word suggests. There is a page each on Manglik dosha, Bhakoot dosha and Nadi dosha. We will never tell you a dosha can be bought off.
What happens to my birth details?
Your name never enters the address bar and never leaves this device. The chart page’s URL does carry the date, time and coordinates, which is what makes a kundliYour birth chart: the sky drawn as twelve houses, exactly as it stood over your birthplace at the minute you were born. shareable, so treat that link the way you would treat the details themselves. The list of charts you have made is kept in this browser until you sign in and ask for it to be moved. The full position is on the privacy page.
I was born outside India. Does this work?
Yes. The place search is worldwide, and the historical offset is resolved for whichever place you pick rather than assumed to be Indian Standard Time.
Can I read my kundli in Hindi?
Yes, जन्म कुंडली makes the same chart and the same full report in Hindi.

If you would rather check the arithmetic before you trust the reading, our methodology sets out every step of it: which ayanamsaThe gap between the fixed stars and the tropical zodiac, now close to 24 degrees. We follow the Lahiri value, and that is why two sites can disagree., which house system, and which clock was running at your birthplace on your birth date. If a rishta is what brought you here, kundli matching works out all 36 gunas from two sets of birth details, free and with nothing saved.

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