Kundli (D1)
The main Vedic birth chart: Grahas in rashi, drawn North, South, or East Indian style.
A birth chart is a map of the sky at a particular moment and place. The date determines the planetary positions. The time and location establish the horizon and the houses. The system you read — Vedic or Western — decides how those positions are named and drawn. Enter the details below for a D1 Kundli and a tropical natal chart calculated from that birth data.
Date, time, and place
The date places the planets. Time and location set the horizon, so Lagna and the houses can be drawn.
Two systems, one birth
A Vedic D1 Kundli in North, South, or East Indian style, and a Western natal wheel from the same details.
Sidereal and tropical
Vedic positions use the sidereal zodiac (Lahiri when selected). The Western tab uses the tropical zodiac.
Planetary positions for today, calculated for a reference location, sit below the form so you can see the current sky while you enter a birth. They update with the civil day, not with the chart you are about to calculate.
Today
Sidereal positions at noon in Ujjain, India, for 14 September 2026. Sign and Nakshatra follow the sidereal longitude. This is a snapshot of the current sky for that civil day.
| Planet | Sign | Sidereal longitude | Nakshatra | Pada |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ☉Surya | ♌Simha | 27°14′ | Uttara Phalguni | 1 |
| ☽Chandra | ♎Tula | 5°38′ | Chitra | 4 |
| ♂Mangala | ♊Mithuna | 27°26′ | Punarvasu | 3 |
| ☿Budha | ♍Kanya | 11°43′ | Hasta | 1 |
| ♃Guru | ♋Karka | 22°11′ | Ashlesha | 2 |
| ♀Shukra | ♎Tula | 8°11′ | Swati | 1 |
| ♄Shani | ♓Meena | 18°36′ | Revati | 1 |
| ☊Rahu | ♒Kumbha | 4°22′ | Dhanishtha | 4 |
| ☋Ketu | ♌Simha | 4°22′ | Magha | 2 |
Ayanamsha · Lahiri 24° 13′ 48″
How to read the chart
Begin with Lagna, the Moon, and the Sun. Lagna is the sign on the eastern horizon at the recorded time; it is the starting point of the houses. The Moon shows the mind’s weather and, in Vedic astrology, the Nakshatra that starts the dasha clock. The Sun is a third center: vitality, purpose, and the father.
Those three are not the whole chart. They tell you where to stand before you read the rest of the planets.
Each Graha has a portfolio. The Sun is associated with vitality and authority; the Moon with mind and fluctuation; Mars with heat and courage; Mercury with speech and calculation; Jupiter with dharma and growth; Venus with pleasure and partnership; Saturn with time and endurance. Rahu and Ketu, the lunar nodes, are treated as Grahas as well: appetite and release, the foreign and the already-lived.
A planet’s meaning in a chart is not that list alone. It is that list, colored by sign, housed by bhava, and timed by dasha.
The twelve rashis from Aries to Pisces are the styles through which a planet acts. Fire signs (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) are initiating; earth (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) consolidating; air (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) relating through idea; water (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) relating through feeling. The same Mars is a different instrument in Virgo than in Aries.
The twelve houses give those planets somewhere to act: body and presence in the first, livelihood in the tenth, partnership in the seventh, home in the fourth, and so on around the wheel. Inner Light counts Vedic houses as whole signs from the Lagna. Western houses use the system chosen in the form.
A useful reading is relational. The lord of the tenth sitting in the sixth is a different vocational picture from that same lord exalted in the tenth. Aspects, yogas, Nakshatra, and the current Mahadasha are ways of seeing those relationships. No single line in the table is the chart.
The Vedic D1 chart uses the sidereal zodiac, usually with Lahiri ayanamsha: the signs stay with the stars. The Western natal chart uses the tropical zodiac: 0° Aries at the March equinox, so the signs stay with the seasons. Switch the tabs on this page to see both from the same birth details.
If birth time is unknown, planetary signs are still calculated. The rising sign, houses, and dasha need a clock time because they depend on the horizon.
Longer notes live in the guides.
On this site
The same birth details can be read as a Kundli, a natal wheel, or a comparison with another chart. Panchang and numerology answer different questions from the same day.
The main Vedic birth chart: Grahas in rashi, drawn North, South, or East Indian style.
The rising sign and the twelve houses, counted from the eastern horizon at birth.
A tropical wheel with signs, houses from the Ascendant, and the major aspects.
The Moon’s lunar mansion and Pada, which also start the Vimshottari dasha.
Tithi, Vara, Nakshatra, Yoga, and Karana for a date and place, with sunrise windows.
Eight daytime and eight nighttime watches for choosing a time to begin.
The current Mahadasha and Antardasha, counted from the Moon’s Nakshatra.
Life Path and name numbers from a date and a name, in Pythagorean or Chaldean form.
Two charts compared by major aspects, with Ashta Koota from the two Moons.