Vedic Birth Chart
Jyotish · sidereal zodiac
Your chart the way Indian astrologers draw it: measured from the stars, with your nakshatra and the planetary periods of your life. Free, no sign-up.
The sky right now
No birth time. The chart is calculated for noon and the houses are counted from the Moon sign. The lagna and the houses need the time.
Why your sign
moved
Western astrology fixes Aries to the spring equinox. Vedic astrology fixes it to the stars. The two have drifted apart by about one degree every 72 years.
The grahas
The nine planets of Jyotish: the seven you can see, and Rahu and Ketu, the two points where the Moon's path crosses the Sun's.
| Graha | Sign | Degree | Nakshatra | Nakshatra lord | House |
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Vimshottari dasha
A 120-year cycle of planetary periods, set by where the Moon stood in its nakshatra at your birth. Press a period to see its sub-periods.
What is a
Vedic chart?
Jyotish is the astrology of India. It uses the same planets in the same sky as Western astrology, but it measures their signs from the fixed stars instead of from the seasons.
Because the equinox slowly slides backwards against the stars, the two zodiacs are now about 24 degrees apart. Most people find that their Vedic Sun sign is the sign before their Western one.
A Vedic reading leans on the Moon more than on the Sun. The Moon's sign and its nakshatra, one of 27 lunar mansions, set the timing of the dasha periods that run through a life.
Questions
The Western zodiac starts at the spring equinox. The Vedic zodiac starts at a point among the stars. The equinox drifts against the stars by about one degree every 72 years, and the gap is now about 24 degrees, so any planet in the first 24 degrees of a Western sign falls in the previous sign in a Vedic chart.
Lahiri, also called Chitrapaksha, is the one adopted by the government of India and used by most Jyotish astrologers. Raman and Krishnamurti differ from it by about a degree or less, which matters only for planets near the edge of a sign or nakshatra.
Yes, but only partly. Without the time we calculate for noon. The planets' signs and the Moon's nakshatra are usually right, since only the Moon moves fast, about 13 degrees a day. The lagna and the houses need the time.
We checked it against the Swiss Ephemeris, the library behind most astrology software, on charts from 1912 to 2025. The planets and the lagna agree to within a few seconds of arc in all three ayanamsas.