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Articles on Vedic astrology, plus the reference material behind every report VedikPatrika produces — the classical facts stated plainly, the disagreements between traditions acknowledged rather than smoothed over, and the cancellation rules that most dosha pages quietly omit.

One thing stated up front. The positions in a chart are astronomy and are exactly as accurate as the ephemeris allows. What is drawn from those positions is interpretation within a traditional system — a long-standing body of practice with its own internal logic, but not an empirically established science. Nothing here is medical, legal or financial advice.

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What is Vedic astrology?

Vedic astrology, or Jyotisha, is the Indian system of reading a birth chart drawn from the sidereal positions of nine grahas across twelve houses and twenty-seven nakshatras. It differs from Western astrology in three main ways: it uses the sidereal zodiac rather than the tropical one, it treats the Moon rather than the Sun as the primary reference, and it has a timing system — Vimshottari dasha — that Western practice has no direct equivalent of.

What a kundli isThe three inputs a birth chart needs, what it actually contains, and what it can and cannot honestly tell you.The nine grahas09Sun through Ketu — sign ownership, exaltation and debilitation degrees, aspects, dasha years and classical remedies.The twelve rashis12The sidereal signs, their lords, elements and qualities, and why your Vedic sign differs from your Western one.The twelve bhavas12What each house of a chart governs, its karaka, and its kendra / trikona / dusthana classification.The 27 nakshatras27Exact spans, Vimshottari lords, deities, symbols, gana, yoni and nadi — the full classical reference, one page each.Vimshottari dashaThe 120-year period system that gives a chart its timeline, and how the Moon's nakshatra fixes it at birth.Doshas05Mangal, Kaal Sarp, Sade Sati and Pitra dosha — including the cancellation rules most readings leave out.Kundli matching08Ashtakoot milan explained koota by koota — varna, vashya, tara, yoni, graha maitri, gana, bhakoot and nadi, and what each one actually checks.Muhurat03Choosing an auspicious time for a wedding, griha pravesh or other event — the panchang factors that make one date better than another.Yogas09What each named combination actually requires — Gajakesari, the Panch Mahapurusha five, Raj yoga, Dhana yoga — with the source behind it and how often it really occurs.Gochar (transits)04How Saturn, Jupiter and the nodes are read as they move — counted from your Moon sign, and why the dasha underneath decides what a transit does.Birth time & chart accuracy03What a kundli can still tell you without an exact birth time, measured over 143 charts — and why the same birth details give different charts on different websites.Varga (divisional charts)05Navamsa, Dashamsa and the rest of the Shodashvarga — how each division is calculated, what it is read for, and how much birth-time accuracy it needs.Ashtakavarga02The bindu scoring system: what the numbers on your chart count, why every chart totals 337, and how they are used to judge a transit.Varshphal01The annual chart, cast for your solar return — Muntha, the Varshesha, and why it is a Tajika technique rather than an extension of the birth chart.Jaimini astrology08Atmakaraka for each planet, the Karakamsha, and how the Ishta Devata is read from the 12th sign after it.Numerology09Mulank and bhagyank from your date of birth, and the Chaldean name number — what each one means and how it is calculated.Glossary31Plain definitions of the Sanskrit terms you will meet in any reading.

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