From your birth to an answer — and the working in between.
Nothing here is a canned paragraph. Your chart is calculated, the classical rules are applied to it, and the answer you read carries the reasoning that produced it.
1. Your birth details
Date, place and the time if you know it. The place sets the latitude, longitude and the clock that was really in use that day — local mean time before standard time, and summer time where it applied.
2. Your chart, computed
Planet positions come from the JPL DE440 ephemeris, turned sidereal by your chart's ayanāṁśa. Then the full classical toolkit: the sixteen divisional charts, Ṣaḍbala, Aṣṭakavarga, the yogas, the daśās, KP cusps — each by its own school's rules.
3. The rules, applied
Every finding keeps its why: the placements it rests on, the principle applied, the school it belongs to, and the text the principle comes from.
4. Your answer
The Guru — an AI — answers your question from those computed findings, quoting them rather than reaching for generic lore, and names the school it is speaking for.
One chart, several traditions.
Parāśara, Jaimini, Krishnamurti Paddhati, Bhṛgu Nandi Nāḍī, Lal Kitab, Nāḍī, Tājika, and the Western and Hellenistic charts beside them. Where schools differ on a convention — the lunar node, the chara kārakas, the ayanāṁśa — each is computed its own way, and every reading says whose it is.
Your time, as the clocks kept it.
A birth an hour from a clock change, a pre-1950 local-time birth, a chart cast for today at your birth place in summer — each is read on the clock that place actually kept that day. A daily reading for a London birth doesn't run an hour early all summer.
Said out loud, never papered over.
An unknown birth time
No rising sign, no houses, and daśā dates seeded from an assumed hour — so they're shown as provisional. The Moon may have changed sign that day: you see both, and when it changed. Rectification narrows the time from your own life's events.
A time near a change of sign
One chart in five has its rising sign change within ten minutes of the recorded time. Where yours does, the reading says so — and what the other sign would change.
A clock change
A birth in the hour the clocks went back happened twice; one in the hour they skipped never did. The chart names which reading it takes, and the rising sign under each.
A birth near the pole
With no sunrise that day, nothing counted from sunrise can be computed. The reading names exactly what that leaves out — never a guessed substitute.
The texts behind the rules.
The classical works the engine's rules are drawn from and cite. A rule that no text supports isn't added to fill a gap.
- Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra — the foundation: houses, lords, yogas, the daśās, Ṣaḍbala and Aṣṭakavarga
- Phaladīpikā — yogas, the cancellation of debilitation, and the reading of results
- Sārāvalī — planetary combinations and their results
- Jātaka Pārijāta — yogas and the strength of planets
- Bṛhat Jātaka — the grammar of a chart
- Uttara Kālāmṛta — the significations of houses and planets
- Jaimini's Sūtras — the chara kārakas, sign aspects and the sign periods
- Bṛhat Saṁhitā — the nakṣatras and omens
- Muhūrta Cintāmaṇi — the choosing of auspicious times
- Tājika Nīlakaṇṭhī — the year chart — Varṣaphala
- Sūrya Siddhānta — the astronomy beneath it all, and the length of the year
- Dorotheus and Ptolemy — the Hellenistic and later Western dignities
Precise about the sky. Humble about the future.
The positions are computed precisely and the rules are applied faithfully. Whether astrology foretells events is not established, and Kundaly doesn't claim it — a light for your reflection — never a verdict.
What it won't do.
- Predict when anyone will die.
- Tell you to buy or sell anything.
- Diagnose, or stand in for a doctor.
- Invent a source, a statistic or a rule.