Nakshatra and rashi calculator — free, from your birth details
Your birth star with its pada and lord, your Moon sign, your lagna, and the nakshatra of all nine grahas.
These run on the Swiss Ephemeris, the same planetary data professional software uses. Every page shows the rule behind what it says.
The other free tools
- Kundli Your birth chart as a North Indian diagram, with every planet, sign, nakshatra and pada.
- Life Drishti Your whole Vimshottari dasha sequence as one timeline, from birth to 120.
- Gochar Where the slow planets are now against your Moon sign, including Sade Sati windows.
- Sade Sati Every Sade Sati of your life with its three phases dated, plus the two dhaiyas, from your own Moon sign.
- Milan Ashtakoota compatibility out of 36, with every koota's working shown.
- Mangal Dosha Where Mars sits, counted from the lagna, the Moon and Venus, with every classical exception listed.
- Kaal Sarp Whether all seven grahas fall on one side of the Rahu–Ketu axis, with every position shown.
- Atmakaraka & Darakaraka The eight Jaimini chara karakas, ranked by degree, with the number each rank was sorted on.
- Kundli Milan by date All 36 Ashtakoota points from two dates and a rough time of day — no birth time needed.
- Love calculator Compatibility from two birth charts as a single percentage on a dial — the short version of Guna Milan.
- Jeevan Insights Your periods grouped by the part of life classical astrology connects them with.
- Reports Everything above as one PDF you can keep, in English or Hindi.
- Panchang Tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana and the weekday, with sunrise and sunset for your city.
Enter your birth details
Calculated from the exact moment and place you were born.
What this is
The Moon crosses the whole zodiac in about twenty-seven and a third days, and that circle is divided into twenty-seven nakshatras of 13°20′ each. Whichever one the Moon stood in at your birth is your janma nakshatra, and each nakshatra is quartered again into four padas of 3°20′. The sign the Moon was in is your janma rashi — which is what "my rashi" nearly always means in India, not the Sun sign.
All of that is a lookup from one number: the Moon's longitude at the minute you were born. This page computes that longitude with the Swiss Ephemeris, sidereally, with the Lahiri ayanamsa, and then reads off the nakshatra, the pada, the lord, the sign and the same four things for every other graha. Because the nakshatra changes roughly once a day and the pada once every six hours, the date alone will usually give you the nakshatra and will not reliably give you the pada — the time is what settles it.
Common questions
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Why is my Sun sign different here from what I grew up with? Show the answer
Because the two systems measure from different starting points. Western astrology measures from the spring equinox, Vedic astrology from a fixed point among the stars, and the two have drifted about 24 degrees apart — roughly one degree every 72 years. The page shows both signs and the exact gap on your birth date, so you can see it is arithmetic rather than a disagreement. Neither figure is wrong; they answer the same question in different coordinates.
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Do I need my exact birth time? Show the answer
For the nakshatra, usually not — the Moon takes about a day to cross one, so a date and a rough time will normally land in the right one. For the pada, yes: a pada lasts about six hours. For the lagna it matters most of all, because the rising sign changes about every two hours and the degree within it every four minutes. If your time is uncertain, treat the nakshatra as reliable and the lagna as provisional.
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Which ayanamsa does this use, and does it matter? Show the answer
Lahiri, which is the standard in India and what most Indian software and almanacs use. It matters at the edges: the ayanamsas in circulation differ by up to about a degree, which is enough to move a planet sitting near a boundary into the neighbouring nakshatra or pada. Every page on this site uses the same one, so the pages never disagree with each other — and the value used for your date is printed on the result so you can compare it with another source.