How a reading is made
Three voices, always kept apart: what the old texts say, what the custom has long been, and what we suggest you do now. Every line of a reading tells you which one it is.
The three voices
What the text holds. A line from the classical texts, with the book, chapter and verse beside it. For example: the Moon is the tradition’s name for the mind (Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, Vol. 1, Ch. 3, vv. 12–13).
What custom has settled. Things practised for centuries without a verse behind them — such as each planet keeping its own weekday. We say so rather than dress them up as scripture.
What we suggest now. The modern ritual itself: a small act with a time, a place and an ending. It is our own practice, decoded from the tradition’s logic, and it is always labelled as ours — never passed off as ancient.
How your chart is read
- The sky at your birth. We compute where the seven visible planets stood, in the sidereal zodiac (Lahiri) with whole-sign houses, to within a small fraction of a degree of the standard Swiss Ephemeris.
- Every planet with a say. For the area you choose — career, love, wealth or daily habits — we gather the planets that bear on it: the ruler of its house, planets sitting in that house, the area’s natural significator, and the planet whose sign that significator sits in.
- Weighed by condition. Each is weighed by its sign, its closeness to the Sun, its motion, the planets aspecting it and your rising sign, using rules from Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra and Uttara Kalamrita. Where the text is silent, the rule is ours and is marked as ours in our own records.
- Honest about closeness. When the top two planets are within 15% of each other, we name both instead of pretending one is the answer. An exact tie is broken by the text’s own six-fold strength measure (Shadbala, BPHS Ch. 27).
- You check it. Short statements you mark True or Not me decide whether the planet is under strain or working for you. The chart picks the planet; your answers pick the side.
Tested before it was frozen
The rules were tested one layer at a time on 100,000 birth charts before they were fixed in place. A layer was kept only if it earned its place in the numbers. The rules are now frozen, version 1.0.0, and every future change must pass 100 locked test charts or carry a new version number.
What the testing showed, stated plainly: if your birth time is 15 minutes out, the answer changes completely in about one reading in seven. If it is an hour out, it changes completely in about half of all readings. That is why we ask how sure your time is — and why, without an exact time, a reading is clearly marked as less accurate instead of guessed.
What we will never do
- Predict events, dates or outcomes. We describe tendencies you can check.
- Sell fear. No doom, no curses, no “remedy or ruin”.
- Make medical, psychological or financial claims — about the ritual or anything else.
- Claim a scientific mechanism for an old practice. When a part is symbolic, we say it is symbolic.
- Attribute anything modern to an ancient text.
- Offer consultations. No calls, no chat, no clock running by the minute.
The texts we cite
- Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, Vol. 1 — English translation, commentary and annotation by R. Santhanam.
- Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, Vol. 2 — English translation by Girish Chand Sharma.
- Uttara Kalamrita of Kalidasa — text with translation, notes and illustrations by Prof. P. S. Sastri.
Every reading lists the exact chapters and verses it relies on. See a complete sample reading, sources and all.