Inside your Vedic astrology reading

Jyotish reads a person through three points, not one. The Ascendant is the body and the life you walk into; the Moon is the mind and how you actually experience it; the Sun is the soul and what you are here to become. This opening chapter reads all three together and explains where they agree and where they pull against each other — which is usually where a person feels most divided.

In this chapter

• Ascendant (lagna): sign & lord
• Moon sign (rashi) & birth star (nakshatra)
• Sun sign & dignity
• How the three interact

All nine planets (grahas), one at a time, with nothing skipped. For each planet you get its sign, house, nakshatra and pada, its dignity — exalted, debilitated, own sign, friendly, combust, retrograde — and a plain verdict on whether it is helping or hindering you, and in which part of life.

In this chapter

• Sun through Ketu
• Exaltation & debilitation
• Combustion & retrogression
• Planetary war & cancelled debilitation (neecha bhanga)

The houses are the rooms of your life — wealth, family, career, marriage, health, loss. Every one is read through its lord, its occupants and the aspects falling on it. This chapter also identifies the classical yogas actually active in your chart, and goes beyond the main chart into five divisional charts, each of which magnifies a single area.

In this chapter

• All 12 houses (bhavas)
• Raj, Dhana & Pancha Mahapurusha yogas
• D9 Navamsha (marriage) · D10 Dashamsha (career)
• D3 siblings · D7 children · D12 parents
• Strength scores for every house (ashtakavarga)

This is the chapter that answers when. Your life periods (the Vimshottari dasha) are mapped out: the major period you are living through and the sub-periods inside it, with the last six months reviewed so you can check the reading against what actually happened, and the next twelve laid out period by period.

In this chapter

• Your current life period (mahadasha)
• The sub-periods within it (antardasha)
• 6 months reviewed
• 12 months ahead

Three transits outweigh all the others in a human life. Saturn tests and matures, and if you are in Sade Sati you are told exactly which phase and what it is asking of you. Jupiter opens doors. The Rahu-Ketu axis marks the karmic pull between what you crave and what you must release.

In this chapter

• Saturn’s transit & your Sade Sati phase
• Jupiter transit
• Rahu-Ketu axis
• Dates & durations

A solar-return chart cast for the moment the Sun returns to its exact birth position this year. Varshaphala narrows the reading from a whole life down to the twelve months you are actually in, through the Muntha and its lord — the year-point that moves one house every birthday.

In this chapter

• Your solar return chart
• The year-point (Muntha) & its lord
• Year lord
• Theme for the 12 months

Remedies chosen for your chart rather than pulled from a generic list — because the gemstone that strengthens one person's chart can actively harm another's. You get the specific stone, mantra, charity and fast that apply to you, plus three auspicious windows in the year ahead for beginning something that matters.

In this chapter

• Gemstone (with cautions)
• Mantra & japa count
• Charity (daana) & fasting
• 3 auspicious windows (muhurta)

Included when you ask your own questions

If you asked something specific when ordering — about a marriage, a job change, a move, a health worry — it gets its own dedicated section, answered from your chart rather than in general terms.

In this chapter

• Your specific question
• Answered from your chart