Free Vedic birth chart (Kundli) calculator

What is a Vedic birth chart, or kundli?

The Vedic birth chart is the map of the sky at your birth as Jyotish reads it, the astrology of India introduced in our overview. In Hindi it is called kundli or janam kundali, the “birth chart”: searching for a kundli in English means looking for this very chart. It places the planets in the sidereal zodiac, anchored to the stars, with the Lahiri ayanamsa.

The site follows its classical conventions: nine planets, from the Sun to Saturn plus Rahu and Ketu, the nodes of the Moon, always facing each other; whole-sign houses, where the sign of the Ascendant forms the entire first house. Your Western chart, in the tropical zodiac, remains another reading of the same sky, explained in tropical or sidereal.

In India, the kundli is drawn as a square: with diamond-shaped houses in the North Indian style, in boxes where the signs stay fixed in the South Indian style. The site presents it as a wheel: same signs, same houses, same planets, only the shape changes.

What does the Vedic chart calculator show?

Once the date, time and place are entered, the result gathers on a single page what the other Vedic calculators give separately:

• The Vedic chart wheel, opened on the D1, the chart of signs.
• The list of the twenty divisional charts, from D1 to D60: choose one and the wheel is redrawn.
• Three checkboxes, Nakshatras, Dashas and Karakas, to show or hide each layer depending on what you are looking for.
• An “i” bubble next to each box, which explains the notion in a few words before you tick it.
• Links to the pages that detail each notion, to go deeper without losing sight of your chart.

Already calculated your Western birth chart? On its page, a Tropical / Vedic choice also sits at the wheel: you switch from one reading to the other without entering your details again.

How to read your Vedic chart wheel

Start with the Ascendant, the lagna: its sign forms your first house, the next sign the second, and so on all around the wheel. Then find the Moon, almost as important as the Ascendant in Vedic astrology: its sign and its house describe your inner world. Finally, spot the ruler of the Ascendant, the planet that rules its sign: its house shows where your energy goes.

The Vedic wheel draws no aspect lines: planets look at one another from sign to sign. All of them aspect the seventh sign counted from their own; Mars also aspects the fourth and the eighth, Jupiter the fifth and the ninth, Saturn the third and the tenth. Nor does it write a Midheaven: the tenth house is simply the tenth sign from the Ascendant. The page on the D1, the Rasi, details this reading.

The twenty divisional charts: which one to open?

Each divisional chart (varga, “division”) cuts the signs into finer parts to shed light on one area of life. The calculator’s list offers them all, in order, and the divisional charts page explains their logic. Here is what each one looks at:

• D1, Rasi: the body, the whole of life, the mother chart of all the others.
• D2, Hora: resources, what you build up.
• D3, Drekkana: brothers and sisters, courage, initiative.
• D4, Chaturthamsha: home, property, a stable footing.
• D5, Panchamsha: renown, authority, the merit of past lives.
• D6, Shashtamsha: obstacles to overcome, areas to watch and their levers.
• D7, Saptamsha: children, the creativity that is handed on.
• D8, Ashtamsha: sudden transformations, resilience.
• D9, Navamsha: the spouse, dharma, inner strength; the most important after the D1.
• D10, Dashamsha: profession, career, your place in the world.
• D11, Rudramsha: the trials that transform, or gains in another reading.
• D12, Dwadashamsha: parents, lineage, what you receive from them.
• D16, Shodashamsha: comfort, vehicles, material joys.
• D20, Vimshamsha: spiritual life, practice, devotion.
• D24, Chaturvimshamsha: studies, acquired knowledge.
• D27, Bhamsha: strengths and weaknesses, vitality.
• D30, Trimshamsha: rough patches and the levers to get through them.
• D40, Khavedamsha: happy and thwarted effects, the maternal legacy.
• D45, Akshavedamsha: character, conduct, the paternal legacy.
• D60, Shashtiamsha: the karma of past lives, the weave of the whole life.

Nakshatras, dashas, karakas: the three checkboxes

The wheel on its own is already rich; the three layers are added when you need them, and hidden again to keep it readable. Each box carries its “i” bubble: one tap tells you what it shows before you tick it.

• Nakshatras: the lunar mansion of your planets, starting with the Moon’s, your Janma nakshatra, which colours your sensitivity. The nakshatra calculator also presents it on its own, with its pada, its ruler and its deity.
• Dashas: your Vimshottari periods, the major period you are going through and those that follow, dated. The dasha calculator unfolds them one by one, with their sub-periods.
• Karakas: the seven Jaimini karakas, from the Atmakaraka, the planet furthest along in its sign, which tells you what your soul has come to accomplish, to the Darakaraka, the planet of the spouse.

Why the exact birth time matters for a Vedic chart

The Ascendant changes sign every two hours on average, and with whole-sign houses the whole wheel turns with it: a wrong Ascendant moves every planet by a house. In the divisional charts, the precision required grows with the number: the Ascendant of the D9 changes every thirteen minutes on average, that of the D60 every two minutes.

The Moon moves about half a degree an hour: enough to change pada, sometimes nakshatra, and to shift the dates of your dashas by several months. Use a recorded birth time; if it is rounded, rely first on the D1 and the D9, and keep the D60 for a time you are sure of to the minute.

Where to start reading your Vedic chart?

Twenty charts and three layers are a lot for a first look. A simple order keeps you from getting lost:

1. The D1: the Ascendant, its ruler, the Moon and its house.
2. The Nakshatras box: the Moon’s nakshatra, then the Ascendant’s.
3. The Dashas box: the planet of the current period, then its place in the wheel.
4. The D9, to see whether that planet keeps its promises, then the chart of the area on your mind: the D10 for career, the D9 for partnership, the D2 for resources.
5. The Karakas box, to tie it all to what your soul has come to accomplish.

A specific question? Your chart answers you, the site’s chat, draws on your Vedic chart when the question calls for it, the Moon’s nakshatra, the current period, the D9 or the D10, and says when it is speaking in Vedic terms.