Your Birth Chart & Periods
The personal side of the panchangam, in plain words: your lagna, rasi and birth star, your dasha periods, Saturn's and Jupiter's transits, chandrashtamam and the yogas in a chart.
Lagna, Rasi and Birth Star: The Three Basics of Your Birth Chart
What each of the three means. How each is found from your birth time and place.
Dasha and Bhukti: How the Vimshottari Periods Work
What a dasha is. How your birth star sets the order. How to read 'Mahadasha / Bhukti / Pratyantar'.
Sade Sati and Ashtama Shani: When Saturn Passes Your Moon Sign
What these Saturn periods are. How long each one lasts. Why they come back about every 30 years.
Guru Peyarchi: Jupiter's Move Each Year, Counted from Your Moon Sign
What Guru peyarchi is. Why it comes about once a year. How its house from your rasi is read.
Chandrashtamam: When the Moon Is 8th from Your Rasi
What chandrashtamam is. How long it lasts. How often it comes. What tradition suggests.
Yogas in a Birth Chart: Planet Patterns with Names
What a yoga in a birth chart is. A few well-known ones. How it differs from the day's yoga in the panchangam.
Your City’s Panchangam, Every Day
Many printed calendars are computed for one town. Nava Panchangam computes sunrise, sunset and the windows that depend on them, such as Rahu Kalam, for your city, with a choice of Vakya or Drik; a tithi’s ending instant is the same everywhere.
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