The Jyotiṣa Journal — Karma Jyotisha

Gochara Is Read From the Moon, Not From the Ascendant

Classical transit results are defined as houses counted from the janma rāśi. Reading them from the lagna measures from the wrong point.

The 10th house is the hardest house in the chart to place, and celebrity Saturn lists almost never say which house convention produced the c

All twelve houses for all twelve lagnas, with the six yogakāraka cases, the māraka and bādhaka rule, and why no planet is a malefic on its o

Natural malefic and functional malefic are two different categories. Saturn is a natural malefic and the single best graha for a Taurus or L

Celebrity lists for this placement rest on unverified birth times, a house system choice and circular rectification. Here is what the record

The nitya yoga is the only panchāṅga limb built from a sum of longitudes, and the karaṇa is half a tithi. Here is how both are computed and

Viparīta Rāja Yoga is built entirely out of the 6th, 8th and 12th houses, the exact placements readers are told to fear. Here is the actual

Classical gochara pairs every favourable transit house with a vedha house. Occupy the pair and the result is obstructed, which most modern t

Vargottama has a fixed degree band in every sign, and that band is exactly one nakṣatra pada wide. Here is the arithmetic and the misreading

Tārā is a nine-step count run in both directions, and it is the same cycle used to pick a day. Graha maitrī scores two Moon-sign lords.

The sixteen vargas are not equally weighted. The vimśopaka scheme gives D60 more weight than the rāśi chart and gives D10 half a point.

The D7 divides each sign into seven parts and counts them differently in odd and even signs. Get that rule wrong and half your chart lands e