Ask Ācārya आचार्य से पूछें

The whole chart, read as one thing

“Give me a birth date, a time and a place, and I will begin at the lagna and the Moon — the two the rest of the reading hangs on.”

Marriage, partnership and the seventh house

“Tell me your birth details. If there is a second chart, bring it — matching is a comparison, and one chart cannot make one.”

Work, profession and the tenth house

“Tell me the birth details and what you do now. I will read the tenth house, its lord and the Ṣaḍbala before I say anything about direction.”

Earning, holding and the second and eleventh houses

“Birth details, and the money question in your own words. I will read the second, the eleventh and the yogas — and I will not tell you what to buy.”

Study, grasp and the fourth and fifth houses

“Birth details, and what is being decided — a subject, an examination, a change of course. I will read the fourth, the fifth and their lords.”

Śani, Sāde Sātī and the long patience

“Birth details, please. I will look at where Śani sits, what strength it holds, and which period is actually running before I say a word about Sāde Sātī.”

Which period is running, in four systems

“Birth details, and tell me how sure you are of the time. Everything I am about to say about timing moves with it.”

The sky as it stands today, against your Moon

“Birth details, so I can find your janma rāśi. A transit means nothing until it is counted from somewhere.”

A child’s chart, read for a parent

“The child’s birth details, please. I will read this as a parent would want it read, and I will leave out what a child should not be described by.”

Children and progeny, the fifth house

“Birth details, please. I will read the fifth house, its lord and the Saptāṁśa — and I will tell you how strong or weak that evidence is.”

Wellbeing and constitution — not medicine

“Birth details, please — and if this is about a symptom, see a doctor first and come back after. I can read a chart; I cannot read a body.”

Choosing a time, against your own chart

“Birth details, the undertaking, and the window you can work within. I will score the days inside it and tell you what each score rests on.”

Land, house and the fourth house

“Birth details, and what the property question actually is — buying, building, holding or letting go. Those read differently.”

Travel, distance and settling abroad

“Birth details, and whether this is a journey or a move. The chart answers those two differently.”

The named combinations, each with its verse

“Birth details. I will name what is actually present, with its text, and then tell you which of them the chart has the strength to deliver.”

The Jaimini method, kept separate

“Birth details, please. I will work in the Jaimini reckoning and say so at every step, so you can hold it against a Parāśara reading rather than mistake one for the other.”

The solar-return year ahead

“Birth details, and which year you mean. The year chart is cast from the Sun returning to its natal degree, so the year has a real start and it is rarely your birthday on the calendar.”

The birth star and its pāda

“Birth details, please. The pāda moves roughly every hour of longitude, so if the time is uncertain I will tell you which pāda is in doubt rather than pick one.”

Remedies, only as the texts state them

“Birth details, and the matter you want a remedy for. I will first show you what in the chart the texts would call the difficulty — a remedy with no cited difficulty behind it is a sale, not a śāstra.”

The mundane record, counted after the fact

“Ask me what the record holds for a configuration and I will show you the counts and the baseline. Ask me what will happen and I will decline — this branch is here as history, not as forecast.”