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Astrology sites assume you already know the jargon. These reads assume nothing — each one says what the term is, how it is computed, and what it does not mean.

What is a kundli?

A kundli (birth chart) is a map of the sky at the moment and place you were born — twelve houses, nine grahas, computed from real astronomy.…

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What is Sade Sati?

Sade Sati is the roughly 7½-year period when Saturn transits the 12th, 1st and 2nd signs from your natal Moon — a computable window, not a c…

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What is Mangal Dosha (Manglik)?

Mangal Dosha is a traditional flag raised when Mars occupies certain houses of a chart — and the tradition itself cancels it far more often …

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What is a nakshatra?

A nakshatra is one of 27 equal divisions of the zodiac — 13°20′ each — and 'your' nakshatra is simply the one the Moon occupied when you wer…

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What is Rahu Kaal?

Rahu Kaal is one-eighth of the daylight hours, assigned by weekday, that tradition sets aside as unfavourable for STARTING new ventures — an…

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Why do two apps show different signs? (Ayanāṁśa, explained)

Almost every 'different answer' between astrology apps traces to one of three named settings — the ayanāṁśa, the house system, or the node t…

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Where do these fall in your chart? AstroAmrit maps every sky event onto your own birth chart — which house it touches, which of your planets it meets — with every claim cited to the computation behind it.

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How this table was computed

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AstroAmrit is a glass box: every number on this page is reproducible from the stated method. These are astronomical facts, not predictions. Times are instants of the event's global maximum or exact crossing; your local civil date can differ by one day depending on timezone.