What a Birth Chart Is

The birth city is geocoded. The zone offset is applied before the Julian day. Where the zone observes daylight saving, the offset is not the same in January and in July, and the lagna can change with it. The first house is the self. From it the houses run in order: wealth and speech, courage, home, children, conflict and debt, marriage, longevity, dharma, career, gains, loss and foreign residence. Swiss Ephemeris places the grahas in sidereal signs under the Lahiri ayanamsa. That object is the birth chart. A sun sign in a newspaper is not.

Vimshottari begins at the Moon's nakshatra. The nine mahadashas total 120 years. Without the nakshatra you have a map and no clock. A free account can generate the kundli and chat with the AI astrologer. Paid plans add PDF reports, extra divisional charts, and WhatsApp transit alerts. Prices are omitted. Navamsa is the division opened for the seventh house of marriage. It is included in the idea of a full chart, not a rival product.

It will not diagnose a body, name a lucky color for a month, or curse a neighbor. It will say which lord rules the tenth of career and which period is running. Two births on one date in two cities can differ because the offsets differ. That is why the city is not optional. If the time is uncertain, say so. A precise fiction is worse than a honest range of lagnas.