राशि the twelve signs

Twelve rāshi, nine grahas.

The Sun sign is where most people start. In a sitting we read from the Moon sign and the lagna as well. The dates below are sidereal, as Vedic astrology counts them.

Tonight the Moon is in  nakshatra, in .

मेष वृषभ मिथुन कर्क सिंह कन्या तुला वृश्चिक धनु मकर कुम्भ मीन

tonight

राशिचक्र the wheel

The wheel of the rāshi.

Choose a sign to read about it. The Moon is marked where it stands tonight.

तिथि the moon's month

One month of the Moon.

Scroll to move the Moon through its month: thirty tithis in two halves, from new to full and back.

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नवग्रह the nine grahas

Tonight’s sky, from above.

The nine grahas where they stand tonight, drawn as Jyotish draws the sky: the Earth at the centre and, ring by ring, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, each at its sidereal place. Rāhu and Ketu, the Moon’s two nodes, sit on the Moon’s ring. Around the outside is the belt of the twelve rāshi. Choose a graha and a line is drawn from Ludhiana out to the belt, to the sign it is in tonight. The trail behind each shows which way it is moving; a planet moving backward is vakrī.

Drag to turn the sky · choose a graha to read it · + / − to come closer

Tonight’s skyEarth at the centre, and round it the Moon, then Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn — the order Jyotish keeps; Rāhu and Ketu on the Moon’s ring; the twelve rāshi around the rim

Your rāshi is one part of your chart. The rest is in your kundalī.

पञ्चाङ्ग the months ahead

The months ahead.

Each day shows the tithi at sunrise and the Moon’s phase that night. Ekādashī, Pūrnimā, Amāvasyā and the Sun’s Sankrānti are marked.

Choose a day to read it.

Pūrnimā, Amāvasyā, Sankrānti Ekādashī Darker cells are Krishna paksha, the waning half.

Calculated for Ludhiana. Dates for a vrat or a festival can differ by tradition; confirm with us before you fix a rite.

नामाक्षर name by the stars

A first letter from the sky.

A child’s name traditionally begins with a syllable from the Moon’s nakshatra at birth. Choose a nakshatra; tonight’s is selected.

Birth nakshatra

The pada, the quarter of the nakshatra, decides which of the four syllables. We confirm it at the naming and choose a muhūrta for it.

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