D60 Shashtiamsa Chart Calculator

Shashtiamsa, the D60 chart, is the finest of the classical divisional charts. Parashara gives it a special place, and many astrologers describe it as the chart of past karma. It is used to refine every other reading, and some teachers treat it as the final check on the whole horoscope.

The cost of that precision is that it needs a very accurate birth time. Each part is only 30 minutes of arc, which means the Ascendant of D60 can change about every two minutes. If your time is off by even a few minutes, the chart can look completely different. Most astrologers insist on birth time rectification before using it.

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 sixty parts of 30′, and the count starts from the sign itself. Each part has a name in Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, such as Ghora, Rakshasa and Deva, and each is traditionally read as benefic or malefic.

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 D60 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 past karma and root destiny. 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 past karma and root destiny.

• Do not rely on D60 unless the birth time is confirmed to the minute. A guessed time gives a chart that looks precise and is not.
• Do not read D60 as a story of past lives. The tradition speaks of karma in general terms, and any specific claim goes beyond what the chart can support.
• 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.

D60 चार्ट को षष्ट्यंश कहते हैं। इसे पूर्व कर्म और पूरी कुंडली की सबसे बारीक जांच के लिए देखा जाता है। हर राशि के साठ भाग होते हैं और हर भाग का एक नाम होता है, जैसे घोर, राक्षस और देव। इसका लग्न लगभग हर दो मिनट में बदल सकता है, इसलिए बिल्कुल सही जन्म समय जरूरी है।

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।