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Daily horoscope

Aaj ka rashifal, read from today’s sky

The Moon is in Kanya today, and Shukla pakshaThe bright fortnight, new Moon to full, the Moon larger every night. Most beginnings, from opening a shop to a wedding, are put in this half. DwitiyaThe second tithi. It is one of the tithis a wedding may be fixed on, and Bhai Dooj falls on the Dwitiya just after Diwali. tithiThe lunar day. It runs from one step of the Moon's phase to the next, so it rarely begins at sunrise. Fasts and festivals are fixed by it. is running.

· positions read at 5:56 am IST

The twelve rashis

Pick your rashi

Tap your rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. for today’s full reading.

Moon sign, not sun sign

Your rashi is not your birthday sign

A Vedic rashifal is read from your moon sign, the rashi the Moon stood in at the moment you were born. The sign you know from a birthday chart is the Western sun sign, and it is worked out on a different zodiac, so for most people the two are different signs entirely. One date settles which of the two you are, and nothing here is saved.

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Before you begin

What a rashifal is

A rashifal is a reading of where 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. stand today counted from your janma rashiThe sign the Moon stood in at your birth. In Indian practice this is the rashi people mean when they ask what yours is, and most of a match is counted from it., the rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. the Moon occupied at your birth. Not from where they stand in the sky at large, which is the same for everybody, but from your own sign, which is what makes one rashi’s day different from another’s.

The Moon crosses all twelve rashisA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. in about twenty-seven days, so it is the Moon that changes a reading from one day to the next. ShaniSaturn. Work, delay, discipline and old age. Nothing it gives arrives early, and very little of what it gives is ever taken back. and GuruJupiter. Wisdom, teachers, wealth and children, and the one graha whose glance on a house is read as help arriving rather than pressure. move slowly enough that their positions shape a year rather than a day, which is why 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. and the Guru transit are named on each sign’s own page and not here.

Reading it

Where to look first

A rashi page puts a good deal on one screen. These four carry most of the reading.

  • 01

    Where the Moon is from your rashi

    Counted from your own sign, not from the sky at large. Six of the twelve positions are the ones the classical gocharWhere the grahas are in the sky right now, read against your birth chart. Transits are what make one year feel unlike the last. table calls favourable.

  • 02

    Whether today is Chandrashtama

    The Moon in the 8th from your rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun.. Read as a day for routine work and rest rather than for starting something, which is not the same as a bad day.

  • 03

    Where Shani and Guru stand

    The Moon changes a reading daily; these two shape a year. 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. is named as dates rather than as a warning.

  • 04

    Whether you are on the right sign

    Every sign page repeats the check, because the rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. to read is the one the Moon was in when you were born, not the one your birthday gives you.

What arrives

What every rashi page carries

Press any of the twelve and today is worked out from that sign. Free, with no sign-up and nothing held back.

Today’s Moon
Which house it stands in counted from that rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun., what the classical gocharWhere the grahas are in the sky right now, read against your birth chart. Transits are what make one year feel unlike the last. table calls the position, and the tithiThe lunar day. It runs from one step of the Moon's phase to the next, so it rarely begins at sunrise. Fasts and festivals are fixed by it. running while you read it.
Chandrashtama
Named on the day the Moon reaches the 8th from your rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun., with what the tradition advises for it rather than a warning about it.
Shani
Where it stands from your rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun., and whether 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. is running. Given as which phase and which dates, not as a verdict.
Guru
Which house it occupies from your rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun., and whether that is one of the positions the gocharWhere the grahas are in the sky right now, read against your birth chart. Transits are what make one year feel unlike the last. table singles out as supportive.
The rashi itself
Its lord, its element, its symbol, and which of the other eleven share them. This is what makes MeshaThe first rashi, Aries. Ruled by Mangal and a fire sign: it starts things, moves first, and would rather act than plan. a particular rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. rather than a name.
Rashi with rashi
How it sits with each of the other eleven, read on the two kootasOne of the eight tests a horoscope match is scored on. Each carries its own weight, and the eight add up to thirty six points. that two rashisA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. settle without a birth time: BhakootHousehold life and prosperity together, taken from the distance between the two Moon signs. Seven points of the thirty six, and some pairs score zero. and Graha MaitriFriendship between the two Moon sign lords, meaning mental and emotional understanding. Five points of the thirty six..
Your moon sign
The check that the page you opened is the rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. you were born under, with a date field that settles it in one entry.
Method
Which positions were read, under 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., and the minute they were last read.

Before you ask

Questions people send us

Is my rashi the same as my star sign?
Usually not. A rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. is your moon sign, the rashi the Moon stood in at the moment you were born. A star sign is the Western sun sign your birthday gives you, worked out on a different zodiac. For most people the two land on different signs.
Why are your dates three weeks later than the newspaper’s?
The newspaper prints the tropical zodiac and this page reads the sidereal one, which is measured against where the constellations actually are. The two have drifted about twenty-three degrees apart, and three weeks is what that drift comes to in days.
Why does my rashifal differ from another site’s?
Two reasons worth knowing. Most daily horoscopes are written weeks ahead by somebody who did not look at the sky, and this one is computed when the page refreshes. Where a site does compute, it may use a different 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 shifts every position by a fixed amount and can move a reading into the next rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun..
Is Chandrashtama a bad day?
No. It is the day the Moon reaches the 8th house from your rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun., and the classical reading is that it suits routine work and rest rather than starting something new. It comes round for every rashi about once a month.
Do I need my birth time to know my rashi?
Usually not. The Moon spends about two and a quarter days in each rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun., so your birth date settles it for most people. It only matters if you were born on the day the Moon changed rashi, and a full kundliYour birth chart: the sky drawn as twelve houses, exactly as it stood over your birthplace at the minute you were born. answers that.
How often does this page change?
The positions are read fresh and held for at most an hour, so the reading follows the Moon through the day rather than being fixed once at midnight.

Every position on these pages is computed by our own calculation engine, sidereal with 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., at the time the page was last read, and where there is nothing computed to say the page says nothing. If you would rather check the arithmetic before you trust the reading, our methodology sets out every step of it. If you want the whole chart rather than today, the janam kundli is built from the same engine, with no sign-up.

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