Vedic astrology, explained plainly
Most pages about doshas exist to make you worried enough to buy something. These exist to tell you what the rule actually is, which classical exceptions apply, and where the sources genuinely disagree. Every rule described here is the rule our calculator uses.
Mangal dosha — what it means, and when it does not apply
→Which houses make a chart manglik, the cancellations that are usually left out, and why it is milder than it sounds.
Guna milan — how the 36 points actually work
→The eight kootas, their weights, and why a total hides the only thing worth knowing about it.
Nadi dosha — the heaviest koota, and the exceptions to it
→Why the same nadi costs 8 of 36 points, and the two standard exceptions that most often apply.
Bhakoot dosha — the distance between two moon signs
→The three Moon-sign distances that cost 7 points, and when the objection is set aside.
Nakshatras — the 27 lunar mansions, and why yours matters more than your sign
→The 27 divisions the Moon moves through, and the four things your birth star decides.
Vimshottari dasha — the 120-year clock in your chart
→The 120-year sequence of planetary periods, and why your Moon decides where you enter it.
Why your Vedic sign is different from your western one
→Precession, the sidereal zodiac, and the roughly 24° that makes your Vedic sign differ.
Lagna — the ascendant, and why birth time matters so much
→The sign rising at your birth, why it changes every two hours, and what survives an unknown birth time.
Sade sati — when it starts, when it ends, and what it is not
→Saturn's seven-and-a-half-year pass around the Moon — the three phases, and why your dates are not the same as anyone else's.
Manglik hoon — to kya shaadi nahi hogi?
→The question people actually ask at one in the morning, answered without selling anything.
Kaal sarp dosha — and why we do not flag it
→The one dosha we deliberately do not report — because the classical texts do not contain it.
Sade sati ke upay — what actually changes the date, and what does not
→The remedy question, answered by the one thing nobody selling one will tell you: the end date is fixed.
Kitne gun milne chahiye? — the 36-point score, and what it hides
→The number everyone asks for, and the reason it is the wrong thing to look at.
Janam samay pata nahi — what a kundli can still tell you
→Half the country does not have an exact birth time. Here is what still works.