D1 Chart Calculator

The D1 chart is the first of the sixteen divisional charts of Vedic astrology, which is where the name comes from. You will also hear it called the Lagna chart, Rasi chart, birth chart or natal chart, and in everyday Indian use it is simply "the Kundli chart". It records the sky at the moment and place of your birth: the sign rising on the eastern horizon, and the sign and house of every planet.

Everything else is read against it. The D9 Navamsa, the Vimshottari dasha and the transits only make sense once you know where the planets sit in the D1. This page draws that chart from your birth details and lists the same placements in a table, so you can check each one yourself.

This is an illustration with made-up planet positions, not anyone's real chart. It shows what your result will look like, and how to read it.

• The 3 in the top diamond is the sign number of the Lagna, so Gemini is rising. Mercury is the Lagna lord.
• The Moon (Mo 3°) is in the 5th house, which holds sign 7, Libra. That makes Libra the Moon sign.
• Venus (Ve 27°) is in the 10th house, sign 12, Pisces. Venus is exalted in Pisces, a point in its favour.
• Rahu and Ketu always sit opposite each other. Here Ra is in the 6th house and Ke in the 12th.
• Sa 12° with a star is Saturn, retrograde, in the 7th house (Sagittarius).

You enter your date, exact time and place of birth, the same details you would use for a free Kundli. The astrology service calculates the Ascendant and the position of each planet, and we place them into the twelve houses of the chart.

The chart is a square divided into diamonds and triangles. In the North Indian style the houses keep fixed positions and the signs rotate around them. The first house is always the top-centre diamond, and the number written in it is your rising sign. The other houses follow anticlockwise from there.

The content is the same in both. Only the drawing differs, so a chart in one style can always be redrawn in the other.

Tradition ties each house to an area of life. The meanings below are traditional associations. The sign, the planets in the house and the running dasha all change how a house is read.

Astrologers also group the houses. The Kendra houses are 1, 4, 7 and 10. The Trikona houses are 1, 5 and 9. The Dusthana houses are 6, 8 and 12, and the Upachaya houses are 3, 6, 10 and 11. Schools differ on the finer points, and no house is good or bad in isolation.

The large number in each house of the chart is the sign in that house. A planet is judged partly by whose sign it stands in, so the ruling planet of each sign matters.

A planet tends to be read as stronger in some signs than in others. It is called exalted in the sign where it is most comfortable, debilitated in the sign opposite that, and in its own sign when it rules the sign. The results table on this page shows the dignity of each planet in your chart. Rahu and Ketu are left out because schools disagree about their signs.

Dignity is one input. A debilitated planet can be helped by other factors in the chart, and an exalted one can be held back, so read it together with house, aspects and dasha.

Each divisional chart (varga) splits every sign into smaller parts and re-draws the chart to look at one area of life more closely. D1 is the base, and the others are read against it.

Your free Kundli includes the D9 Navamsa chart, which is the one most people want after D1.

Each planet in the chart is written as a short name followed by its degree inside the sign. For example, Mo 14° means the Moon at about 14 degrees of the sign that house holds.

A marker is a reason to look closer. It does not settle anything on its own, and a retrograde or combust planet still has to be read with its house, sign and dasha.

• Use a recorded birth time from a hospital paper or birth certificate. A time remembered as "around noon" can change the Lagna.
• Check AM and PM. Swapping them moves the Ascendant roughly six signs away, and the chart will still look believable.
• Choose the exact town from the suggestions. Many place names repeat across districts, and the coordinates go into the calculation.
• If the Lagna degree is very close to the start or end of a sign, even a few minutes of error can change your rising sign. Ask an astrologer about birth time rectification before relying on the houses.
• If another site disagrees, compare the ayanamsa and the house system it uses before deciding which chart is right.

D1 चार्ट, जिसे लग्न कुंडली, राशि कुंडली या जन्म कुंडली भी कहते हैं, जन्म कुंडली का मुख्य चार्ट है। यह बताता है कि जन्म के समय कौन-सा लग्न उदय हो रहा था और ग्रह बारह भावों में कहां थे। बारह भाव हैं: तनु, धन, सहज, सुख, पुत्र, रिपु, कलत्र, आयु, भाग्य, कर्म, लाभ और व्यय।

D1 चार्ट बनाने के लिए जन्म की तारीख, सही समय और जन्म स्थान चाहिए। लग्न लगभग हर दो घंटे में बदल जाता है, इसलिए समय में थोड़ी सी गलती भी भाव और ग्रहों के घर बदल सकती है। ऊपर के फ़ॉर्म में तीनों भरें। कैलकुलेटर उत्तर भारतीय शैली का चार्ट बनाएगा, जिसमें भाव अपनी जगह स्थिर रहते हैं और राशियों के अंक घूमते हैं। पहला भाव हमेशा ऊपर बीच वाला हीरा होता है।

चार्ट के नीचे की तालिका में हर ग्रह की राशि, भाव, अंश, नक्षत्र और बल (उच्च, नीच या स्वराशि) भी दिखता है। नवांश (D9) चार्ट, दशा और गोचर देखने के लिए पूरी कुंडली खोलें। ज्योतिष एक पारंपरिक विद्या है, इसे चिकित्सा या कानूनी निर्णयों का आधार न बनाएं।