Vedansh Jyotish Library
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Long-form lessons on the reasoning, structure and timing behind Vedic astrology.
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Chapter Thirteen: How to Count Houses in a Kundli
Learn how to count the 12 houses in a North Indian Kundli. Start from Lagna, follow the fixed house sequence, and stop confusing house numbers with rāśi numbers.
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Chapter Twelve: Practical Kundli Demo — From Birth Details to the Real Sky
Follow a real Kundli demo using 4 August 2026, 7:00:46 PM, Rishikesh. Learn how date, time, place, Lagna, rāśi numbers and the local horizon connect the chart to…
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Chapter Eleven: What Is a Kundli? — The Sky Map of a Moment
What is a Kundli? Learn how date, time and place turn the living sky into a readable Jyotish birth chart — and why Lagna connects the zodiac to…
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Chapter Ten: Why Vedic and Western Astrology Differ by Almost 24°
Why can the same planet appear in different signs in Vedic and Western astrology? Learn how precession shifts the equinox against the stars, what ayanāṃśa measures, and why…
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Chapter Nine: What Is the Spring Point? Where the Tropical Zodiac Begins
What is the spring point? Learn how the ecliptic and celestial equator create the March equinox, why tropical astrology calls it 0° Aries, and why this reference point…
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Chapter Eight: Kālapuruṣa — When the Zodiac Becomes the Body of Time
What turns the zodiac from a 360° astronomical coordinate system into a language of interpretation? Meet Kālapuruṣa—the Person of Time—and follow the twelve rāśis from the head of…
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Chapter Seven: What Is the Zodiac? Understanding Bhachakra
What is the zodiac before it becomes twelve signs? Learn Bhachakra as the 360° celestial field around the ecliptic, then see how Jyotish places 12 rāśis and 27…
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Chapter Six: Why Your Vedic and Western Zodiac Signs Can Be Different
Why can the same planet appear in different signs in Vedic and Western astrology? Follow the tropical and sidereal starting points, see the markers interactively, and understand where…
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Chapter Five: The Nakṣatras — Why Jyotish Divides the Sky into 27
Why does Jyotish divide the sky into 27 nakṣatras? Follow the Moon’s 27.3-day sidereal rhythm, the 13°20′ sectors, Abhijit, and the two maps that share one 360° sky.
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Chapter Four: The Sun — and Why the Zodiac Has Twelve Signs
Why exactly twelve zodiac signs? Follow the Sun’s apparent path, compare the solar year with the Moon’s rhythm, and discover how one 360° circle becomes twelve 30° rāśis.
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Chapter Three: The Moon, the Breath and the Mind
Your breath may be following the Moon more closely than you think. Follow Chandra’s 27.3-day rhythm into tithi, Ida and Pingala, Moon sign and manas—with interactive tools to…
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The First Breath and the Eastern Horizon
What turns the shared sky into your sky? Explore Lagna as the precise meeting of Earth’s rotation, an exact birth moment and the eastern horizon—and see how it…
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