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Schools & the Council of Sages

12 traditions. Each named, each by its own rules.

Astrology isn't one method. Kundaly computes each school the way that school does — its own zodiac, node and kārakas where they differ — and every reading says whose rules it followed. In a school's own field of strength, that school answers first.

The Council of Sages

One question. Every tradition that reads it well.

Ask the Council and your question goes to each school, each grounded in its own part of your computed chart. You read their answers side by side — where they agree, you can lean on it; where they differ, you see why.

You ask once — “when does work open up?”
Each school reads its own section of your chart: Parāśara the daśā, Jaimini the kārakas, KP the cusps, Bhṛgu Nandi Nāḍī the transits over Saturn's links…
You see each answer, named — and the agreements and disagreements between them.

Vedic (Jyotiṣa)

Parāśara (classical BPHS)

Reads the yogas, house-lords and the running Vimśottarī daśā — the spine of the app's timing.

Best at

The overall reading of a life
The yogas a chart holds
The life-cycle themes of the running daśā
A planet's strength (Shadbala, Aṣṭakavarga)

Zodiac: sidereal
Node: mean
Chara kārakas: eight
Ayanamsa: the chart's
Houses: whole-sign rāśi (Śrīpati bhāvas for bhāva bala)
Aspects: graha dṛṣṭi — every graha the 7th; Mars the 4th and 8th, Jupiter the 5th and 9th, Saturn the 3rd and 10th, Rāhu and Ketu the 5th and 9th (or the 7th alone, where a chart chooses it)

Jaimini

Reads the Chara kārakas, Kārakāṁśa and rāśi-daśā.

Best at

Status and career (the Ātmakāraka and Amātyakāraka)
The soul's purpose (the Kārakāṁśa)
The periods of the signs (Chara daśā)

Zodiac: sidereal
Node: mean
Chara kārakas: seven
Ayanamsa: the chart's
Houses: whole-sign rāśi
Aspects: rāśi dṛṣṭi — signs aspect signs

Krishnamurti Paddhati (KP)

Reads cuspal sub-lords, significators and ruling planets.

Best at

The exact timing of an event
A yes-or-no question (praśna)
Whether a matter is promised at all — the cuspal sub-lord and the houses it signifies

Zodiac: sidereal
Node: mean
Ayanamsa: KP-Newcomb
Houses: Placidus cusps, each read sign → star → sub

Bhṛgu Nandi Nāḍī

Reads the kārakas, their sign links and Jupiter's and Saturn's transits over them, read without the ascendant — terse, event-focused.

Best at

The specifics of an event through its kāraka planet and that planet's sign links
Which transits set a matter going — Jupiter and Saturn crossing a kāraka's links, read without the ascendant (Lagna)
Family members, each through their kāraka

Zodiac: sidereal
Node: mean
Ayanamsa: the chart's
Houses: none — the ascendant (Lagna) is set aside
Aspects: the kārakas' sign relations — trines (1-5-9), 3-7-11, and the 2nd/12th flanks

Lal Kitab

Reads the pakkā ghar, blind/asleep planets, the debts (ṛṇa) and earthy remedies.

Best at

Everyday remedies (upāya)
Karmic debts (ṛṇa)

Zodiac: sidereal
Node: mean
Ayanamsa: the chart's
Houses: fixed — house N is sign N (the natural-house chart)
Aspects: Lal Kitab's own — the 7th; Jupiter also the 5th and 9th; the 8th house to the 2nd

Nāḍī

Reads the D-150 nāḍī-aṁśa seed and its sixteen secrets, the rāśi- and navāṁśa-tulya readings, the five-element birth reckoning and the Nāḍī family relations — a method apart from Bhṛgu Nandi Nāḍī.

Best at

The destiny overview of a birth — its karmic seed (the D-150) against the soil of the sixteen vargas

Zodiac: sidereal
Node: mean
Ayanamsa: the chart's
Houses: the 150 nāḍī-aṁśas of a sign

Muhūrta & Pañcāṅga

Reads the day's five limbs, tārā and chandra bala and the auspicious windows — the electional and almanac tradition.

Best at

Choosing an auspicious time (muhūrta)
The quality of a day

Zodiac: sidereal
Node: mean
Ayanamsa: the chart's

Tājika

Tājika (annual)

Reads the solar-return year chart — Muntha, year-lord, Sahams and Tājika yogas.

Best at

The year ahead — Varṣaphala, the solar-return chart

Zodiac: sidereal
Node: mean
Ayanamsa: the chart's
Houses: the year chart's

Modern Vedic

Reads the outer grahas and five alternate sign co-lords, and later techniques no classical text holds — each named as modern, never the timing.

Best at

The outer planets' themes (for comparison only)

Zodiac: sidereal
Node: mean
Ayanamsa: the chart's

Western

Western (modern tropical)

Reads the Sun/Moon/Rising, aspects and patterns, and current transits — psychological.

Best at

Personality and psychology
Relationship chemistry (synastry)

Zodiac: tropical
Node: true
Houses: Placidus (Whole Sign, Koch and Equal offered)
Aspects: Ptolemaic and minor aspects, with orbs
Dignities: the later table — one triplicity lord by day and one by night (Mars rules the water signs by both), the Egyptian bounds and the faces, scored five-fold

Hellenistic (ancient Western)

Reads sect, the essential dignities, the planets' joys, whole-sign houses and the annual profection (this year's time-lord).

Best at

This year's time-lord (the annual profection)
A planet's sect — a day or a night chart, and the planets it favours
A planet's essential dignity in the tropical chart, by Dorotheus — domicile, exaltation, his three triplicity lords, bounds and decans
The planets' joys — the place each rejoices in

Zodiac: tropical
Houses: whole-sign
Aspects: by sign
Dignities: Dorotheus's — three triplicity lords (by day, by night, participating), the Egyptian bounds and the decans, named and never scored

Chinese

Chinese Four Pillars (BaZi)

Reads the Day Master and the balance of the five elements across the four pillars.

Best at

The balance of the five elements

Beside the chart

Traditions of their own, read next to your chart and never mixed into it.

Numerology (Aṅka Jyotiṣa)

The numbers of a name and a birth date.

Vāstu Śāstra

The directions and spaces of a home or workplace.

Sāmudrika (palm and face)

The hands and the face — a traditional lore, a reflection and never a verdict on a person.

Svapna Śāstra (dreams)

What a dream signifies in the tradition.

Tarot

A card spread as a mirror for the moment.

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