Your janam kundli, computed sidereally.
The same birth moment, read in the sidereal zodiac with the Lahiri ayanamsa. That is the standard across Vedic astrology. You get the nakshatra and pada for every body.
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This kundli uses whole sign houses and the Lahiri ayanamsa. Both are the Vedic standard.
What does the ayanamsa do?
The sidereal zodiac is fixed to the stars; the tropical one is fixed to the equinox. The equinox drifts backwards through the constellations at about 50 arcseconds a year, so the two have pulled apart. The gap between them is the ayanamsa, and it currently sits near 24°.
We subtract it using the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) definition, the Government of India standard. Every chart page shows the exact figure applied for your date, so nothing is hidden. That single subtraction is why a Western Sun in early Taurus becomes a Vedic Sun in late Aries.
What are nakshatras and padas?
The zodiac is also divided into 27 lunar mansions, each exactly 13°20′, and each split into four padas. Your Moon's nakshatra anchors Vimshottari dasha timing and Ashtakoota matching. So in Vedic practice it matters more than the Sun sign does.
The 27 nakshatras, in order
- 01Ashwini
- 02Bharani
- 03Krittika
- 04Rohini
- 05Mrigashira
- 06Ardra
- 07Punarvasu
- 08Pushya
- 09Ashlesha
- 10Magha
- 11Purva Phalguni
- 12Uttara Phalguni
- 13Hasta
- 14Chitra
- 15Swati
- 16Vishakha
- 17Anuradha
- 18Jyeshtha
- 19Mula
- 20Purva Ashadha
- 21Uttara Ashadha
- 22Shravana
- 23Dhanishta
- 24Shatabhisha
- 25Purva Bhadrapada
- 26Uttara Bhadrapada
- 27Revati
The twelve rashis
Rashi is the Sanskrit name for a sign. Charts here print both names, so the same placement reads whichever way you are used to.
| # | Rashi (Sanskrit) | Western Sign | Ruling Planet |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Mesha | Aries | Mangal (Mars) |
| 02 | Vrishabha | Taurus | Shukra (Venus) |
| 03 | Mithuna | Gemini | Budh (Mercury) |
| 04 | Karka | Cancer | Chandra (Moon) |
| 05 | Simha | Leo | Surya (Sun) |
| 06 | Kanya | Virgo | Budh (Mercury) |
| 07 | Tula | Libra | Shukra (Venus) |
| 08 | Vrishchika | Scorpio | Mangal (Mars) |
| 09 | Dhanu | Sagittarius | Guru (Jupiter) |
| 10 | Makara | Capricorn | Shani (Saturn) |
| 11 | Kumbha | Aquarius | Shani (Saturn) |
| 12 | Meena | Pisces | Guru (Jupiter) |
Whole sign houses
Vedic practice puts the whole sign containing the Ascendant as the first house. The next sign is the second, and so on. No unequal cusps. That is the default here. You can switch to equal or Porphyry to compare, though it is unusual for a kundli.
If you want to read further
Books, because that is the only thing we are willing to earn from here. We do not link gemstones, yantras or pujas. Those are sold against the fear a page like this one can create, and not doing that is a promise made on the about page.
- Light on Life: An Introduction to the Astrology of IndiaHart de Fouw and Robert SvobodaThe usual first recommendation for a serious reader in English. Careful about what the tradition claims and what it does not.
- Hindu Predictive AstrologyB. V. RamanThe standard reference for gochar and the classical rules. We checked our own transit tables against its Gocharaphala chapter.
- Brihat Parashara Hora Shastratranslated by R. SanthanamThe foundational text almost everything Vedic descends from. Dense, and worth having if you want to check a rule at source.
At a glance
- Ephemeris
- VSOP87 and Brown’s lunar theory
- Ayanamsa
- Lahiri, the Indian government standard
- Zodiac
- Sidereal (nirayana)
- Houses
- Whole sign, with equal and Porphyry to compare
- Accuracy
- Within 10 arcseconds of NASA JPL Horizons
- Bodies
- Nine grahas, with Rahu and Ketu
- Sign-up
- None
- What we store
- Nothing. Your result lives in the URL
- Languages
- English and Hindi
- Price
- Free
Questions people ask about kundli
What is a kundli?
A kundli is a map of where the planets stood at the moment and place you were born. It is drawn as twelve houses around a rising sign, and everything in it comes from one instant of time at one point on Earth.
How do I make my kundli online for free?
Enter your date of birth, time of birth and birth place in the form on this page. The chart is computed on the spot from a real astronomical ephemeris. There is no sign-up, no phone number and no payment at any step.
What details are needed to make a kundli?
Three: the date, the time and the place. The place matters as much as the time, because it fixes both the timezone that was in force that year and the horizon the rising sign is measured against.
What is the difference between a kundli and a horoscope?
A kundli is your own chart, drawn from your birth details. A horoscope in the newspaper sense groups everybody born under one of twelve signs. The first is a calculation about one person; the second is a category with millions in it.
Which ayanamsa and house system does this kundli use?
Lahiri ayanamsa, which is the Indian government standard, with whole-sign houses — the common Vedic setting. Both are named on the page rather than left for you to guess, because a different ayanamsa moves every placement near a sign boundary.
Is my birth information stored?
No. The chart is computed on each request and the result lives entirely in the URL, so you can bookmark it or send it to somebody. Nothing is written to an account, because there is no account to write it to.
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