D16 Shodasamsa Chart Calculator

Shodasamsa, the D16 chart, covers vehicles, comforts and the everyday luxuries of life. It is the chart people check when they are curious about the car they will drive or how comfortable their material life is going to be.

It is also called the Kalamsa in some books. Because the parts are small, a birth time that is only roughly right will often produce the wrong D16 Ascendant. Treat the reading as indicative.

Read it with the D1 birth chart beside it. If you also want the marriage and strength chart, open the D9 Navamsa.

Each sign is divided into sixteen parts of 1°52′30″. For a movable sign the count starts at Aries, for a fixed sign at Leo and for a dual sign at Sagittarius.

Your birth details go to the same astrology service that powers the free Kundli. The page reads the divisional Ascendant, each planet’s sign, house, degree and part from the response and draws them with the Kundli chart renderer.

This illustration contains invented positions to show the chart layout.

• The top diamond is the first house. The 3 in it means Gemini is the divisional Ascendant.
• Houses follow anticlockwise from there, each with the next sign number.
• Each label is a short planet name and its degree inside that sign. A star marks a retrograde planet.
• In your own D16 chart the signs and houses come from the divisional positions, so they will rarely match your D1.

The houses keep their usual meanings. What changes is which planets fall in them, and that is what makes the chart specific to vehicles and comforts. Use the table to find the house you want, then read the planets in it.

Once the chart is drawn, work through it in this order. Each point below is a place astrologers look first for vehicles and comforts.

• Do not use D16 to judge road safety or to decide when to buy a car. Use the real facts for those decisions.
• D16 is one of the less used charts. Give it a supporting role alongside D1 and D4.
• Use a birth time from a certificate or hospital record, check AM and PM, and choose your town from the suggestions so the coordinates are right.
• If another website shows a different chart, compare the ayanamsa and the division rule it uses. This calculator uses the sidereal zodiac with the Lahiri ayanamsa.

The smaller the part, the faster the divisional Ascendant moves. The column on the right shows roughly how long it takes the Ascendant of each chart to change sign. The figures are averages, because the real speed varies with your latitude and the sign that is rising.

If you are not sure of your birth time, start with D1 and D9, which are the most forgiving, and ask an astrologer about rectification before you rely on D40, D45 or D60.

D16 चार्ट को षोडशांश कहते हैं और इसे वाहन, सुख-सुविधाओं और भौतिक आराम के लिए देखा जाता है। हर राशि के सोलह भाग होते हैं। चर राशि में गिनती मेष से, स्थिर राशि में सिंह से और द्विस्वभाव राशि में धनु से शुरू होती है। शुक्र और चतुर्थ भाव यहां मुख्य हैं।

चार्ट बनाने के लिए जन्म की तारीख, सही समय और जन्म स्थान भरें। ज्योतिष एक पारंपरिक विद्या है, इसे चिकित्सा, कानूनी या वित्तीय निर्णयों का आधार न बनाएं।