Divisional Charts Calculator — Your 16 Varga Charts, D1 to D60

How a varga chart is made

Take the Navamsa, since it is the one every astrologer uses. A sign is 30°, and nine parts of 3°20′ divide it. A planet at 20° of Libra falls in the seventh part. Where the counting starts is fixed by the sign's quality: from the sign itself for a movable sign, from the ninth from it for a fixed sign, from the fifth for a dual sign. Libra is movable, so the seventh part counted from Libra is Aries — and Aries is where that planet stands in the D9.

Every other varga is the same arithmetic with a different divisor and its own counting rule: two parts for the Hora, three for the Drekkana, ten for the Dashamsa, sixty for the Shashtiamsa. Which is also why birth-time accuracy matters differently at each level — a D2 placement barely moves in an hour, while a D60 placement can change in two minutes.

Movable sign

Count from the sign itself

Fixed sign

Count from the 9th from it

Dual sign

Count from the 5th from it

Vargottama, and the four things to check in any varga

Open a divisional chart and the temptation is to read it like a second birth chart. It is not one. A varga answers a single question, and four things answer it.

1. The varga lagna and its lordWhere it sits and how strong it is. A weak D10 lagna lord makes a career of starts and stalls, whatever the birth chart's 10th house promises.
2. The house that owns the subjectThe 10th in the Dashamsa, the 7th in the Navamsa, the 5th in the Saptamsa — with its lord and its occupants.
3. The karakaThe Sun and Saturn for career, Venus for marriage, Jupiter for children. A karaka weak in its own varga undercuts an otherwise good chart.
4. Vargottama planetsA planet in the same sign in D1 and in the varga. The texts rate it close to exaltation — it delivers what it promises, and its dasha keeps its word. Your calculator marks these with a V.

Vimshopaka bala — strength that comes from the divisions

There is a second use for the vargas, older than the department-by-department reading: judging a planet's strength. Vimshopaka bala scores each planet on how it stands across a set of divisions — six, seven, ten or all sixteen, depending on the scheme — and totals it out of twenty. A planet dignified in most of its vargas is strong whatever its birth-chart placement looks like; one exalted in D1 and debilitated everywhere else is not.

This is why two charts with the same planet in the same house behave differently. The birth chart shows the placement; the vargas show whether the planet has the substance to deliver it.

How accurate are online divisional charts?

The divisions are arithmetic, so a varga chart is exactly as accurate as the longitude behind it. Here those longitudes come from the Swiss Ephemeris with the Lahiri ayanamsa, computed for the minute and place you enter, and every one of the sixteen charts is produced from the same set of positions — which is why the vargottama marks can be trusted.

Two sites will sometimes show different varga charts for the same birth data. The reason is almost always one of three: a different ayanamsa, a different counting rule for the odd vargas, or a rounded planetary longitude. Ours states its ayanamsa on every chart, and you can change it under Advanced settings if your tradition uses another.