Mars placement check
LiveIs there Mangal Dosha in your kundli?
Mangal Dosha is a placement rule, not a verdict. We check Mars from the lagna, the Moon and Venus, show all three, and tell you how common the result is.
Enter your birth details
Sidereal, with the Lahiri ayanamsa — the Vedic default.
How common is this?
Mars lands in one of the six counted houses in a large share of charts. Our own sampling puts it above 40% once all three references are allowed. It is common, not exceptional. Traditions also disagree about which houses and which reference should count at all.
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The rule, in full
Mars is said to afflict six of the twelve houses. Whether your chart counts depends entirely on which point you measure those houses from — and the three schools do not agree.
From the lagna
The most widely used reference. Houses counted from your rising sign.
From the Moon
Preferred across much of North India, and the reference used when the birth time is uncertain.
From Venus
Added by some schools because Venus signifies marriage. The least universal of the three.
The counted houses are the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th and 12th. Some traditions drop the 2nd; some southern schools add the 5th. We use the six above, from all three references, and show each separately rather than collapsing them into one answer.
How common it is
This is the part the remedy trade never puts in front of you. We ran 5,000 randomly generated births between 1950 and 2025 through the same engine that reads your chart, and counted:
49.5%
From the lagna
49.9%
From the Moon
53.2%
From Venus
88.6%
By at least one of them
Why it comes out at exactly half
There is no mystery in the 49.5%. The rule counts six houses out of twelve, and Mars is spread fairly evenly around the zodiac. So it lands in one of them about half the time. Allow all three references and you are asking whether any of three near-coin-flips came up heads — which is why the figure climbs to roughly nine people in ten.
A property shared by nearly everybody is not a diagnosis. Suppose you have been told you are manglik, and that it will cost you a marriage. The number above is the context that was left out of the telling.
At a glance
- Method
- Mangal in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th or 12th
- Ephemeris
- VSOP87 and Brown’s lunar theory
- Ayanamsa
- Lahiri, the Indian government standard
- Zodiac
- Sidereal (nirayana)
- Accuracy
- Within 10 arcseconds of NASA JPL Horizons
- Sign-up
- None
- What we store
- Nothing. Your result lives in the URL
- Languages
- English and Hindi
- Price
- Free
Questions people ask about Mangal Dosha
What is Mangal Dosha?
It is Mangal (Mars) sitting in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th or 12th house. The tradition reads Mangal as heat, drive and the will to push through, and those six houses as the body, the home, the partner and what is held in common.
How do I know if I am manglik?
Enter your birth details on this page. The check needs an exact birth time, because the houses are measured from the rising sign and that moves about one degree every four minutes.
Is Mangal Dosha common?
Very. Measured over 5,000 charts, 88.6% carry it by at least one classical reference. The rule puts Mangal in six houses out of twelve, so each reference catches about half of all charts before anybody looks at anything else.
Is it checked from the lagna, the Moon or Venus?
All three are used by different traditions, and they disagree. Measured over 5,000 charts: 49.5% from the lagna, 49.9% from the Moon, 53.2% from Shukra (Venus). A reading that says "manglik" without naming the reference has not told you much.
Does Mangal Dosha get cancelled?
Several classical rules cancel it outright — Mangal in its own sign, Mangal with or aspected by Guru (Jupiter), both charts carrying it, and others. A rule that applies to nine charts in ten needs that many exits.
What remedy is needed for Mangal Dosha?
Nothing on this site is a reason to buy anything — no stone, no puja, no consultation. If a reading arrives with a price attached to the dosha, the price is the product. The figures here are free for exactly that reason.
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