Astrological Calculations India
In this article, we will discuss about the most popular as well as accurate astrology calculators for generating an astrological chart. It does not matter if you are looking for a simple chart or a detailed analysis, some principles related to astrology calculations have to be followed.
With the advancement in technology, you can easily generate your Kundali or astrological chart online. You just have to input some basic information and report is immediately available to you.
There are various systems used in astrological calculations India. The most popular systems are the Placidus method and the Koch house system.
A person’s unique natal chart is based on his/her ascendant. A person’s ascendant is also known as the rising sign. Basically due to rotation of the earth on its axis in 24 hours, every two hours approximately a sign rises in the eastern horizon.
A native’s ascendant or rising sign is the zodiac sign which is rising over the horizon at the time of native’s birth. It is the sign which is at the beginning of the first house of the native’s personal horoscope. Having ascertained the ascendant one can then write down all the 12 signs in an anticlockwise direction for the rest of the houses.
For astrological calculations India, a person needs to know the exact time and location of his birth. This will tell you the correct ascendant or rising sign. There are times when you may not be sure about your birth time. You can use 12:00 PM (noon) as your birth time and location where you were born. However, this method may be somewhat inaccurate.
In case you know a time frame in which you were born, like two hours plus or minus, you can input that. This would actually be better than considering 12:00 PM. In case you feel that the rising sign based on this birth time does not fit your personality and nature, you should read about the sign before and ahead of this ascendant.
If someone does not know the exact time of birth, then there are methods which can be used to arrive at the correct birth time. One method is nadi rectification given by Dr. D.V Suba rao.There is western system of birth time correction given by an author Mr. M.C Jain who have rectified many horoscopes.
There is still another method in which major incidence of the native noted down and matched with the horoscope being generated. This way one can arrive at the correct ascendant, but it needs an expert astrological calculations to arrive at.
It is possible that you may have entered the wrong time for astrological calculations India. You can try many different ascendant calculators on the Internet and use the manual shortcut method given in most of them. You should check out a few and compare their results.
You should always remember that the Vedic ascendant (Eastern Sidereal astrology) may be different than the Western or Tropical ascendant. For example, your tropical ascendant may be Scorpio while sidereal (Vedic) ascendant may be Sagittarius
This is simply because of the system of calculation. Westerm astrologers use Sayana system where Ayanamsa is included in this but, in vedic astrology Nirayana system is used where the first point of Aries is fixed with respect to the star which is at 180° away from this point and Ayanamsa is applied later.