Charts & Techniques

Functional Benefics and Malefics: Why a Malefic Can Be Your Best Graha

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

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

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

Māraka comes from the 2nd and 7th lords. Bādhaka comes from the lagna's modality. Neither category is a prediction of death.

The D10 refines what the 10th house already promises. It does not name professions, and each of its cells is only three degrees wide.

Ṣaḍbala adds six separate measurements into one number. That number describes capacity, and capacity is a different question from outcome.

Retrograde Rāhu and retrograde Ketu are permanent states, so they cannot mean anything special in a chart. Here is why, and the one real exc

The D9 grades the strength of what the rāśi chart already promises. Reading it as a standalone marriage chart is the common mistake.

The iṣṭa devatā is derived from the ātmakāraka's navāṁśa position, which is why two people with the same Moon sign get different answers.

Every graha aspects the seventh house from itself. Only Mars, Jupiter and Saturn add special aspects, and the counting is simpler than most

Exaltation peaks at one degree, and strength falls off linearly from there. Here are the seven degrees and the arithmetic that ranks any pla