KP Horary Calculator: Prashna From 1 to 249

KP Horary Answers One Question Without a Birth Chart

Some questions cannot wait for a full reading, and some people do not know their birth time at all. KP horary was built for both. You hold one question in mind, pick a number between 1 and 249, and the chart is cast for the moment and the place you ask. The number fixes the ascendant; everything else follows the same rules as a KP birth chart. The cusp your question belongs to is found, its sub lord is read, and the ruling planets of the moment confirm the answer. This calculator draws the whole prashna chart for you — cusps, sub lords, planets and ruling planets — right on this page.

Prashna

A Chart That Belongs to the Question, Not to You

Horary is the branch of KP that needs no birth details at all. The chart is cast for the moment a question is asked, and the ascendant comes from a number you pick between 1 and 249 — one for each of the divisions KP cuts the zodiac into. From there the reading proceeds exactly as it would in a birth chart: find the cusp your question belongs to, look at its sub lord, and see which houses that planet signifies.

It suits questions that are live rather than lifelong. Will the deal close. Will the transfer come through. Will the missing document turn up. Will she call back. A birth chart answers what a life holds; a horary chart answers what today holds.

How to Ask

Four Rules That Decide Whether the Answer Is Readable

One Question, Clearly Framed"Will I get this job?" reads cleanly. "What about my career?" has no cusp to sit on and no answer to give.
Pick the Number YourselfHold the question in mind and say the first number between 1 and 249 that comes. Do not work it out, and do not ask someone else to pick it.
Ask OnceThe same question asked again out of doubt gives a chart for the doubt, not for the matter. Wait for the event, or ask again only when the situation itself has changed.
Ask Where You AreThe cusps depend on the place. Use the city you are actually sitting in when the question comes to you.

Which House Answers

The Cusp Your Question Belongs To

Every question sits on one house, and the sub lord of that cusp gives the verdict. If it signifies the houses that build the matter, the answer is yes and the dasha says when; if it signifies the houses that end or deny it, the answer is no, whatever else the chart looks like.

Which house cusp answers which horary question in KP
Your Question	Cusp	Houses That Build It
Marriage	7th	2, 7, 11
A Job or a Posting	10th	2, 6, 10, 11
Business of Your Own	10th	2, 7, 10, 11
A House or Land	4th	4, 11, 12
A Child	5th	2, 5, 11
Money or a Loan	11th	2, 6, 11
A Court Case	6th	6, 11
Going Abroad	12th	3, 9, 12
Recovery From Illness	1st	1, 5, 11

Confirmation

Why Ruling Planets Matter More in Horary Than Anywhere Else

The ruling planets of the moment — the day lord, and the sign and star lords of the Moon and of the ascendant — are printed with your chart. In a birth reading they confirm; in horary they carry much of the weight. When the planets ruling the moment repeat the significators of the matter, Krishnamurti treated the indication as settled, and looked for the event in a period belonging to those same planets.

The Moon deserves its own look. It moves fastest, it stands for the mind that framed the question, and its sub lord often tells you at a glance whether the querent is being carried towards the matter or away from it.

About the Astrologer

Who Wrote This Page

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

He answers single questions by KP horary in his own consultations, reading the one cusp the question belongs to and checking it against the ruling planets of the moment.

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Questions

KP Horary — Common Questions

Horary, or prashna, answers a single question without a birth chart. You hold the question in mind and pick a number between 1 and 249; that number supplies the ascendant, and the chart is cast for the moment you ask, at the place you ask from. The cusp your question belongs to is then read exactly as it would be in a birth chart.

KP divides each of the 27 nakshatras into nine unequal subs, sized by the years each planet holds in the Vimshottari cycle. That gives 249 divisions across the zodiac, and each number stands for one of them. The number you pick fixes the ascendant of the question chart.

Ask the question sincerely, hold it in mind for a moment, and say the first number that comes. Do not calculate it, and do not ask the same question again hoping for a better chart — in KP a question asked twice out of doubt gives an unreadable answer.

No. The horary chart belongs to the question, not to the person. Only the number, the moment and the place of asking are used. Your birth chart is needed for a KP birth reading, which is a different page.

Marriage sits on the 7th, a job on the 10th and 6th, a house on the 4th, a child on the 5th, money on the 2nd and 11th, a court case on the 6th, and a move abroad on the 12th and 9th. The sub lord of that cusp decides whether the matter is promised.

Yes. The chart, the twelve cusps with their star, sub and sub-sub lords, all nine planets in the same detail and the ruling planets of the moment are free. Nothing is held back behind a payment.