Enter your birth date, time and place above and this free calculator finds your Bhrigu Bindu, the point halfway between your Moon and Rahu. It shows the working, the point’s sign, degree and nakshatra, the house it falls in from your rising sign and from your Moon, and then every date over the next ten years on which Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu or Ketu crosses that exact degree, with whether the planet was moving forward or backward at the time.
How it works
- Take the sidereal longitudes of Rahu and the Moon at birth (Lahiri ayanamsa, mean node, from the NASA JPL DE440 tables).
- Measure how far the Moon is past Rahu, counting forward through the signs.
- Add half of that distance to Rahu. The point reached is the Bhrigu Bindu: the midpoint of the arc from Rahu forward to the Moon.
For the transits, the calculator steps through the positions of Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu from today, two days at a time, and wherever a planet passes the Bhrigu Bindu degree it narrows the moment down to the second. A planet that turns retrograde close to the point can cross it three times, and each crossing is listed. The dates are checked against the Swiss Ephemeris and agree to within a few minutes.
Reading the result
Look at the sign and the house the point falls in, from your rising sign and from your Moon: those are the themes the technique ties to it. The point is used for timing: the slow planets passing over it mark times when those themes are worth attention, read together with the dasha running then. A crossing is not a forecast of events, and no crossing is something to fear.
Where traditions differ
The Bhrigu Bindu is a modern technique. It is not in the classical texts such as Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra or Brihat Jataka. P. V. R. Narasimha Rao, writing in 2006, defines it as the midpoint of the Moon and Rahu, and writers on it, among them C. S. Patel, have written on transits over it.
Two points are midpoints of the Moon and Rahu, exactly opposite each other. This page takes the one on the arc from Rahu forward to the Moon, and shows the other as well, so that if your teacher uses it you can read the transits for that degree. This page lists the crossings of the four slow movers only.
What it does not do
It does not interpret a crossing for you or rate it as good or bad. It looks ten years ahead from today, and no further than the end of 2074, where the planet tables end. It needs the birth time, because the Moon moves quickly and the point moves with it; the result shows how far it moves in one hour for your chart.
Frequently asked questions
↳ What is the Bhrigu Bindu?
It is the point halfway between the Moon and Rahu in the birth chart, measured on the arc from Rahu forward to the Moon. It is a modern technique used for timing, by watching the slow planets pass over it.
↳ How is the Bhrigu Bindu calculated?
Find how many degrees the Moon is past Rahu, counting forward through the signs, halve it, and add the half to Rahu's longitude. The calculator shows each step with your numbers.
↳ Is the Bhrigu Bindu in the classical texts?
No. It is not in Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra or the other classical works. It is a later technique, described by modern writers.
↳ Why does another calculator give a point opposite to mine?
The Moon and Rahu have two midpoints, 180 degrees apart. A plain average of the two longitudes gives the opposite point whenever the arc from Rahu forward to the Moon passes 0 degrees of Aries. This page uses the midpoint on the arc from Rahu to the Moon and shows the opposite point too.
↳ Which planets' transits are shown?
Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu, the slow-moving planets, over the next ten years from today.
↳ Why does a planet cross the point three times?
Jupiter and Saturn turn retrograde for some months each year. If that happens near the Bhrigu Bindu, the planet crosses it going forward, again going backward, and once more going forward.