Asking Vega a question in Vedic astrology: D1, D9, nakshatras and dashas

How do you ask Vega a question in Vedic astrology?

Vega, the site’s chat, is waiting on every page, behind the round button at the bottom right. For an answer in Vedic astrology, say so in your question: “in Vedic astrology”, “in sidereal”, or a notion from Jyotish, a nakshatra, a dasha, a chart such as the D9. Western astrology remains the site’s starting point: Vedic astrology is your choice.

To talk about you, Vega needs your chart calculated with your birth time: calculate your birth chart, or write your birth details in the question; the site reads them and offers to check them, without using up a question.

1. Tap Vega’s button, on any page.
2. Write your question, adding “in Vedic astrology”, or naming a chart, a nakshatra or a dasha.
3. Keep going: “And in my D10?” or “Which sub-period comes next?” are understood as the rest of the conversation.

On the wheel of your chart, the “Tropical (Western)” or “Vedic (sidereal)” choice shows these charts one at a time; the site’s Vedic astrology section explains every notion, with a page for each chart, nakshatra and dasha.

What Vega reads in your Vedic chart

The site calculates your Vedic chart itself, to the exact place and minute: sidereal zodiac, Lahiri ayanamsa, whole-sign houses counted from the Ascendant of each chart. Vega only quotes that calculation, never a placement from memory (calculation accuracy). She has in front of her:

• The D1, or Rasi: your Vedic birth chart, the mother of all the other charts.
• The nakshatras: the 27 lunar mansions of 13°20′, each made of four padas; Vega knows the one of every planet, starting with your Moon.
• The Vimshottari dashas: nine major periods over a 120-year cycle, each divided into sub-periods, counted from the nakshatra of your Moon.
• The Jaimini karakas: the seven planets ranked by their degree within their sign; the most advanced, the Atmakaraka, tells what the soul comes to accomplish.

Everything else about the chat stays the same, free questions included: see the chat guide.

Which divisional chart for which question?

A divisional chart, or varga, cuts each sign into parts and redistributes your planets: the D9 cuts it into nine, the D10 into ten, up to the D60. Each one magnifies an area of life. A D9 is interpreted as a chart, from its Ascendant and its houses, then read again with the D1: a planet that keeps its sign in both charts, called vargottama, comes out stronger.

Name the chart yourself (“What does my D9 say about my relationship?”), or let Vega choose the one that answers your question:

• D9, the Navamsha: love, the bond and the spouse, what the soul ripens.
• D10, the Dashamsha: career, profession, your place in the world.
• D2, the Hora: money, resources.
• D7, the Saptamsha: children, descendants.
• D4, the Chaturthamsha: home, the house, property.
• D12, the Dwadashamsha: parents, lineage.
• D20, the Vimshamsha: spiritual life.
• D24, the Chaturvimshamsha: studies.
• D60, the Shashtiamsha: karma, past lives, only with a birth time certain to the minute, and spoken of gently.

Why your birth time is essential in Vedic astrology

Every Vedic chart starts from its Ascendant, which changes sign about every two hours, and much faster in the finer charts: the D9 needs a birth time accurate to about thirteen minutes, the D10 to twelve, the D60 to two. Without a time, the site does not calculate your Vedic chart: Vega then answers general questions about Jyotish, without applying them to your chart.

The time appears on your full birth certificate: why the time matters explains where to find it, and the wheel of your chart shows the birth time accuracy each chart needs.

How Vega says it, and why she never mixes the two zodiacs

The tropical zodiac of Western astrology follows the seasons, the sidereal zodiac follows the stars: about 24 degrees separate them, and your Sun often changes sign. A Sun at 10° Taurus in Western astrology sits around 16° Aries in Vedic astrology. That is normal: each reading is right within its own frame.

So Vega always names the zodiac or the chart: “in Vedic astrology, your Moon is in Gemini”, “in your D9, Venus is in Capricorn”. She never mixes a sidereal placement with a tropical one. When the question calls for it, she crosses the two, in this order:

• The verdict, first.
• The Western chart: your tropical chart.
• The Vedic D1: what it confirms or nuances.
• The chart for the topic: the D9 for a bond, the D10 for work.
• The current period: the major period and its sub-period.

“When” in Vedic astrology: major periods and sub-periods

For a question about timing, “What does my Jupiter period bring me?”, Vega relies on your dashas calculated by the site: the current major period (mahadasha), its sub-period (antardasha), and the dates of every sub-period of that major period and of the next one.

These dates describe a climate, a dynamic, levers, never the date of an event or a fate written in advance. The sky of the moment is read in Western astrology: My transits lays it over your chart, and Vega and the present moment explains how she uses it.