How to use AstroVeda.

What to enter, field by field

Everything is calculated from four pieces of information. Only one of them is easy to get wrong in a way that changes the result.

Name

Only a label so you can find the person again. It affects no calculation. A nickname is fine.

Birth date

Entered as dd/mm/yyyy. You can type digits only and the slashes appear by themselves. Note the day comes first: 4 June is 04/06, not 06/04. This is the field people most often transpose.

Birth time

The single most important field. Entered as HH:MM on a 24-hour clock, so 8pm is 20:00. Use a birth certificate or hospital record if you have one. If you only half-remember it, say so with the accuracy setting rather than guessing precisely — the app treats a stated approximation honestly, but it cannot detect a confident wrong answer.

Birth place

The town or city of birth. This supplies latitude, longitude and time zone, including any historical daylight-saving rule in force on that date. For a large city the exact hospital makes no practical difference; the country does.

Why birth time matters more than anything else

The sky moves at very different speeds depending on what you measure. Some parts of your chart are immune to a wrong birth time; others change within minutes.

This is why the app asks how accurate your time is rather than assuming. If you record it as approximate, the finest divisional charts are left out of your report entirely. That is deliberate: a reading built on a guessed minute would look just as confident as a real one, and would be worthless.

If you do not know your birth time at all, the chart is still worth running. Your Moon sign, nakshatra, planetary signs and dasha sequence remain valid, and those carry a great deal in Vedic practice. The houses, the ascendant and the fine divisionals should be treated as provisional.

The chart page, tab by tab

Overview

The headline facts — ascendant, Sun, Moon, nakshatra, current dasha and how far your birth time can be relied on. Hover any of them for an explanation.

Planets

Every planet with its sign, house, degree, nakshatra and condition. State shows whether a planet is retrograde or combust. Each row opens a short reading.

Houses

The twelve houses with their sign, ruling planet and any planets sitting in them.

Dashas

The Vimshottari timeline — which planetary period you are in now and what follows. This is the timing side of the system.

Report

The full written reading. Press Build report to generate it.

Interpretation

The same material grouped by topic rather than as a document — useful for looking something specific up.

Glossary

Every Vedic term used anywhere in the app, defined in plain language and filterable as you type.

Reading the chart diagram

The default view is the North Indian diamond. Unlike a western wheel, the houses stay in fixed positions and the signs move. House 1 is always the top-centre diamond, and the rest run anticlockwise. The number is the house, the letter code is the sign occupying it, and Asc marks your ascendant.

Click anywhere on a chart to enlarge it. Hover any planet for its sign, degree and nakshatra. Inside the enlarged view, clicking a house or planet opens what it means. The second chart is the Navamsa (D9), the most important divisional chart.

How the report is organised

The written reading is assembled into chapters, in this order:

1. Personality and inner nature — core character, emotions, mind, love, drive, growth, life lessons and the karmic axis.
2. The twelve houses — the theme of each house, and where each house's ruling planet sits.
3. Strengths and combinations — chart strengths, named yogas, planets sitting together, and the aspects planets cast.
4. Divisional charts — up to fifteen zoomed-in charts covering marriage, career, children, home, wealth, learning, spiritual practice and more.
5. Timing — the dasha period you are in, and current transits.

Every technical section carries a collapsed What is this? note explaining what it is and where it comes from. Nothing in the report is generic filler: each paragraph appears because a specific placement in your chart triggered it.

Common questions

My Sun sign is not the one I know. Is it wrong?

No — this is expected. Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, measured against the fixed stars, while most western astrology uses the tropical zodiac tied to the seasons. The two have drifted about 24° apart, so roughly four out of five people land in the previous sign here. Learn explains why in detail.

Some report sections are missing. Is something broken?

Almost certainly not. Sections appear only when your chart actually triggers them — you will not see a conjunction section if no two planets share a house. The three finest divisional charts are also withheld when your recorded birth time is not precise enough. Both are deliberate.

My chart looks different from another Vedic site.

Usually one of three things: a different ayanamsha (the sidereal offset), a different house system, or a different birth time or time zone. AstroVeda uses whole-sign houses, where each house is exactly one sign — the oldest and most common approach in Vedic practice, though not the only one.

What is the difference between the free and paid reading?

Both read the same chart. The paid reading draws on a much larger body of interpretation, adds the divisional charts, aspects, conjunctions, dignity and house-ruler analysis, and writes at greater length.

Does the reading predict what will happen to me?

No, and it is written not to. Difficult placements are described as tendencies and growth edges with the strengths that come with them, not as fixed outcomes. Where the tradition names something as an affliction, we say what it inclines toward and what helps — not what is fated.

Can I change the language?

Yes — English, Slovenian and Polish, from the switcher in the header. The chart, report, glossary, this page and Learn are all translated.