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How to Read Your Jyotish Chart~ In Five Easy Steps

7/23/2015

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Your Jyotish chart is a unique karmic map that shares the wisdom of life- past, present and future.

Your chart holds the key to understanding who you are on a mental, emotional, physical and spiritual body level, while also sharing intimate secrets about your healing and transformation process.

Though jyotish is a Vedic science that takes hours, years and even life times to fully explore and understand, there are some very basic steps for starting to peel back the layers of your own jyotish chart.

I share more elaborate and specific details in my weekly Jyotish Basics Classes, but here are five simple steps to get you started right now.

1) Identify Your Rising Sign.

Using the North Indian Style diagram above, notice where the first house is in your own chart. This is also where your rising sign is located. The small number in the first house indicates your rising sign. What is your rising sign?

Aries is a number 1.
Taurus is a number 2.
Gemini is a number 3.
Cancer is a number 4.
Leo is a number 5.
Virgo is a number 6.
Libra is a number 7.
Scorpio is a number 8.
Sagittarius is a number 9.
Capricorn is a number 10.
Aquarius is a number 11.
Pisces is a number 12.


2) Finding Your Sun and Moon.

Now count counter-clockwise around the chart, locating the first through the 12th houses. What houses are your Sun and Moon in?

SU is the abbreviation used for Sun. The Sanskrit abbreviation is SY for Surya.
MO is the abbreviation for the Moon. The Sanskrit abbreviation is CH for Chandra.


3) What Are Your Sun and Moon Signs?


Now that you have identified the houses that your Sun and Moon are in, identify what signs they are in. Remember the numbers in each house indicate the signs. What is your Sun sign? What is your Moon sign?

4) Identify All Nine Planets in Your Chart.


Use the common abbreviations below to identify the nine planets. What houses are they in?

Common Abbreviations:
AS = ascendent, your 1st house. MO = Moon. SU = Sun. SA = Saturn. ME = Mercury. MA = Mars. VE = Venus. JP = Jupiter. Ra = Rahu. Ke = Ketu.

5) What Are Your Planetary Signs?

Once you identify the planets and what houses they sit in, the next step is to determine what signs each of the nine planet is placed in. Where do your Saturn, Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Rahu and Ketu sit in your own chart?

Remember that this process takes time- so go slow and remember to breathe! At first, just stick to the identification process. Meaning making comes next!

Truth be told, understanding the basic principles of reading a jyotish chart is very different than being able to find meaning in the many elaborate pieces. Being able to integrate the many layers of the jyotish chart and knit them together with your own understanding is quite a different skill! This is where time, study, meditation and contemplation are essential. Practice is essential for honing this craft! For those who want to practice and increase their jyotish skills, you will need to be diligent in your studies. Reading books, taking classes and spending time studying charts is essential.

Perhaps the most important part of learning and growing through jyotish wisdom, however, is studying your own chart. Your own karmic map is your reference point for all other understanding- even understanding other charts. Your jyotish chart is the core of your own awareness and will help you unlock your own inner knowing. First and foremost, study your own chart and use it as a reference for understanding yourself, in relation to world.

As the Vedic texts state, Aham Brahmasmi, I am the totality.


Ready to learn more? Join me for my August Jyotish Basics Classes!

Don't have a copy of your chart? Get one here.


* This Article is relevant for reading a North Indian Style chart only.


22 Comments
Flustered
8/4/2015 04:41:05 pm

Sorry, but I don't understand --- about how to do this. "... notice where the first house is in your own chart." Which chart? How, where ...? I could sit here until I got grey. Please help.

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swati link
8/6/2015 08:44:08 am

Sorry to hear you are struggling with your chart. Are you using a North Indian style chart? It should look like the image at the top of the article- 12 diamond/triangle shapes. If so, the article is relevant for you. Use the image at the top of the article to identify your first house. This correlates to the first house in your chart as well. In your own birth chart copy, what is the small number located in the bottom of this house? This is your rising sign. The number correlates to one of the 12 signs as step one indicates in my article. Let me know if you can get to this point and I'll walk you through the rest. Hope that helps.

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Flustered
8/6/2015 04:06:24 pm

Thanks for your prompt response. However - still, which chart? I'm not using any chart and am wondering where I would get that from in the first place. The only chart I have available is the traditional Western one. How would the image atop here apply to me? So I'm sorry, I'm not much clearer now ...:/

swati link
8/6/2015 04:56:03 pm

Sorry to hear you are still having issues. My work and all of my articles are jyotish based- eastern sidereal astrology. As the article states at the bottom: This Article is relevant for reading a North Indian Style chart only. There is also a link at the bottom of the article where you can purchase a copy of your north Indian style chart from me.

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Flustered
8/6/2015 08:22:35 pm

Yes, I got as much. It wasn't clear that one somehow had to acquire - or purchase one - from you to benefit from your articles though. As most other horoscopes and charts pretty much are free these days, I didn't get that this was the setup. Thanks anyway.

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swati link
8/7/2015 04:10:32 am

The article is directed towards those who have a North Indian style chart already or for those who wish to start the process. Either way, you will need a chart and of course I provide that service for my clients.

I can not recommend pulling a random free chart from some website service. I have had countless clients come to me who have been misled and given an incorrect chart as a result.

Obviously I stand behind my ayanamsa and the very special calculations given to me by my teacher, mentor and lineage. If you wish to know more about jyotish, your own personal karmic map, it is imperative that you find a trust worthy source- so that you can trust the information you are given. The accuracy of Jyotish is as much about the precision of the chart calculation details as much as the interpretation of its messages.

I hope you find what you are seeking. Be well!

Flustered
8/7/2015 04:15:01 am

Again, having followed the leads from your interesting articles on elephant journal to here, that wasn't clear. Now it is. Thank you.:)

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blissninny link
9/2/2015 10:31:08 pm

hi dear! finally getting around to this!!! is it possible that i have no planets in my 3rd, 7th, 11th & 12th houses??? i'm using the rashi diagram from the charts you sent me. … thank you sooooo much for your generosity in all that you share. …
blessings,
xj

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Swati link
9/6/2015 06:35:42 pm

Hello Jaimie! Happy to hear from you. Every chart will have at least some houses without planets! You are normal. ;) What you want to pay attention to are the rulers of these signs and where they are located in the chart, as well as what drishti is perhaps being given to the houses in question. Many layers to asses, so start with one house at a time and go from there. Would love to have you in my Basics classes at some point! Happy to share and be well,

Swati*

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Janet Pearce Foster link
1/1/2016 06:24:02 am

Many blessings for this new year, 2016. Have only just found you online through a link from a FB friend. Curious because I'd had a vedic reading in '13 completely revising what I'd previously considered my astrology. I've taken that chart which was arranged a bit differently (a square starting with the 12th House in upper R corner) and worked out my chart in your (lack of a better word) 'argyle' format. Is this correct? Will be contacting you regarding a personal reading but wanted to get this far at the outset.
Blessings,
janet

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Swati
8/24/2017 02:37:33 pm

Hi Janet, Sounds like you may be using a South Indian Style chart. It will be read differently than the map I give above so this article won't be very helpful. Let me know if you need a North Indian style chart.

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Amanda
12/5/2016 03:22:24 pm

Hi,

I am Pisces, a number 12. But how do I figure your my sun sign? Please help.

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Swati
8/24/2017 02:39:23 pm

Where is the Sun located in your chart? Use the process above to locate SY or SUN in your chart. Count from the first house to determine the house. Then see above for what numbers correlate to what signs. Make sure you are using a North Indian chart?

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Rakesh Verma
3/5/2017 09:36:19 am

Kya burs insan hu

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swati
8/24/2017 02:39:47 pm

Do you speak english?

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Candice
8/9/2017 06:22:42 pm

Okay I'm so confused, how do I find which house my sun, moon and planets are located in? I bed to purchase a book of some sort to do so? If so why is this labeled five easy steps if all the info isn't here to create my chart? I am extremely confused and just spend 30 mins trying to figure out where I'm disconnected. I'm really frustrated, I want to knowww !!

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Swati
8/14/2017 09:59:39 am

Do you have a North Indian style chart? If so the article will lead you through the steps. If not, please email me.

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Jack
8/24/2017 05:49:56 pm

Hey, I downloaded a program but I keep getting the numbers all over the place. I understand that the houses move around and whatnot as you look further into the houses, but I am trying to get the one that starts with the lagna in the first house at the center like in your example. Is there a specific name for this one or something? All I have are D-1 through 12 and more. How do I get D-0? And does this have an indian name? I can only choose the other vargas it seems.

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Jack
8/24/2017 06:43:18 pm

Nevermind, I figured it out. 1 on the first house is only if you have the first zodiac sign [Aries] as ascendant and so on. The first chart I made on a site online was numbered 1 - 12 starting on the first house regardless of the ascendant, but the software I downloaded gave me the number of the zodiac sign on the first house.

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Prashant
12/28/2018 09:14:59 am

26.08.1968
time 16.30
Place ahmedabad

can you explain 10th house
when will be tie to settle financially

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Susannah
10/20/2019 09:21:20 pm

I am very interested in finding a mentor and becoming educated in the jyotish chart making and reading. I wonder what your thoughts are on that? Perhaps we could start with you doing my chart?
Thank you
Susannah

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Kody L link
12/21/2020 05:49:23 am

Great post thankkyou

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