Enter your name, date of birth, birth time and birth place, and your Janam Kundali appears in a few seconds. It is free, you don't need an account, and the finished chart can be saved as a PDF. Below the tool you'll find what each part of the chart means and how to start reading it yourself.
- You need: date, time and place of birth, plus a name and boy or girl for the report.
- You get: the Lagna chart (D1), the Navamsa chart (D9), planet positions with nakshatra, a house-by-house table and the panchang of your birth day.
- Cost: nothing. The PDF download is free too.
How to make a Janam Kundali from your date of birth
- Type the name you want printed on the chart. It has no effect on the calculation.
- Pick your date of birth from the calendar.
- Enter the birth time as written on the birth certificate or hospital record.
- Start typing your birth town and choose it from the list. This sets the latitude, longitude and time zone.
- Choose boy or girl and press the button. The chart opens below the form.
Birth time matters more than most people expect. The lagna, the rashi rising in the east at the moment of birth, changes roughly every two hours. If you were born close to one of those changes, a time that is off by 30 or 40 minutes can move the lagna into the next rashi.
Quick tip: Many families and astrologers take the baby's first cry as the moment of birth, while some traditions use the cutting of the cord. If relatives remember different times, make a chart for each one and compare the lagna.
What your kundali shows
The result has five parts, and each answers a different question.
| Part | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Lagna chart (D1) | The main birth chart. Which rashi was rising, and where the nine grahas sat across the 12 houses. |
| Navamsa chart (D9) | Each rashi split into nine parts of 3°20′. Traditionally read for marriage and for the real strength of a planet. |
| Graha details | Degree of each planet and the lagna, its nakshatra and pada, nakshatra lord, the house it sits in and the houses it rules. |
| Bhava details | The 12 houses, the lord of each, the planets sitting in it and the planets aspecting it. |
| Birth panchang | Tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana, sunrise, sunset, and the Vikram and Shaka samvat year for your birth date. |
In the chart drawing, the top middle box is always the first house, your lagna. The number inside each box is the rashi number (1 is Mesh, 12 is Meen), and the houses count anticlockwise from the top. This is the North Indian layout. The birth panchang uses the same five limbs you see in the daily panchang, worked out for the day you were born.
How to read your Janam Kundali
Go in this order: lagna first, then the Moon's rashi and nakshatra, then the houses, then the dasha. Beginners often jump straight to one planet and get lost. The lagna sets the frame for everything else, so start there.
Lagna: the rising sign
The lagna is the rashi rising on the eastern horizon at the moment of birth, and it becomes the first house. In Parashari jyotish it describes the body, temperament and general direction of life. Its ruling planet, the lagnesh, is the first planet to look up in the graha table. To check only your rising sign, use the Janma Lagna calculator.
Rashi and nakshatra: where the Moon was
In Vedic astrology your rashi is the sign the Moon was in at birth, not the Sun sign of Western horoscopes. Daily and yearly rashifal follow this Moon sign. The Moon's nakshatra is one of 27 star segments, each 13°20′ wide and split into four padas, and the pada gives the traditional first syllable for a baby's name.
If those two are all you need, the Janam Rashi calculator and the Birth Star calculator give them directly.
The 12 bhavas (houses)
Each house covers one area of life. A planet sitting in a house colours that area, and the house lord's own placement shows where the area draws its support from. Here is the classical list in short form.
| House | Name | Main areas |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tanu | Self, body, temperament |
| 2 | Dhana | Money, family, speech |
| 3 | Sahaja | Siblings, courage, short trips |
| 4 | Sukha | Mother, home, property, peace of mind |
| 5 | Putra | Children, studies, intelligence |
| 6 | Ripu | Debts, illness, rivals, daily work |
| 7 | Kalatra | Spouse, partnerships |
| 8 | Ayu | Longevity, sudden events, hidden matters |
| 9 | Bhagya | Father, fortune, dharma, teachers |
| 10 | Karma | Career, status, actions |
| 11 | Labha | Income, gains, elder siblings |
| 12 | Vyaya | Expenses, foreign lands, moksha |
Houses 1, 4, 7 and 10 are the kendras, and 1, 5 and 9 the trikonas. Planets placed there are generally read as stronger, which is why astrologers look at them first.
Dasha: whose period is running
Vimshottari dasha divides a 120-year cycle among the nine grahas, as set out in Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra. Your first dasha belongs to the lord of the Moon's nakshatra. You can read it in the graha table, in the Moon's row under nakshatra lord. This chart doesn't list dasha dates yet, so use the table below for the order.
| Graha | Years | First dasha if the Moon is in |
|---|---|---|
| Ketu | 7 | Ashwini, Magha, Mula |
| Shukra (Venus) | 20 | Bharani, Purva Phalguni, Purva Ashadha |
| Surya (Sun) | 6 | Krittika, Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha |
| Chandra (Moon) | 10 | Rohini, Hasta, Shravana |
| Mangal (Mars) | 7 | Mrigashira, Chitra, Dhanishta |
| Rahu | 18 | Ardra, Swati, Shatabhisha |
| Guru (Jupiter) | 16 | Punarvasu, Vishakha, Purva Bhadrapada |
| Shani (Saturn) | 19 | Pushya, Anuradha, Uttara Bhadrapada |
| Budh (Mercury) | 17 | Ashlesha, Jyeshtha, Revati |
The first dasha is usually partial. If the Moon had already crossed half its nakshatra at birth, only about half of that planet's years remain. After that the periods run in the order above.
No exact birth time? What still works
The form needs a time, so if you don't know yours, enter your best estimate and read the result in layers. Some parts of a chart move slowly enough to stay correct. Others change within the hour.
| Part of the chart | Changes roughly every | Reliable without exact time? |
|---|---|---|
| Lagna and houses | 2 hours | No |
| Moon's nakshatra | 1 day | Usually, unless the Moon was near a boundary |
| Moon rashi | 2 to 2.5 days | Usually |
| Sun's rashi | 1 month | Yes |
| Jupiter and Saturn rashi | 1 year and 2.5 years | Yes |
Here is a simple test. Make one chart for 12:05 AM and another for 11:55 PM on the same date. Anything that matches in both you can trust, and anything that changes depends on the real time. Some astrologers work out an unknown time from major life events, a process called birth time rectification, and that takes a skilled person.
Did you know? You'll often read that a kundali can't be made without a birth time. It can. Only the lagna-based parts become unreliable. Name letters, rashifal and much of guna matching run on the Moon's rashi and nakshatra, which usually come out right from the date alone.
Why two websites can show different charts
If your chart here doesn't match one made elsewhere, the reason is usually one of these four settings.
- Ayanamsa. Vedic charts subtract the precession correction, about 24° today, from Western positions. Lahiri, Raman and KP values differ by a fraction of a degree up to about 1.5°, enough to change the pada of a planet near a boundary.
- House system. Some software uses unequal houses such as Placidus or Sripati, which can push a planet into the next house.
- Time zone. India ran on war time, one hour ahead of standard time, from 1942 to 1945. A wrong time zone shifts everything that depends on the clock.
- Calculation base. Many families in Tamil Nadu and Kerala use the Vakya panchangam, while this tool uses modern ephemeris positions. Small differences in degrees follow.
How Shubh Panchang calculates your chart
Planet positions come from the Swiss Ephemeris, the high-precision astronomical library behind most astrology software. We apply the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa, the one used by the Indian government's Rashtriya Panchang. Houses are whole-sign, so one rashi equals one house, as in Parashari practice.
Times are worked out from the latitude, longitude and time zone of the birth place you pick. That is why choosing the right town matters.
Free Kundali and predictions (bhavishya)
The chart gives you the planetary positions that every prediction is built on. It doesn't print a written forecast. Saying something about career, marriage or money means reading a house, its lord and the running dasha together, and that is where an experienced astrologer helps.
For specific questions, these tools read the same birth details. Mangal Dosh checks the Mars placement families look at before marriage. Kaal Sarp Dosh checks whether all planets sit between Rahu and Ketu, and Shani Sade Sati tracks Saturn's 7½-year transit over your Moon sign. Before a wedding most families also run Kundali Matching, which scores guna milan out of 36. The Gemstone calculator suggests a ratna from the same chart. Treat any remedy as a traditional option, not a requirement.
Important: A kundali describes tendencies as understood in jyotish tradition. For health, money or legal decisions, speak to a qualified professional as well.
Janam Patrika, Kundli, Janmakshar: one chart, many names
Janam Kundali, janam patrika, janmapatri, kundli, the Gujarati janmakshar, jathagam in Tamil and jatakam in Telugu all mean the same thing: a map of the sky at your birth. Hand-written patrikas from a family priest often add extra tables, but the core chart holds the same information. This one is available in English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu.