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Astrology and Vastu, explained
Plain-English guides to the ideas behind our free tools and daily readings: the grahas, the nakshatras, Vastu, the doshas, and the words you will meet along the way.
Five guides
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- The nine grahasSun to Ketu: what each graha stands for, the signs it rules, its day, colour, gemstone and mantra.
- The 27 nakshatrasEvery lunar mansion with its span of the zodiac, ruling graha, deity, symbol, gana and nature.
- Vastu guideThe 16 zones of a home and what each supports, then room by room: where things traditionally go.
- Doshas explainedMangal dosha, Kaal Sarp, Sade Sati, Pitra and Nadi dosha: what they are, how they are worked out, and why none is cause for fear.
- GlossaryLagna, tithi, dasha, gochar, Rahu kaal, brahmasthan and more, A to Z in plain words.
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Three ideas behind every reading
The sidereal zodiac
Vedic astrology measures the signs against the fixed stars. Because the Earth slowly wobbles, that zodiac now sits about 24° behind the Western one, which is why your Vedic sign is often the one before your Western sign. The gap is called the ayanamsa; this site uses Lahiri’s, the one most Indian astrologers use.
Compare your Vedic and Western sun signsYour moon sign
In India your rashi usually means your moon sign: the sign the Moon was in when you were born, because the Moon stands for the mind. Daily horoscopes, Sade Sati and kundli matching are all read from it, and the Moon’s nakshatra sets your dashas.
Find your moon signYour own chart
A kundli maps the sky at your birth: the lagna rising in the east, the twelve houses counted from it, and where each graha sits. Your rashi is one line of it. A full reading looks at all of it, along with the dashas running now.
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The zodiac
The 12 rashis
Each rashi has its own page: a profile of the sign, its ruling graha, element and nakshatras, and today’s horoscope for everyone born with the Moon there. Under each name: its element and ruling graha.
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