How is Jyotish, Vedic astrology done?

Convert your Western chart by subtracting the ayanamsa. Locate your lunar nakshatra. See which planetary period you are in now.

Master Li Wen

Living tradition

Jyotish, Vedic astrology

India since the Vedas; routinely consulted before weddings and business.

Uses the sidereal zodiac (about 24 degrees behind the Western one), 27 lunar mansions and planetary periods marking life stages.

How it's done

01Convert your Western chart by subtracting the ayanamsa.
02Locate your lunar nakshatra.
03See which planetary period you are in now.

With your own tools

You need exact time and place; many Indians carry their chart written from birth.

With Ocluna

With your date, and better with your time, I calculate your lunar nakshatra and sidereal signs: you'll see the Vedic zodiac sits about 24 degrees behind yours.

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What Master Li Wen tells you

Jyotish means science of light; in India many weddings are still set by comparing the couple's charts, and a newborn's horoscope is cast within hours.
The 27 nakshatras are the Moon's wives in myth; the moon spends one night with each and so completes its month.
A complete list of the lunar mansions appears in hymn 19.7 of the Atharvaveda, and there are scattered mentions in the Rigveda.
The astronomy manual called Surya Siddhanta, composed around the 4th and 5th centuries, established the positional calculations that Indian astrology continued to use centuries later.
The astronomer Varahamihira, author of the Brihat Jataka in the 6th century, is the classical source that organized Indian astrology into chapters.
The Indian Calendar Reform Committee adopted the Lahiri ayanamsha in 1955 as the official measure of the distance between the sidereal and tropical zodiacs.
Ancient lists counted twenty-eight lunar mansions; the one that was left out when they were reduced to twenty-seven is called Abhijit and corresponds to the star Vega.
In the namakarana ceremony, many Indian families choose the first syllable of the baby's name according to the lunar mansion the Moon occupied at birth.
The Indian daily calendar called panchanga records five pieces of information for each day; one is the lunar mansion and another is the phase, which is called tithi.

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What Master Li Wen tells you

Jyotish means science of light; in India many weddings are still set by comparing the couple's charts, and a newborn's horoscope is cast within hours.

The 27 nakshatras are the Moon's wives in myth; the moon spends one night with each and so completes its month.

A complete list of the lunar mansions appears in hymn 19.7 of the Atharvaveda, and there are scattered mentions in the Rigveda.

The astronomy manual called Surya Siddhanta, composed around the 4th and 5th centuries, established the positional calculations that Indian astrology continued to use centuries later.

The astronomer Varahamihira, author of the Brihat Jataka in the 6th century, is the classical source that organized Indian astrology into chapters.

The Indian Calendar Reform Committee adopted the Lahiri ayanamsha in 1955 as the official measure of the distance between the sidereal and tropical zodiacs.

Ancient lists counted twenty-eight lunar mansions; the one that was left out when they were reduced to twenty-seven is called Abhijit and corresponds to the star Vega.

In the namakarana ceremony, many Indian families choose the first syllable of the baby's name according to the lunar mansion the Moon occupied at birth.

The Indian daily calendar called panchanga records five pieces of information for each day; one is the lunar mansion and another is the phase, which is called tithi.