Free Vedic Astrology You Can Trust

Every chart, date and degree on this site is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris - the astronomical library used by professional astrology software - using the sidereal zodiac and the Lahiri ayanamsa followed by Indian panchangs. Nothing in the free tools is estimated or generated by AI.

• Planet positions accurate to a fraction of an arc-second for modern dates.
• Historical timezones handled for each birth place.
• Sade sati dates from Saturn's real transits, including retrograde re-entries.
• Available in English, हिन्दी and मराठी - each written for its own readers, not machine-translated.

The site keeps two layers strictly apart. The calculation layer is the Swiss Ephemeris doing astronomy: lagna, planets, nakshatras, dasha dates, doshas and transits. The interpretation layer - the paid reports, the AI astrologer and the horoscope columns - only ever explains those calculated facts; it is never allowed to work out a position or a date by itself.

Here's the thing that trips up almost everyone. Your rashi in Indian astrology is your Moon sign, not your Sun sign, and Indian horoscope columns are written for it. The sign you have been calling yours from a Western magazine is usually the Sun sign, and in the sidereal zodiac it is often one sign earlier anyway.

The ascendant, or lagna, is a third thing again: the sign that was rising on the eastern horizon at the moment you were born. It changes roughly every two hours, which is why two people born on the same day in the same city can have completely different charts. Your lagna decides the house layout of your whole chart, so it matters more than either of the other two for anything personal.

If you have never checked which is which, the free birth chart shows all three side by side in a few seconds, and it takes your date, time and city rather than an email address.

A four minute difference in recorded birth time can move the Moon across a nakshatra pada boundary, and the pada is what sets the starting point of your entire dasha sequence. Half an hour can move the lagna into the next sign.

This is the single place where manual calculation goes wrong most often: a birth time rounded to the nearest half hour, an ayanamsa applied from the wrong year, a digit copied across a page. The Swiss Ephemeris removes that whole class of error, because the positions come from the same astronomical model observatories use rather than from a printed table and arithmetic by hand.

If your birth time is genuinely uncertain, the chart still tells you a great deal. Your Moon sign, nakshatra and dasha dates are usually safe; the lagna and the house placements are the parts to hold loosely, and the free chart flags it when a birth falls close to a boundary.