Your natal chart in the classical North-Indian "kite" layout. The houses (H1, H2, …) are areas of life and stay in fixed diamond positions; the signs (♈, ♉, …) rotate. House 1 is always the diamond at the top — your ascendant — and the rest count counter-clockwise.
Same chart, South-Indian grid layout. Here the signs stay in fixed positions and the houses rotate around your ascendant — Pisces is always the top-left cell, Aries next, and so on clockwise. The cell highlighted in saffron is house 1 (your ascendant sign).
A "zoom-in" on each sign — every 30° is split into nine sub-segments of 3°20′. The D-9 (or Navāṃśa) is the second-most-consulted chart after the D-1; it reveals planetary strength, marriage / spouse themes, and the deeper dharma a person came in to live.
The same D-9 in South-Indian grid layout. A planet that sits in the same sign in both the D-1 and the D-9 is called vargottama — "in its own sub-division" — and is considered specially powerful in its expression.
The 360° zodiac is also divided into 27 nakṣatras (lunar mansions of ~13°20′ each). The one the Moon occupied at your birth is your janma nakṣatra — a primary lens in Vedic astrology, the seed of the Vimshottari daśā cycle below, and a strong indicator of temperament.
A point-based strength system unique to Vedic astrology. Each sign collects "bindus" (dots, 0–8 from each planet) based on classical rules. More bindus → that sign is more supportive — whatever planet is there finds easier expression, and transits through it tend to go well. Green cells are strong support, red are weaker. Useful for transit timing: "Saturn is moving through a sign with only 24 bindus" usually means a tough year.
Every planet's exact placement at your birth — sign, house, nakṣatra, pada, the nakṣatra's lord, and any classical dignity (exalted, own sign, debilitated). Planets marked ℞ were moving retrograde at the moment of birth.
Classical Vedic readings drawn from a traditional interpretation set, in plain English. Each planet gets two short essays — its meaning in the sign it landed in, and its meaning in the house it occupies. Read top-to-bottom for an overview of the soul's themes; click ▾ on any block to collapse it.
A 120-year cycle, started from your janma nakṣatra above. At any moment in your life, one planet is the "mahā-daśā" lord — its themes run through that whole long period (6–20 years). Inside each mahā, sub-periods called bhuktis (antardaśās) refine the influence further. The currently-active mahā is highlighted in saffron; click any row to see its bhuktis.
A zoom into the present moment of your daśā cycle. The antardaśā (bhukti) is the active sub-period of the current mahā — and the pratyantar is the sub-sub-period within that, refining the influence to within a few months.
Notable classical planetary combinations detected in your chart — Pancha Mahāpuruṣa (great-person yogas), Gaja-Kesari (Jupiter-Moon strength), Parivartana (mutual sign-exchange), retrogrades, combustions, and similar patterns flagged by the tradition.
The saṅkalpa is the formal statement of intent recited at the start of a puja or any deliberate ritual act. It anchors the rite in cosmic time by locating the moment within nested cycles — from the 60-year Jovian cycle down to the half-tithi (karaṇa), declaring when the act is being performed before naming what is being undertaken.
This calendar follows the tradition of Kauai Aadheenam (Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Śaiva Dharma Śāstras). For a full pañchāṅga computed for your location anywhere on earth — daily tithi, yoga, karaṇa, nakṣatra, kāla windows and sunrise/sunset times — download the printable Mini Mela Pañchāṅga at minimela.org/panchang.
Charts are stored in localStorage. Use Download JSON from the Birth Chart tab to persist them as files in the data/charts/ folder.
A friendly window onto the sky as Indian tradition has watched it for thousands of years. Three tabs: a live solar system to look at, a birth chart to read, and a saṅkalpa to recite when the moment matters.
Jyotiṣa (literally "the science of light") is the Vedic study of how the heavens move and what those motions mean for life on earth. It's the older sibling of what most of the world calls astrology — same sky, longer memory, deeper philosophy.
Where Western astrology tracks the seasons, Vedic astrology tracks the actual stars. The two systems drifted apart over the last seventeen centuries and now sit about 24° off from each other — almost an entire sign. So if you've been told you're a Western Aries, you're probably a Vedic Pisces. Same you, same sky, two different starting lines.
Vedic astrology works with nine "planets" — not the modern astronomical nine, but the nine celestial influences the rishis identified as significant to a human life:
Rāhu and Ketu aren't physical bodies — they're the two points where the Moon's orbit crosses the path of the Sun. Eclipses happen near them.
A note on Rāhu and karma. Of the nine, Rāhu carries a particular weight in Vedic thought: it represents the karmic current you're being pulled into this lifetime — the unfinished work your soul has come to meet. That's the source of Rāhu's famous obsessive, seeking atmosphere — you reach for what Rāhu touches not because it's familiar but because something in you remembers it and isn't done. The house Rāhu sits in is often where the densest karmic work of a person's life is centered.
The Vedic tradition, especially as taught in the Śaiva path of South India and Kauai's Hindu monastery, takes a striking position: you are not separate from the divine. In Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's words, "You are in truth, the Truth you seek." The universe is not a thing that contains you. It is the form your own consciousness takes.
Read this way, the planets in your chart are not external powers acting on a separate "you." They are visible reflections of motions already moving inside you. The Sun above mirrors the soul-light within. The Moon mirrors the receptive mind. Saturn's slow grind mirrors the patient labor of your own discipline; Jupiter's expansion mirrors your own capacity for grace. Mars is the spark in your blood; Venus is the love in your attention.
The sky is a diagram of yourself, drawn at the scale of the cosmos. Jyotiṣa is the art of reading that diagram backwards — looking outward to see what's stirring inward, then turning inward to meet it consciously.
That's why the chart isn't a sentence of fate. It's a map. The planets show what currents are moving; what you do with them is your sādhana — your spiritual practice.
Built with care. Data: astronomy-engine for planet positions, Open-Meteo for place lookup, Kauai Aadheenam's pañchāṅga service for the saṅkalpa. The deeper teachings are from Sat-guru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's Dancing with Śiva, Living with Śiva, and Merging with Śiva — the three books that name the three seasons (ṛtau) on the Saṅkalpa page.