THE COMPLETE APP REFERENCE
Vedic astrology guide
Read every layer of your Jyotisha chart.
This is the complete app reference, preserved as educational content. Descriptions of app features, Premium tools and guide-only techniques do not mean every described calculation is available on the website. Astrology and numerology are symbolic traditions, not scientific measurements, diagnoses or guarantees.
Foundations
Western and Vedic are distinct systemsA Vedic chart is not a Western chart with different sign labels; it uses its own zodiac reference, techniques, and vocabulary.Sidereal zodiac and ayanamshaThe sidereal zodiac applies an ayanamsha to relate the zodiac to a stellar reference rather than the seasonal tropical origin.What the Vedic settings changeAyanamsha and node mode change calculated positions; North- and South-Indian styles change layout only.Birth-time sensitivityLagna, Bhavas, and some fine-grained placements can change when the birth time or place changes.
Chart layers
LagnaLagna is the sidereal Ascendant and establishes the first Bhava in the foundational Rashi chart.How graha placements are readA graha names the chart function being interpreted; its Rashi, Bhava, nakshatra, pada, condition, and relationships add context.Bhavas and whole-sign housesBhavas organize life topics; the foundational Vedic view uses one complete sidereal Rashi for each Bhava.Nakshatras and padasTwenty-seven equal lunar mansions divide the sidereal zodiac, and each nakshatra contains four padas.
Grahas & nodes
Sun (Surya)Surya symbolizes vitality, coherent identity, purpose, visibility, authority, and the capacity to act from an inner center.Moon (Chandra)Chandra symbolizes the receptive mind, feeling, memory, habit, nourishment, belonging, and the way experience is absorbed.Mercury (Budha)Budha symbolizes discrimination, language, learning, trade, adaptation, humor, and the organization of information.Venus (Shukra)Shukra symbolizes attraction, relationship, pleasure, art, agreement, refinement, fertility, and the values that make life feel worth inhabiting.Mars (Mangala)Mangala symbolizes force, courage, desire, heat, conflict, protection, technical action, and the ability to cut through obstruction.Jupiter (Guru (Brihaspati))Guru symbolizes wisdom, teaching, meaning, faith, counsel, growth, generosity, and the principles that enlarge perspective.Saturn (Shani)Shani symbolizes time, consequence, labor, limits, endurance, responsibility, separation, and competence earned through sustained effort.RahuRahu, the ascending lunar node, symbolizes appetite, amplification, unfamiliar experience, worldly entanglement, experimentation, and the pull toward what feels unfinished.KetuKetu, the descending lunar node, symbolizes separation, inwardness, inherited familiarity, concentrated perception, release, and the limits of what prior mastery can provide.UranusIn a modern sidereal lens, Uranus symbolizes disruption, independence, invention, awakening, and revision of systems that have become too restrictive.NeptuneIn a modern sidereal lens, Neptune symbolizes imagination, ideals, sensitivity, dissolution, longing, and the porous edge between inspiration and projection.PlutoIn a modern sidereal lens, Pluto symbolizes compulsion, power, exposure, elimination, depth, and transformation at the root of a pattern.
Rashis
Mesha (Aries)Mesha describes an initiating, direct, energetic, and self-propelled style when it contains a verified graha, Lagna, or other supported factor.Vrishabha (Taurus)Vrishabha describes a steady, embodied, preserving, and value-conscious style when it contains a verified graha, Lagna, or other supported factor.Mithuna (Gemini)Mithuna describes a curious, verbal, adaptive, comparative, and connective style when it contains a verified graha, Lagna, or other supported factor.Karka (Cancer)Karka describes a receptive, protective, feeling-led, and nurturing style when it contains a verified graha, Lagna, or other supported factor.Simha (Leo)Simha describes a radiant, creative, loyal, self-possessed, and visible style when it contains a verified graha, Lagna, or other supported factor.Kanya (Virgo)Kanya describes a discerning, practical, analytical, and improvement-led style when it contains a verified graha, Lagna, or other supported factor.Tula (Libra)Tula describes a relational, balancing, aesthetic, and negotiating style when it contains a verified graha, Lagna, or other supported factor.Vrischika (Scorpio)Vrischika describes an intense, private, penetrating, loyal, and transformative style when it contains a verified graha, Lagna, or other supported factor.Dhanu (Sagittarius)Dhanu describes an exploratory, principled, candid, and meaning-seeking style when it contains a verified graha, Lagna, or other supported factor.Makara (Capricorn)Makara describes a strategic, disciplined, realistic, and endurance-led style when it contains a verified graha, Lagna, or other supported factor.Kumbha (Aquarius)Kumbha describes a systems-aware, independent, collective, and principle-led style when it contains a verified graha, Lagna, or other supported factor.Meena (Pisces)Meena describes an imaginative, receptive, compassionate, and boundary-soft style when it contains a verified graha, Lagna, or other supported factor.
Bhavas
The 1st Bhava (Tanu)This Bhava is associated with embodied identity, vitality, appearance, and first approach.The 2nd Bhava (Dhana)This Bhava is associated with accumulated resources, speech, values, family, and sustenance.The 3rd Bhava (Sahaja)This Bhava is associated with courage, effort, communication, skill, and close peers.The 4th Bhava (Sukha)This Bhava is associated with home, inner contentment, roots, care, and private foundations.The 5th Bhava (Putra)This Bhava is associated with creativity, intelligence, learning, joy, and authored legacy.The 6th Bhava (Ari)This Bhava is associated with service, routine, repair, obstacles, conflict, and stewardship.The 7th Bhava (Yuvati)This Bhava is associated with partnership, agreement, exchange, and one-to-one encounter.The 8th Bhava (Randhra)This Bhava is associated with vulnerability, shared resources, hidden processes, and change.The 9th Bhava (Dharma)This Bhava is associated with dharma, ethics, teachers, higher learning, and wider meaning.The 10th Bhava (Karma)This Bhava is associated with public action, vocation, responsibility, status, and contribution.The 11th Bhava (Labha)This Bhava is associated with gains, networks, friendship, aspirations, and collective support.The 12th Bhava (Vyaya)This Bhava is associated with release, retreat, expenditure, sleep, distance, and surrender.
Nakshatras & padas
AshwiniAshwini carries themes of swift beginnings, restoration, and responsive movement.BharaniBharani carries themes of containment, consequence, maturation, and creative endurance.KrittikaKrittika carries themes of discernment, purification, appetite, and decisive refinement.RohiniRohini carries themes of cultivation, beauty, embodiment, fertility, and sustained growth.MrigashiraMrigashira carries themes of searching, curiosity, sensitivity, and the pursuit of nourishment.ArdraArdra carries themes of disruption, grief, intensity, truth, and renewal after upheaval.PunarvasuPunarvasu carries themes of return, restoration, spaciousness, and renewed possibility.PushyaPushya carries themes of nourishment, teaching, devotion, structure, and protective care.AshleshaAshlesha carries themes of penetration, binding, instinct, strategy, and hidden complexity.MaghaMagha carries themes of ancestry, inheritance, authority, memory, and stewardship of legacy.Purva PhalguniPurva Phalguni carries themes of pleasure, attraction, creativity, rest, and the joy of union.Uttara PhalguniUttara Phalguni carries themes of agreement, patronage, friendship, commitment, and sustaining a bond.HastaHasta carries themes of skill, making, grasp, wit, and bringing intention into tangible form.ChitraChitra carries themes of design, brilliance, construction, beauty, and the shaping of distinct form.SwatiSwati carries themes of independence, movement, exchange, flexibility, and self-directed growth.VishakhaVishakha carries themes of focused ambition, branching choices, purpose, and movement toward a goal.AnuradhaAnuradha carries themes of devotion, friendship, organization, loyalty, and growth through relationship.JyeshthaJyeshtha carries themes of seniority, protection, responsibility, strategy, and earned authority.MulaMula carries themes of root inquiry, dismantling, origin, truth beneath appearances, and release.Purva AshadhaPurva Ashadha carries themes of purification, persuasion, renewal, conviction, and gathering strength.Uttara AshadhaUttara Ashadha carries themes of enduring principles, responsibility, consolidation, and lasting achievement.ShravanaShravana carries themes of listening, learning, transmission, connection, and meaningful movement.DhanishthaDhanishtha carries themes of rhythm, timing, coordination, contribution, and shared prosperity.ShatabhishaShatabhisha carries themes of containment, truth, privacy, inquiry, and restorative systems.Purva BhadrapadaPurva Bhadrapada carries themes of intensity, idealism, threshold experience, and commitment to transformation.Uttara BhadrapadaUttara Bhadrapada carries themes of depth, stability, patience, containment, and quiet compassion.RevatiRevati carries themes of guidance, safe passage, completion, nourishment, and transition.
Dignity & condition
What dignity and condition describeTraditional condition rules describe how a graha may access or express its significations; they do not measure human worth.Own Rashi and MoolatrikonaOwn-sign and Moolatrikona classifications are traditional ways of describing a graha operating in familiar terrain.Exaltation and debilitationUchcha and Neecha describe traditional conditions of a graha; they are not rankings of a person as elevated or deficient.Rulers, dispositors, and graha relationshipsA placement routes through its Rashi lord, while traditional friendship tables add another relationship layer.Vakri motion, combustion, and other conditionsMotion and solar proximity can modify traditional reading, but neither should be translated into fear-based certainty.
Drishti
Graha drishtiDrishti describes traditional planetary sight and is not the same calculation as a Western degree-based aspect.Sun drishtiSun casts supported whole-sign Parashari drishti to the 7th signs counted from its own Rashi.Moon drishtiMoon casts supported whole-sign Parashari drishti to the 7th signs counted from its own Rashi.Mercury drishtiMercury casts supported whole-sign Parashari drishti to the 7th signs counted from its own Rashi.Venus drishtiVenus casts supported whole-sign Parashari drishti to the 7th signs counted from its own Rashi.Mars drishtiMars casts supported whole-sign Parashari drishti to the 4th, 7th, 8th signs counted from its own Rashi.Jupiter drishtiJupiter casts supported whole-sign Parashari drishti to the 5th, 7th, 9th signs counted from its own Rashi.Saturn drishtiSaturn casts supported whole-sign Parashari drishti to the 3rd, 7th, 10th signs counted from its own Rashi.Yuti and shared-Rashi conjunctionsGrahas occupying the same Rashi are often read together, but Yuti is not silently substituted for the app’s Western conjunction.
Yogas
How yogas are evaluatedA yoga is a named relationship among verified chart factors, not a keyword that can be assigned from one placement alone.Raja and Dhana yoga familiesThese broad families connect specific Bhava lords and chart functions associated with agency, support, resources, or responsibility.Pancha Mahapurusha yogasFive classical patterns describe Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, or Saturn strongly placed in an angular Bhava under specific rules.Gaja Kesari and Chandra MangalaMoon-centered yogas require exact positional rules and careful attention to both participating grahas.Neecha Bhanga and Viparita patternsCancellation and reversal-style yoga families are conditional rules, not automatic promises that difficulty becomes success.
Divisional charts
Vargas and divisional chartsVargas reorganize a graha’s exact sidereal degree into specialized harmonic divisions; they are not separate skies.D1 Rashi chartD1 is the foundational sidereal Rashi chart from which Lagna, whole-sign Bhavas, lordships, and primary placements are read.D9 NavamshaNavamsha divides each Rashi into nine parts and is used to deepen analysis of dharma, maturity, condition, and partnership.D10 DashamshaDashamsha is a tenfold division traditionally consulted for work, contribution, responsibility, and public activity.The wider Varga familyTraditional Varga sets include additional divisions for focused topics, each requiring its own exact mapping and synthesis rules.
Timing & transits
Dasha timing systemsA dasha organizes symbolic planetary periods; it is not an inevitable event schedule or a guarantee about the future.Vimshottari rulers and sequenceThe 120-year symbolic cycle follows a fixed nine-ruler order while the starting point comes from the birth Moon’s nakshatra.Mahadasha, Antardasha, and subperiodsNested dasha levels layer broad and fine timing rulers rather than replacing the natal chart.Gochara: Vedic transitsGochara reads current sidereal graha positions in relation to the natal chart, often with particular attention to the Moon and Lagna.Sade SatiSade Sati names Saturn’s transit through the Rashi before the natal Moon, the Moon Rashi, and the following Rashi.Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu, and Ketu in transitSlower-moving sidereal factors can provide a broad background for reflection when their exact positions and rules are verified.
Relationships
Vedic relationship comparisonTraditional compatibility frameworks can organize reflective questions, but they cannot establish consent, safety, character, or whether two people should form or remain in a relationship.Ashtakoota and the eight KutasAshtakoota is a Moon-nakshatra comparison framework with eight named factors and a conventional maximum score of 36.Mangala DoshaMangala Dosha is a school-dependent Mars-placement framework that must never be treated as a mark of harm or unworthiness.Navamsha in relationship reflectionD9 can add a maturity and partnership lens only after it is calculated accurately and read with both complete natal charts.