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What is a Kundli? Your birth chart in plain language
Twelve houses, twelve signs, nine grahas — and three placements that matter more than everything else. A first reading, without jargon.
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Why two websites give you different Moon signs
It is almost always the ayanamsa. Here is what that number is, why Lahiri is the default, and how to tell if your chart sits on a boundary.
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Rahu Kaal, explained: how the window is actually computed
It is not a fixed clock time. Rahu Kaal is one-eighth of the daylight, and which eighth depends on the weekday. Here is the arithmetic.
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Ashtakoota in 36 points: what each koota actually measures
Eight comparisons, unequal weights, and two that can veto the rest. A walk through the matching score before you read yours.
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Sade Sati without the fear
Seven and a half years of Saturn around your Moon is a schedule, not a sentence. What the three phases ask of you, and how to see where you are.
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Vimshottari Dasha: the clock inside your Kundli
A 120-year cycle that starts from the Moon's nakshatra at birth. How the periods are assigned, why yours started mid-way, and what to look at first.
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Reading a Panchang without a glossary
Tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga and karana — what each one is, how fast it changes, and which ones matter when you are picking a time.
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