Free Kundli — Your Janam Kundli by Date of Birth, Time and Place

Lagna, rashi and nakshatra — the three names of your kundli

People ask "what is my sign" and get three different answers, because Jyotish has three. Your lagna (ascendant) is the sign rising in the east at birth. It changes every two hours, which is why the birth time matters more than anything else on this page; it is the frame from which the other eleven houses are counted, and the strongest single statement about your body, your temperament and your life's direction. Your rashi is the sign the Moon occupies — the sign a pandit means when he asks for your rashi, the sign your name letter comes from, the sign your daily and monthly horoscope is read from. Your janma nakshatra is the Moon's star, one of twenty-seven, and it decides two large things: the Vimshottari dasha that begins at your birth, and the gana, nadi and yoni that kundli matching scores.

Your kundli gives all three, with degrees. An astrologer reads the lagna kundli first, the chandra kundli — the Moon taken as the first house — second, and trusts a result only when both agree.

Lagna

Rising sign · the body, the frame

Rashi

Moon sign · the mind, the name letter

Nakshatra

Moon's star · the dasha, the matching

The nine grahas — planetary positions in your kundli

The planets table is where an astrologer spends most of the time, and five columns carry the reading.

• Sign and degree, to the minute. A planet in the first or last degree of a sign is at a sandhi, a junction, and behaves unsteadily.
• Nakshatra and pada — the star inside the sign, and its lord. In Krishnamurti Paddhati the nakshatra lord outranks the sign; in Parashari it colours what the planet gives.
• House — the department of life the planet acts on.
• Dignity — exalted, own sign, friend, neutral, enemy or debilitated. Strength before anything else: an exalted planet in a bad house still gives; a debilitated planet in a good house gives little.
• Retrograde and combust — a retrograde planet works inwardly and delivers late; a combust one, burned by the Sun's proximity, cannot give its full result. The R against Rahu and Ketu is normal: the nodes are always retrograde.

Navamsa (D9) and the divisional charts — why one chart is never enough

Parashara divided the birth chart sixteen ways, and each division is a chart of its own for one area of life. The Navamsa is the division no reading can do without. Each sign is cut into nine parts of 3°20′, and the chart is redrawn from those parts. It is the chart of marriage — and, more importantly, of a planet's real strength. A planet well placed in the birth chart but debilitated in the Navamsa does not deliver what it promised. A planet in the same sign in both charts is vargottama, and it is stronger than its birth-chart placement alone would suggest. Your Navamsa is drawn beside your birth chart; the other vargas — Dashamsa for career, Saptamsa for children, and the rest — are one click away in your kundli.

Yogas and doshas in your kundli — Manglik, Kaal Sarp, Sade Sati

A yoga is a combination of planets that produces a result together: the Raja yogas that raise a person, the Dhana yogas that bring wealth, the Pancha Mahapurusha yogas that give one planet its full expression. A dosha is a combination that works against: Mangal dosha from Mars in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th or 12th, Kaal Sarp dosha from every planet hemmed between Rahu and Ketu, Sade Sati from Saturn's seven-and-a-half-year transit over the natal Moon. Your kundli counts the yogas present by category and states the Manglik position plainly — present or not, and how strongly.

A word from practice. Manglik dosha is present in roughly a third of all charts and cancelled or softened in most of them, and Kaal Sarp yoga is claimed for far more charts than it actually afflicts. A dosha on the list is a reason to read further, not a verdict. The Mangal dosha and marriage prediction pages read the Manglik position properly, against the whole chart.

How accurate is an online kundli? Birth time, ayanamsa and the rest

As accurate as the birth time, and no more. The planetary positions come from the Swiss Ephemeris — the same planetary data astronomers use — for the exact minute and place you enter, and they match what an astrologer casts by hand to the arc-minute. The one thing that depends on you is the time. The lagna moves one degree every four minutes; an hour's error can carry it into the next sign and shift every house with it. Use the hospital record, not the family's memory, and when in doubt have the birth time rectified before you act on a reading.

Two settings you may be asked about. This kundli uses the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa by default — the Indian government standard — with the mean node for Rahu and Ketu; more than forty ayanamsas are supported, including Raman, Krishnamurti and Fagan-Bradley, under Advanced settings, because some traditions and all of KP astrology use others. And a kundli is a chart, not a prediction: what it says about your marriage, career or the year ahead is on the prediction pages of this site, and in a consultation.