Enter your birth date, time and place above and this free Navamsa calculator draws your full D9 chart in the North Indian style. You get the Navamsa sign of your Lagna and of every planet, and any vargottama placement is marked on the chart. The Navamsa, or D9 chart, divides each sign of your birth chart into nine smaller parts, and is the divisional chart most often read alongside the main chart, particularly for marriage and inner strength.
How this calculator works
Positions are computed in your own browser by our ephemeris, using the Lahiri ayanamsa and the mean lunar node for Rahu and Ketu, read from tables calculated from NASA JPL DE440, which agree with it to within a few seconds of arc for births from 1899 to 2075 (outside those years a compact series is used, and the result says so). Your ascendant, needed for the Navamsa Lagna, is computed from the local sidereal time at your birth place, so an accurate birth time matters here as much as it does for the main chart’s Lagna. The time zone in force at your birth place on your birth date, including daylight saving, is applied automatically. The working is done in your browser. Once your email is confirmed, the birth details you enter and the headline of the result are kept with it, so that our emails can fit your chart (see the privacy policy).
Each sign is divided into nine equal parts of three degrees and twenty minutes, and the calculator works out which of these nine parts, and so which Navamsa sign, your Lagna and every planet falls into. The result is drawn as a North Indian style chart, the diamond layout with fixed house positions and the signs marked inside them. Any planet that lands in the same sign in both the main chart and the Navamsa, a placement called vargottama, is marked directly on the chart.
Reading your result
The Navamsa Lagna and the planets around it are traditionally read as a second layer of the same birth chart, refining what the main chart shows rather than replacing it, with particular attention paid to marriage, inner strength and the more settled second half of a planet’s story. A vargottama planet is generally held to be stronger and steadier than the same placement would otherwise be, since it holds its ground across both the D1 and the D9.
Where traditions differ
There is little dispute over how the Navamsa itself is calculated; the nine-part division is fixed and universally used. Where practice genuinely differs is how much weight to give it. Some schools, and a good deal of popular writing, treat the Navamsa as close to a second birth chart in its own right, worth reading independently for marriage and spiritual life. Stricter Parashari practice treats it as one of sixteen divisional charts, each with a specific and limited purpose, meant to refine a reading of the main chart rather than stand alongside it as an equal. Chart style is also a matter of convention rather than substance: this calculator draws a North Indian diamond layout, while South Indian and East Indian styles arrange the same signs and planets in a different visual grid. The underlying positions are identical; only the drawing differs.
What it cannot tell you
This calculator draws the Navamsa chart and marks vargottama placements. It does not interpret what a given Navamsa placement means for you, which depends on the sign, the planets around it and how it relates back to the main chart, and it does not compute any other divisional chart beyond the D9. For the main birth chart the Navamsa is drawn from, and the rest of the divisional and dasha analysis, see the free kundali tool.
Frequently asked questions
↳ What is a Navamsa or D9 chart?
The Navamsa is a divisional chart made by dividing each sign of your birth chart into nine equal parts of three degrees and twenty minutes each. It is the most widely used of the divisional charts, read alongside the main chart for marriage, inner strength and the deeper pattern behind a planet's placement.
↳ What does vargottama mean?
A planet is vargottama when it falls in the same sign in both your main birth chart and your Navamsa chart. It is traditionally considered a sign of strength and steadiness, since the planet's character holds constant across the two charts rather than shifting.
↳ Do I need my exact birth time for the Navamsa chart?
Yes, particularly for the Navamsa Lagna, which depends on your ascendant and is as sensitive to birth time as the main chart's Lagna is. The planets' Navamsa positions are somewhat less sensitive, since each Navamsa division spans three degrees and twenty minutes rather than the much narrower window a house cusp depends on, but an accurate time still matters.
↳ Is the Navamsa a second horoscope?
Traditions differ on this. Some treat it as close to a second chart in its own right, especially for marriage. Stricter Parashari practice treats it as one of sixteen divisional charts with a specific, narrower purpose, meant to refine the main chart rather than stand beside it as an equal reading. Both views are held within the classical tradition.
↳ Why does my Navamsa chart look different on another site?
Probably just the drawing style. This calculator uses the North Indian diamond layout. South Indian and East Indian styles arrange the same signs and the same planetary positions in a different grid. The underlying calculation is identical; only the visual layout changes.
↳ How do I get my Navamsa chart online for free?
Enter your birth date, time and place above. The calculator draws your full D9 chart in the North Indian style, with the Navamsa sign of your Lagna and of every planet, and marks any vargottama planet. It is 100% free. The first time you use a tool on this site we ask for your email and confirm it with a code.
↳ How do I read a Navamsa chart?
Read it beside the main chart, not on its own. Note the Navamsa Lagna, then the D9 sign of each planet and whether it is vargottama, which the chart marks. Tradition gives it most attention for marriage and inner strength. This calculator draws the chart but does not interpret it; the free kundali shows the main chart to compare it with.
↳ How is the Navamsa calculated?
Each sign is divided into nine parts of 3 degrees 20 minutes, and the calculator counts these parts in one continuous run from Aries. That gives the same signs as the classical rule, which starts the count from Aries, Capricorn, Libra or Cancer according to the element of the sign.
↳ Does this calculator show other divisional charts?
No, it draws only the D9. The divisional charts calculator gives the other vargas, and the Dashamsa calculator draws the D10 chart used for career.
For the main chart the Navamsa is calculated from, see the free kundali tool.