A guide to the twelve bhavas of Vedic astrology In Vedic astrology, life is mapped out through twelve houses, known in Sanskrit as bhavas or sthanas. Each house represents a specific area of your life, weaving together themes, roles, and events like a divine theatre of your karma. Let’s…

Chandra Lagna is a type of horoscope in which the sign occupied by the Moon (Janma Rashi) is treated as the Ascendant (Lagna). This method becomes especially indispensable when the exact time of birth is unknown. However, Chandra Lagna is not only used in cases of unknown birth time. It…

In Indian astrology, there are two traditional ways to draw a Vedic birth chart, and each one carries deep symbolic meaning. 📐 South Indian Style (See Figure 1) This chart is drawn in a fixed pattern — it doesn’t label the zodiac signs. Instead, the second square from the…

Once you’ve identified the planetary coordinates, you can move on to constructing the stellar horoscope, also known as the Vedic or Indian birth chart. While the position of the planets in the zodiac signs reflects the psychological portrait and karma of a person, their position in the astrological houses…

One of the unique features of Jyotish (Vedic astrology) — not found in any other system — is the Principle of Planetary Relationships, also known as friendship and enmity among planets. This principle plays a key role in determining the strength and behavior of a planet in a horoscope. In Vedic tradition…