Jyotish Academy · Level 1

Understand Your Birth Chart

Six lessons, about 41 minutes of reading, taught through your own chart. You need no prior knowledge and no account.

By the end you will be able to generate a chart, identify your Lagna and its ruling planet, find your Moon sign and nakshatra, read either of the two common chart formats, and say clearly what the system claims and what it does not.

1
What a birth chart actually is6 min · Explain what a kundli represents, and why all three birth details are needed.
2
Why your zodiac sign is different here7 min · Explain the sidereal and tropical zodiacs, and why your sign usually shifts back by one.
3
The Lagna — your rising sign7 min · Find your Lagna and its lord, and explain why the Lagna structures the whole chart.
4
Your Moon sign and nakshatra8 min · Find your Moon sign, nakshatra and pada, and explain why Jyotish is Moon-centred.
5
Reading the chart diagram6 min · Locate any house and planet in both the North and South Indian chart formats.
6
What a chart can and cannot tell you7 min · State clearly what astrological reading claims, what it does not, and how to spot exploitation.
Before you start

Every lesson asks you to look at your own chart rather than an example. Generating it once now will make the exercises quicker — it takes under two minutes and needs no account.

Generate my free Kundli

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