Ashtakvarga Calculator — Sarvashtakavarga and Bhinnashtakavarga Points by Date of Birth

Your ashtakvarga, read against the years ahead

The calculator gives you the numbers. The report is what an astrologer makes of them: which houses your chart actually supports, where Saturn and Jupiter will help you in the next ten years and where they will not, and which stretch of that decade is worth acting in — written out with the remedies that fit, as a PDF you keep.

Lagna, rashi and nakshatra — what they make of you

All 12 houses and the planets in them, read in full

Vimshottari dasha — your periods, past and coming

Yogas and doshas — Manglik, Kaal Sarp, Sade Sati

Career, marriage, children, health and money

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The one system that turns a chart into numbers

By Pramod Sharma Jyotish Acharya · Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi · 26 years in practice · Updated 1 Sep 2026

Almost everything else in Jyotish is judgement. Ashtakvarga is counting. Eight witnesses — the seven grahas and the ascendant — each look at every sign of your chart and either give it a benefic point or withhold one. Add the votes and you have a number for every sign, and therefore for every house of your life.

That is the whole idea, and it is the reason experienced astrologers keep coming back to it. Two charts can look equally good and behave nothing alike; the ashtakvarga usually explains why. A house carrying thirty-two points supports what it signifies with little effort. The same house with twenty-one asks for work, and gives late. Nothing else in the classical system states it that plainly.

Witnesses

7 grahas + lagna

Total points

337 across 12 signs

Average

28 per sign

Bhinnashtakavarga — one graha's own testimony

Start with a single planet. The classical tables say, for each of the eight witnesses, which houses counted from that witness receive a point. Run the tables and Saturn — say — ends up with a number between 0 and 8 in every sign, totalling around 39 across the twelve. That set of twelve numbers is Saturn's bhinnashtakavarga: its own opinion of the zodiac, in your chart.

Read it like this. Five points or more in a sign and Saturn is content there; it will behave when it sits in that sign and when it transits it. Two or fewer and it is not; the same Saturn crossing that sign presses. A planet placed at birth in a sign where it holds few of its own points gives less than its dignity suggests — one of the quiet reasons a promising chart underperforms.

5 – 8 points: The graha is at ease here
4 points: Neutral ground
0 – 2 points: It presses rather than supports

Sarvashtakavarga — the map of a whole life in twelve numbers

Add the seven bhinnashtakavargas sign by sign and you get the sarvashtakavarga. The total is always 337, which means the twelve signs are dividing a fixed quantity of support between them — a house that has more has it because another has less. The average works out to 28.

Counted as houses from your ascendant, those numbers say where life comes easily and where it does not. Thirty or more in the 10th and a career takes hold without being forced. Twenty-one in the 7th and marriage is not doomed — but it will need attention that a chart with thirty-four does not need to give. This is the single most useful page in a consultation when someone asks the flat question: what is my chart actually good at?

Strong

30 points or more

The house supports what it signifies. Transits over it tend to give results; the dasha of its lord delivers.

Average

25 to 29 points

Ordinary ground. Outcomes here follow effort and the running dasha rather than the chart's own momentum.

Testing

Below 25 points

The house asks for work and gives late. Not a verdict — plenty of good lives are built on a weak house — but it tells you where the effort has to go.

Kendra, trikona, upachaya, dusthana — what the groups reveal

Single houses can mislead; the groups rarely do. Take the average of a group rather than its total, so four houses can be compared with three.

Group	Houses	A high average means
Kendra	1, 4, 7, 10	The pillars of the life stand firm — body, home, partnership, career
Trikona	1, 5, 9	Fortune and merit support the person; things tend to work out
Upachaya	3, 6, 10, 11	Growth through effort and competition; a self-made chart
Dusthana	6, 8, 12	Difficulty is survivable — high points here soften what these houses bring

A useful pattern from practice: strong upachaya with an ordinary kendra belongs to someone who builds slowly and ends far ahead of where he began. Strong kendra with a weak upachaya is the opposite — a good start that needs discipline to keep.

How to read a transit against your points

This is the part of ashtakvarga worth learning, because it answers the question people actually have: is Saturn's transit going to hurt me, and for how long?

Find the sign the planet is transitingSaturn stays about two and a half years in a sign, Jupiter about one year.
Read that planet's own points in that signSaturn's bhinnashtakavarga. Five or more and the crossing is constructive; two or fewer and it presses.
Read the sarvashtakavarga of the same signThirty or more and the house has reserves; twenty-one and it does not.
Put the two togetherHigh on both is where things move for you. Low on both is where to hold and consolidate rather than launch.

This is also why two people in the same Sade Sati phase report completely different experiences. Saturn crossing a sign where it holds six of its own points builds; crossing one where it holds one, it grinds.

Shodhana — the reduced points, and why they exist

The raw numbers count some support twice: once through the trines, once through signs that share a lord. Trikona shodhana and ekadhipatya shodhana strip those repetitions out. What survives is a smaller, harder set of numbers — a graha that keeps most of its points after reduction is one whose transits genuinely matter; one reduced to almost nothing works mostly through its dasha instead.

Classically the reduced figures feed into the pinda calculations used for timing and for judging longevity. For a reader they do something simpler: they separate the planets worth watching in transit from the ones that are not.

Prastharaka — where the numbers come from

A number is only as trustworthy as its working. The prastharaka chart shows the votes themselves: for one graha at a time, which of the eight witnesses gave a point in each sign and which did not. Five filled dots in a row means five witnesses agreed that this sign supports that planet.

Most calculators hide this. It is on your ashtakvarga page because it is the only way to check a figure that surprises you — and because a student of Jyotish learns more from the grid than from the total.

What ashtakvarga can tell you, and what it cannot

It can tell you which houses your chart supports, which signs a planet favours, how a transit is likely to behave, and where effort is best spent. Used with the dasha it sharpens timing considerably: a dasha that promises something, running while its house holds thirty points, is a period to act in.

It cannot tell you what will happen. Ashtakvarga is a map of strength, not of events — the dasha brings the event and the ashtakvarga says how much force is behind it. Nor does it override the chart: a house with thirty-four points whose lord is debilitated and afflicted is still a difficult house. Read the numbers as one voice in the room, and the loudest voice on questions of transit.

How accurate is an online ashtakvarga calculator?

The tables are fixed and the arithmetic is exact, so an ashtakvarga is as accurate as the planetary positions behind it. Here those come from the Swiss Ephemeris with the Lahiri ayanamsa for the exact minute and place of birth, and the totals check out — 337 across the twelve signs, every time.

Birth time matters less here than for the lagna or the dasha, because points are counted by sign rather than by degree. The exception is a planet sitting near a sign boundary: move it into the next sign and its column of points moves with it. If your birth time is uncertain by more than an hour, check the planetary positions before trusting the house-by-house reading.

About the author

Written and reviewed by

Pramod Sharma

Jyotish Acharya · Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi

Verified astrologer

25+ Years: In practice since 2001
5th Generation: Family of Vedic astrologers
Systems: Parashari, KP, Jaimini, Lal Kitab

The ashtakvarga on this page is read the way he reads it at the table — the house totals first, then the transiting planet's own points in that sign.

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Questions

Ashtakvarga — the questions people ask

A scoring system. Eight witnesses — the seven grahas and the ascendant — each give a benefic point to certain signs of your chart or withhold it. Adding the votes gives every sign a number, so every house of your life carries a measurable amount of support instead of only a description.

Bhinnashtakavarga is one graha's own points across the twelve signs, from 0 to 8 in each. Sarvashtakavarga is the seven of them added together, sign by sign, and always totals 337. The first says how a particular planet behaves in a sign; the second says how strong a house is overall.

Thirty or more supports what the house signifies; twenty-five to twenty-nine is ordinary ground; below twenty-five the house asks for effort and gives late. The average across the twelve signs is 28, because the total is fixed at 337.

Find the sign the planet is transiting, read that planet's own points in it, then read the sarvashtakavarga of the same sign. High on both is when a transit gives results; low on both is a period to consolidate rather than launch. This is the standard way Saturn and Jupiter transits are judged.

Yes, more than anything else does. Saturn crossing a sign where it holds six of its own points behaves as a builder; crossing one where it holds one point, the same transit grinds. Two people in the same phase with different points have genuinely different experiences.

Two reductions that remove points counted twice — once through the trines, once through signs sharing a lord. The remaining figures are the harder measure used for transit work and for the pinda calculations of classical timing.

The working behind the numbers: for one graha, which of the eight witnesses gave a point in each sign. It is the only way to check a total that looks surprising, and the fastest way for a student to learn how the system is built.

No. It measures strength, not events. The dasha decides what comes and when; the ashtakvarga says how much force is behind it and whether the transit of the moment helps. Read together they are far more precise than either alone.

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