The Moon
The Moon changes sign about every 2¼ days, so its house from your rashi (Chandra gochar) sets the tone of the day.
Methodology · Horoscope
How we compute Rashifal
Our horoscope is transit-based (gochar), read by moon sign (rashi). The daily reading follows the Moon, the monthly follows the Sun, and the yearly follows the slow planets — every position computed from the true sidereal panchang, not written by hand.
What it is
A transit reading, by your moon sign
Rashifal (rāśi-phala — “the fruit of the sign”) is read by your moon sign (janma rashi), the Vedic way, not by the Western sun sign. Where you sit is fixed; what moves is the sky. So the reading is a gochar (transit) reading: it asks where the planets are travelling relative to your rashi right now.
The key idea is the house-from-rashi. Counting from your sign as the 1st, a transiting planet falls in one of twelve houses, and each house carries a settled meaning in jyotisha. That single count — planet, and how many signs it stands from you — is what themes the reading.
Every position we count is a true sidereal (Lahiri) Drik-Ganita longitude — the same ephemeris that fixes the panchang. The astronomy is computed to the arc-second; only the interpretation is written.
Three cadences, three timekeepers — each reads the body whose pace matches the horizon.
The Sun
The Sun spends roughly a month in each sign (sankranti to sankranti), so its house from your rashi (Surya gochar) themes the month.
The slow planets
Jupiter, Saturn and the Rahu-Ketu axis move over months to years, so their houses — and Sade Sati — shape the year.
Daily
The daily reading — Chandra gochar
The Moon is the fastest body and the karaka of the mind, so the day-to-day reading follows it.
1
Fix the Moon’s sign
From the day’s sidereal Moon longitude we take which rashi the Moon occupies at the India-canonical daybreak reference.
2
Count its house from your rashi
The Moon’s sign, counted from your janma rashi as the 1st, gives its house (1–12) — the Chandra gochar for you that day.
3
Read the house
Each house has a settled theme — the 11th brings gains, the 8th is the caution day (Chandrashtama), and so on. That theme drives the day’s prediction.
Two well-known layers fall straight out of this count. Chandrabala — the Moon’s strength from your sign — is favourable in the 1st, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 10th and 11th houses. And Chandrashtama, the classic day of caution, is simply the Moon standing in the 8th from your rashi.
Why the daily reading is the same worldwide
The Moon’s sign is a global fact of the sky — it does not depend on your city (unlike sunrise or Rahu Kalam). So a rashi’s daily reading is identical everywhere, and we compute it once per day.
Monthly
The monthly reading — Surya gochar
The Sun sets the season of the month, so the monthly reading follows its transit.
The Sun enters a new sign once a month at the sankranti, and holds it for the whole month. We take the Sun’s sign for the month, count its house from your rashi (the Surya gochar), and read that house’s meaning — the 10th lifts career and standing, the 2nd turns to money and family, the 12th to rest and retreat.
The Sun is the karaka of vitality, status and the self, so its house colours the month’s larger currents where the Moon coloured the day’s mood.
Yearly
The yearly reading — the slow planets
A year is shaped by the bodies that move slowly enough to define a season of life: Jupiter, Saturn and the lunar nodes.
For the year we compute each slow planet’s sign and house from your rashi, and the dates it changes sign.
Jupiter
Jupiter spends about a year per sign. The house it transits from your rashi is the year’s chief benefic theme — growth, wisdom, fortune.
Saturn
We track Saturn over the 12th, 1st and 2nd from your Moon — the 7½-year Sade Sati — and the 4th/8th Dhaiya (Ashtama / Ardha-Ashtama), with exact start and end dates.
The nodes
The Rahu-Ketu axis moves about 1½ years per sign; its houses from your rashi mark where the year pushes and where it lets go.
Sade Sati is the most-asked-about of these, and it is fully computed: we walk Saturn’s sidereal sign transits, classify each by its house from your Moon, and report the phase — Rising (12th), Peak (1st) or Setting (2nd) — with dates. Nothing here is guessed.
Because these bodies move so slowly, the yearly reading is the steadiest of the three, and the same computed transits let us name specific windows within the year rather than a vague forecast.
When a slow planet turns retrograde and crosses back over a sign boundary — as Jupiter and Saturn often do within a single year — we read the year by the sign each planet holds for the majority of its months, and call out the brief revisit as a preview rather than the headline. The lunar nodes (Rahu-Ketu) are read as the traditional mean nodes.
From calculation to reading
How the calculation becomes your reading
For every cadence the pipeline is the same: compute the transit state (which house each timekeeper occupies from your rashi, plus Sade Sati for the year), then express it in words against that state. The astronomy is deterministic and reproducible; the language is written to fit the computed houses, and chosen consistently so the same day, month or year always reads the same for a given rashi.
A horoscope is a reflective aid, not a forecast of certainties. We keep the astronomy honest and the language constructive — the value is in reading the sky’s pattern relative to your sign, and choosing how to meet it.
Our authorities
The texts we stand on
The rules on this page are drawn from the standard muhurta and dharma-nirnaya literature, computed on a modern astronomical foundation.
Brihat Samhita
Varahamihira — the classical treatment of gr(planetary) gochar (transit).
Phaladeepika
Mantreswara — transit results by house from the Moon.
Drik-Ganita panchang
The sidereal (Lahiri) Sun, Moon and planet longitudes that fix every position we read.
Computation: true positions from the Swiss Ephemeris, sidereal with the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa — the standard adopted by the Indian Calendar Reform Committee for the Rashtriya Panchang.
Keep exploring
More from the methodology
Kal Sarpa Dosha
How Kal Sarpa Dosha is determined
All seven planets hemmed within the Rahu–Ketu arc — the test, and the twelve named types.
Graha Drishti
How planetary aspects are calculated
The 7th-house aspect every planet casts, plus the special aspects of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the nodes.
Transits (Gochar)
How planetary transits are calculated
Sign and nakshatra ingress and retrograde stations, refined to about one-minute precision.
Sade Sati
How Sade Sati is calculated
Saturn’s 7½-year transit over the 12th, 1st and 2nd from the natal Moon — timed by phase.
Planetary Friendships
How planetary friendships are calculated
Natural, temporal and the five-fold Panchadha Maitri — how each planet-pair is graded.
Kundali
How the Kundali is computed
The sidereal birth chart — nine grahas, the ascendant and twelve houses, with the Lahiri ayanamsa.
Read your Rashifal
Today, this month and this year for all twelve rashis.
FAQ
How we compute Rashifal — Frequently Asked Questions
By moon sign (janma rashi), following the Vedic system. If you know your Vedic moon sign, use that; it is the sign the reading is counted from.
From the Moon’s transit. We take the sign the Moon occupies that day and count its house from your rashi (Chandra gochar); the meaning of that house — including Chandrabala and the 8th-house Chandrashtama — drives the daily reading.
The monthly follows the Sun’s sign for the month (Surya gochar), counted as a house from your rashi. The yearly follows the slow planets — Jupiter, Saturn (including Sade Sati and Dhaiya) and the Rahu-Ketu axis — and their houses from your rashi across the year.
No. Unlike sunrise or Rahu Kalam, a planet’s sign is the same everywhere on Earth, so a rashi’s Rashifal is identical worldwide and depends only on the date.
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