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Pick your rising sign to begin. You’ll see your identity, today’s sky mapped to your houses, and this month’s horoscope written for you. No account needed.

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Read classical Vedic texts with your chart in view.

VedaCharts is a study companion for the classical Vedic texts. We host them in full, calculate your chart, and pair the two so the verses describing your placements highlight as you read.

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Your chart, calculated and read

Birth data goes in, a Vedic chart comes out. Tap any planet, house, or aspect to see what's happening on your chart specifically. Save it and come back any time.

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Study

A guided path through Brihat Jataka

Walk the text chapter by chapter with plain-English explanations and the engine drawing the rules live from your own chart. Foundations first, then a complete reading method.

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Read the sources

Four foundational texts, in full

Brihat Jataka, Brihat Samhita, Sarvartha Chintamani, and Jataka Chandrika in their public-domain English translations. Verses describing your placements highlight as you read.

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Your study tools

A workbench built around your chart

My Charts is the workbench that opens up around your saved chart. The dashboard lays your chart out with the classical rules drawn live from each placement. Timing tools walk your dasa periods and the slow transits landing on your houses. Compare two charts, find an auspicious moment, read your annual return.

  • Dashboard with planet portraits and life-area views
  • Dasa journey, today’s sky on your houses, year ahead
  • Synastry: compare two charts side by side
  • Muhurta finder for choosing an auspicious time
  • Varshaphal: your annual return chart
  • Verse explorer: every classical verse that describes your chart
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The whole site, personalized to your chart

A lesson on the 7th lord points out where your 7th lord actually sits. The library highlights the verses that describe your specific planets as you read. The home page shows what today's sky is doing in your houses, with a daily brief written for your chart.

  • A daily brief written for your chart
  • Library verses about your placements highlighted as you read
  • Lessons that point out the placements you actually have
  • Articles picked daily from the topics in your chart
  • Alerts when your dasa changes or a slow transit lands on your chart
  • A page listing every library verse that describes your chart
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The library

Read classical texts of Vedic astrology

A library of classical Vedic astrology texts, hosted in full English translation. As you read, the verses that describe placements in your chart are highlighted, so the source meets your chart on the same page.

Brihat Jataka

Varahamihira

Jataka Chandrika

Venkatesa Pandita

Brihat Samhita

Varahamihira

Sarvartha Chintamani

Venkatesa Daivajna

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The study guide

How the Study Guide to Brihat Jataka is laid out

Nine modules, in four stages. From the foundations to a complete reading method.

  1. Foundations

    Signs, houses, planets, dignities, and the lagna. The vocabulary every reading takes for granted.

    Modules 1–2BJ Ch. 1–2

  2. Reading the chart

    A repeatable method for any chart. Lagna lord, Moon, house rulers, and an example end to end.

    Module 2Examples

  3. Timing and combinations

    Vimshottari dasa, ashtakavarga strength, named yogas, and the way they activate a chart in periods.

    Modules 3–6Dasas + yogas

  4. Depth and synthesis

    Nakshatras, aspects, planets in the houses, the Navamsha, and a complete chart read end to end.

    Modules 7–9Final reading
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Common Questions

Vedic astrology (Jyotish) is the traditional Hindu system of astrology originating from ancient India. It uses the sidereal zodiac, which tracks the actual positions of stars and constellations, and includes nine planets (Navagrahas), 12 signs (Rashis), 12 houses (Bhavas), and timing systems like Dashas to interpret life patterns and events.

A Rasi chart (also called D1 or birth chart) is the foundational chart in Vedic astrology. It maps the positions of the nine Vedic planets across the 12 zodiac signs and houses at the exact moment and location of birth. It is used to understand personality, life events, career, relationships, and spiritual tendencies.

The main difference is the zodiac system: Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac (based on fixed star positions), while Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac (based on the seasons). This means your Vedic sign is often one sign earlier than your Western sign. Vedic astrology also emphasizes the Moon sign and ascendant more heavily, uses a different set of planetary periods (Dashas), and includes the lunar nodes Rahu and Ketu as full planets.

You can start with just your rising sign and still see a personalized view on VedaCharts: horoscopes, an identity card, and today’s planets interpreted through your houses. For the full reading (dasa timing, transits to your natal planets, divisional charts), you’ll want your exact date, time, and place of birth. The ascendant changes every two hours, so a rough time leads to a rough chart.

Yes. Every feature is free for any signed-in account right now: every course, article, library book, horoscope, guide chapter, the full Birth Chart Reading, the dashboard, the Reading Lab, and the PDF report on your saved chart. An optional Supporter tier will arrive soon for people who want to save additional charts and read ad-free.

After completing the core curriculum, you will be able to: read a Rasi birth chart with confidence, understand what each planet, sign, and house represents, assess planetary strength and dignity, interpret how planets interact through aspects, follow transits and Dasha periods to understand timing, and apply a structured 7-step chart reading method to any chart.