Fundamentals of Vedic astrology(Beginner to Intermediate)

Explore the ecliptic plane and celestial sphere, and learn right ascension and declination to locate objects, plus vernal and autumnal equinox concepts for horoscope calculations.

Learn why the zodiac, a belt around the ecliptic, serves as a universal reference frame to position sun, planets, and stars from any location.

Learn the twelve zodiac signs, each spanning 30 degrees on the ecliptic belt, with Mesh/Aries through Meena/Pisces and their starting degrees.

Learn the precession of the equinox and its vital role in Vedic calculations, including the twenty-six thousand year wobble and the Ayanamsa difference from western astrology.

Understand how rahu and ketu influence eclipse formation by explaining the line of nodes, the moon–ecliptic tilt, and lunar precession in vedic astrology.

Examine planetary distances from the sun, their revolution periods, and retrograde motion, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Moon, Rahu, and Ketu.

Explain retrograde motion as the apparent backward motion of planets due to Earth's relative movement, contrasting prograde and retrograde pathways, and illustrate with a car overtaking analogy and a heliocentric explanation.

Explore the celestial sphere and zodiac as a stable reference frame, using right ascension, declination, ayanamsa, and retrograde motion in Vedic astrology.

Explore the 27 nakshatras and how they evenly distribute across the 12 rashis, with each nakshatra spanning 13°20' and each rashi 30°.

Learn the south indian chart, an earth-centered map of the rashis and nakshatras with their padas, read in clockwise order from aries.

Learn the symbols of the zodiac signs from Aries to Pisces, with each sign shown by its emblem, such as the goat, bull, twins, crab, and the lion.

Explore how zodiac signs divide into odd and even (odd as male, even as female) and into movable, fixed, and common signs, with four signs per category, three-sign interval.

Classify zodiac signs by elements—fiery, earthy, airy, and watery—and identify long and short ascension signs, noting how rising times differ in northern versus southern hemispheres.

Explore the representations of all twelve zodiac signs and how each sign links to specific body parts and jobs, from Aries ruling the head to Pisces governing the feet.

Discover chapter 3’s zodiac framework: 12 rashis, 27 nakshatras with padas, the south Indian chart, sign symbols, and the movable, fixed, common, fiery, earthy, airy, and watery classifications.

Explore the nine Vedic planets, including sun and moon, plus Rahu and Ketu, and learn their symbols, relationships, and key concepts like exalted, debilitated, and Moolatrikona houses.

Explore permanent planetary relationships in Vedic astrology, identifying friends, enemies, and neutrals among Sun, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn, and Venus, with rules to remember for shadbala.

Explore planetary ownerships in Vedic astrology, where Sun rules Leo and Moon rules Cancer, and the other planets govern two signs each using a distance-based assignment.

Explore planetary exaltation, debilitation, and moolatrikona signs with degree placements, oppositions, and mnemonic rules to memorize dignities for each planet.

Map planetary relationships across the 12 signs, detailing friendly, enemy, neutral, own, exalted, and debilitation houses with Moolatrikona notes and the logic guiding interpretation.

Explore planetary representations in vedic astrology, mapping sun to pitru karaka and father, moon to matru karaka and mind, and Rahu and Ketu as node influences.

Explore the earth as the observation point and treat Sun, Rahu, and Ketu as planets; map ownership of signs, exaltation, debilitation, moolatrikona, friendly/enemy/neutral relationships, and karaka roles.

Explore the concept of Bhavas in Vedic astrology, the 12 houses viewed from earth, including ascendant (first bhava) and the meanings of descendant, madya lagna, and patala lagna.

Explore the 12 bhavas in Vedic astrology, with each bhava representing aspects from body and personality to wealth, marriage, longevity, and karma; learn their representations for prediction.

Learn to classify the twelve vedic astrology houses into kendra (square), trikona (triangle), panaparas (succedent), apoklimas (cadent), oopachaya (increment) and dusthana (suffering) and mark them on a South Indian chart.

Explore the significance of bhavas, the twelve bhavas in the south indian chart from ascendant lagna to dusthanas, and how they guide predictions.

Explore planetary conjunctions when two planets share a zodiac sign within ten degrees and how aspection describes one planet viewing another, using the Parasara method in a south Indian chart.

Learn the general aspection rules where every planet, including Rahu and Kethu, has a seventh-house aspection; Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn provide special aspections to specific houses.

Explore how planetary conjunctions occur within 10 degrees in the same sign, how beyond 15 degrees they cease to be conjunctions, and how general and special aspection—Mars, Jupiter, Saturn—guide predictions.

Learn to cast a horoscope using manual and software methods, including Rasi and Navamsa charts, Nakshatra, and time measurements with ghati and vighati.

Ascendant sign rises in the east at birth and serves as the primary reference point for analyzing a horoscope.

Learn how to obtain a planetary ephemeris and cast a sample horoscope by entering Steve Jobs's birth details, verifying positions, and noting retrogrades and the ascendant.

Mark planetary positions from the ephemeris on the south Indian rashi chart, placing Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Pisces. Set ascendant in Leo, assign houses, note Saturn's exaltation.

Learn to determine each planet's nakshatra pada by locating its degree within a sign and using base 60 arithmetic. See sun, moon, and Mars examples to master the method.

Cast the Navamsa chart by dividing each Rashi into nine equal parts, each 3°20', allocating Nakshatra padas. Understand the movable, fixed, and common sign patterns to determine Navamsa starting points.

Learn to cast the navamsa chart using planetary longitudes, rashi, and nakshatra padas, verify with a shortcut method, and apply to a sample horoscope.

Explore the 16 varga charts, from Rashi to Shastiamsa, and learn how these divisions refine predictions when used with the Rashi chart.

Explore Astrosoft, a free vedic astrology software, learning to download, install Java Runtime Environment, generate horoscopes from online ephemeris, and verify planetary positions using Steve Jobs as an example.

Master the vedic time system with 2.5 ghatis per hour and 24 minutes per ghati, and explore ascendant, sun, moon signs, rashi and navamsa charts from Steven Jobs' horoscope sample.

The Vimshottari dasa system ties lunar nakshatra at birth to a 120-year life cycle, assigning starting mahadasa per nakshatra and subdividing into bukti and antras for timing predictions.

Learn to calculate the starting dasa bukti for a horoscope by locating the moon in Uttara Bhadrapada pada 4th, determining Saturn’s 19-year mahadasa, and computing sub-periods.

Learn to predict with the Vimshottari dasa system by weighing the dasa, bukti, and antra lords. Use gochara transits, yogakaraka, bhava sandhi, dusthanas to assess auspicious or unfavorable results.

Master the vimshottari dasa, starting mahadasha by birth nakshatra, and compute buktis and antras to predict bhava influences with gochara checks.

The shadbala, six sources of planetary strength including sthanabala, digbala, chestabala, kalabala, drikbala, and naisargikabala, assesses planetary power in bhavas for horoscope predictions.

Learn to check shadbala in astrology software, view its six strengths—sthanabala, digbala, kalabala, drikbala, chesta bala, naisarkigabala—and interpret rupas, percentages, and bhavabala rankings.

Discover how Vedic yogas unite planets to form raja yoga, dhana yoga, and gnana yoga, and learn rules to identify benefic, malefic, and yogakaraka from the ascendant.

Explore key raja yogas and pancha mahapurusha yoga in Vedic astrology, including gajakesari, chandra mangala, adhi, vasumathi, sakata, amala, lakshmi, jaya, and saraswati yogas.