Lal Kitab Varshphal: Your Year From Birthday to Birthday, Month by Month

How the Lal Kitab Varshphal Table Works

The Lal Kitab gives a table with one row for every year of life. Each row says, for that year, where each house of your birth chart moves: the planets of your first house go here, those of your second house go there, and so on for all twelve. Apply the row for the year you are in, and your Lal Kitab teva becomes this year's chart.

Two things follow. The varshphal depends only on your teva and your age, not on where the planets are in the sky this year. And because whole houses move, planets that share a house at birth always travel together — your birth chart's groupings are carried into every year.

The House That Leads Your Lal Kitab Year

Every Lal Kitab year has a house that comes to the front — the part of life the year is mostly about. In one year it is money and family, in another career and standing, in another marriage. The calculator names that house in its verdict for the year and reads the year around it.

It is often the most useful single line in the reading. Knowing that a year leans on career rather than marriage tells you where to put your effort, and where not to force things.

Your Lal Kitab Year Month by Month

The Lal Kitab year is divided into months counted from your birthday, each with its own emphasis. The calculator lists every month of your running year with its dates and what it brings, so a promising month and a month to go carefully are easy to see in advance.

For the longer view — the 35-year cycle of planetary periods and the house active at your age — see the Lal Kitab dasha.

A Worked Example: My Own Lal Kitab Varshphal

Here is how I read the varshphal of my own Lal Kitab teva. Every placement is the real one.

1. The Birth GroupingsThe Sun, Moon, Mercury and Venus share the second house of my teva; Jupiter and Saturn share the third; Mars is alone in the fourth, Ketu in the fifth and Rahu in the eleventh.
2. They Move TogetherBecause the table moves whole houses, those four second-house planets travel together into the same house every single year. The crowding of my birth chart is carried into every annual chart.
3. What I Watch Each YearThe house that group lands in tends to lead the year, simply because it carries four planets. Whether it lands among friends or enemies decides whether that year is smooth or eventful.
4. Mars on Its OwnMars, debilitated at birth, travels alone. The years in which it moves to a better house are the years I expect it to give its best, and the years it moves to a hard house are when its remedy matters most.

This is how I would ask anyone to read their own varshphal: find where the birth groups go this year, and the year usually explains itself. The calculator does the moving and shows the result.