What you get on the page
A kundali, also called a janma kundali or janam patri, is the chart of the sky at the moment and place of a birth. This tool draws it as a single sheet made to be printed on A4 paper: the Rashi chart (D1) beside the Navamsa chart (D9), a table with the position of every planet, and your Vimshottari dasha with dates. You can choose the North Indian diamond or the South Indian square, whichever you were brought up reading.
The heading carries the name you type (leave it blank if you prefer), the birth date, time and place, and the three placements most people look at first: the Lagna (rising sign), the Moon sign and the Sun sign. Press the print button and the rest of the website steps out of the way, so the paper copy holds the chart and nothing else. In the print window you can also choose “Save as PDF” to keep a digital copy.
How the chart is worked out
You give the date, time and place of birth. The tool converts the local time to universal time, using the time zone and daylight saving that applied at that place on that date. It then reads each planet from the Swiss Ephemeris tables that sit on this site and expresses the longitude in the sidereal zodiac with the Lahiri ayanamsa, the standard used in India. Rahu and Ketu are the mean node. The Lagna comes from the local sidereal time at the birth place.
Houses are whole signs: the sign that rises is the first house, the next sign is the second, and so on. This is the oldest Indian method and the one most Jyotishis use for the main chart. Other house systems exist, and a chart cast with one of them can place a planet in a different house, so if a reading elsewhere disagrees with this page, check the house system first.
Reading the two charts
The Rashi chart is the main picture. The house with the Lagna is the self; the other houses stand for the areas of life that the tradition assigns to them, such as money in the second, home in the fourth and work in the tenth. A planet is read by its sign, its house and its nakshatra, which are all in the table.
The Navamsa divides every sign into nine parts of 3 degrees 20 minutes. It is read alongside the Rashi chart, mainly for marriage and for the real strength of each planet. A planet that falls in the same sign in both charts is called vargottama, and the table marks it. For one chart at a time with its own explanation, see the Navamsa calculator; for the other divisional charts, use the divisional charts tool.
The planet table
For each planet the table gives the sign, the degree and minute inside the sign, the nakshatra with its pada (quarter), the house counted from the Lagna, and the sign in the Navamsa. A planet that appears to move backwards against the stars is marked retrograde. Rahu and Ketu always move backwards in the mean-node reckoning, so the table does not mark them separately. The nakshatra of the Moon at birth is the one that sets the start of the dasha, and you can look at it more closely in the Nakshatra calculator.
The dasha on the sheet
The Vimshottari dasha is the best known system of timing in Vedic astrology: a cycle of nine planetary periods that adds up to 120 years. The sheet shows which Mahadasha, Antardasha and Pratyantardasha are running today and then lists every Mahadasha of your life with its dates and ages. These come from the same engine as the Mahadasha calculator, so the two always agree. If you want every sub-period of your whole life as a printable timeline, use the Vimshottari dasha timeline.
Why the birth time matters
The Lagna changes sign about every two hours and passes through each degree in a few minutes. A birth time that is half an hour out can change the Lagna, and with it every house in the chart. The Navamsa Lagna changes even faster. The planets themselves hardly move in that time, so their signs are steady, but the Moon moves about half a degree an hour and can change the dasha balance by months. If your time of birth is uncertain, treat the houses as approximate and lean on the signs.
What it does not do
This page makes a chart, not a prediction. It does not say what will happen in your life, and it is not a substitute for a trained astrologer’s reading or for professional advice of any kind. Many people simply like to hold their chart on paper, and that is a perfectly good use for it.
Frequently asked questions
↳ Is this kundali free to print?
Yes. Enter your birth details, press the button, then print the page or save it as a PDF from the print window. The first time you use any tool here we ask you to confirm your email once.
↳ Which ayanamsa and house system does it use?
The Lahiri ayanamsa, the standard in India, and whole-sign houses counted from the rising sign. The mean node is used for Rahu and Ketu. Software that uses another ayanamsa or house system can show slightly different results.
↳ Why does the Lagna on my family chart differ from this one?
Usually because of the birth time, which may have been written down to the nearest hour, or because the place or time zone differs. The Lagna changes sign roughly every two hours, so even a small error in time can move it.
↳ Can I choose a South Indian chart?
Yes. Use the chart style menu above the birth details. In the South Indian style the signs keep fixed boxes and a diagonal line in the corner marks the Lagna sign.
↳ Is my birth data stored?
No. The chart is worked out in your browser and the details you enter are not sent to us. Only the place search asks OpenStreetMap for the coordinates of the town you type.