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Ashtakvarga Calculator by Date of Birth — Your Chart as a Number Map, With the Working Shown

Eight reference points - the seven planets and your ascendant - award benefic points to every sign. The totals say which parts of your chart the system reads as supported. This one computes all seven tables, the Sarvashtakavarga with its 337 check, and then continues into the Trikona and Ekadhipatya reductions, Shodhya Pinda and Kaksha, which most calculators stop before.

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Your Ashtakvarga Journey

Chart → Eight References → Your Scores

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1. The eight references are fixed

Your Moon's nakshatra at birth names your first dasha lord — and the crossed portion sets the exact balance you were born with.

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2. Every sign is scored, 0 to 8, seven times

Ketu 7 · Venus 20 · Sun 6 · Moon 10 · Mars 7 · Rahu 18 · Jupiter 16 · Saturn 19 · Mercury 17 — the fixed sequence, dated to the day for YOUR birth.

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3. Seven tables sum into one map

Sarvashtakavarga (the whole map) → Bhinnashtakavarga (each planet) → Kaksha (the eighth of a sign). Your free result shows the full running stack — with every change-date.

Every date above your result is computed from your exact birth details — never rounded, never guessed.

Why this calculator is different

Bindu-exact tables, reference-honest reading

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Real astronomy

Swiss Ephemeris + Lahiri ayanamsa. Your Moon's longitude — and therefore your whole timeline — computed exactly, including the true balance at birth most apps round away.

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The full map, free

Not just the Ashtakvarga — your Bindu Table and kaksha layer too, each with start and end dates, plus a countdown to the next change.

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No good/bad drama

A period delivers its planet AS IT IS in your chart. We show the lord's dignity with every card — an exalted Saturn and an afflicted Venus read very differently, and honestly.

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The 28-point line marked

Ashtakvarga-sandhi — the tender crossover months — are computed and shown, so you plan completions and launches with open eyes.

Simple & honest

How it works

Enter your birth details

Date, exact time and place — the Moon moves 13° a day, so time matters.

We score all twelve signs

Swiss Ephemeris computes your nakshatra, balance at birth and every period, to the day.

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The contribution lists, in full

Every bindu in your tables comes from one of these lines — count them yourself and you get the same numbers.

Awarded toFrom SunFrom MoonFrom MarsFrom MercFrom JupFrom VenFrom SatFrom LagnaTotal
Sun1,2,4,7,8,9,10,113,6,10,111,2,4,7,8,9,10,113,5,6,9,10,11,125,6,9,116,7,121,2,4,7,8,9,10,113,4,6,10,11,1248
Moon3,6,7,8,10,111,3,6,7,10,112,3,5,6,9,10,111,3,4,5,7,8,10,111,4,7,8,10,11,123,4,5,7,9,10,113,5,6,113,6,10,1149
Mars3,5,6,10,113,6,111,2,4,7,8,10,113,5,6,116,10,11,126,8,11,121,4,7,8,9,10,111,3,6,10,1139
Mercury5,6,9,11,122,4,6,8,10,111,2,4,7,8,9,10,111,3,5,6,9,10,11,126,8,11,121,2,3,4,5,8,9,111,2,4,7,8,9,10,111,2,4,6,8,10,1154
Jupiter1,2,3,4,7,8,9,10,112,5,7,9,111,2,4,7,8,10,111,2,4,5,6,9,10,111,2,3,4,7,8,10,112,5,6,9,10,113,5,6,121,2,4,5,6,7,9,10,1156
Venus8,11,121,2,3,4,5,8,9,11,123,5,6,9,11,123,5,6,9,115,8,9,10,111,2,3,4,5,8,9,10,113,4,5,8,9,10,111,2,3,4,5,8,9,1152
Saturn1,2,4,7,8,10,113,6,113,5,6,10,11,126,8,9,10,11,125,6,11,126,11,123,5,6,111,3,4,6,10,1139

Read a row like this: for the Sun's table, count places 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 from wherever the Sun sits, and award one bindu to each sign you land on. Do that for all eight columns and you have the Sun's 48. The seven totals always sum to 337 — that is the method's own check, and the first thing any calculation must pass.

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Born 1 · 10 · 19 · 28 → Sarvashtakavarga 1 Born 2 · 11 · 20 · 29 → Sarvashtakavarga 2 Born 3 · 12 · 21 · 30 → Sarvashtakavarga 3 Born 4 · 13 · 22 · 31 → Sarvashtakavarga 4 Born 5 · 14 · 23 → Sarvashtakavarga 5 Born 6 · 15 · 24 → Sarvashtakavarga 6 Born 7 · 16 · 25 → Sarvashtakavarga 7 Born 8 · 17 · 26 → Sarvashtakavarga 8 Born 9 · 18 · 27 → Sarvashtakavarga 9

Then enter your full details above — the calculator adds your Bhinnashtakavarga, Parashari name, the bindu table grid and today’s timing, free.

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  • The eight references, and how every bindu is awarded — the working shown
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  • Sarvashtakavarga by house — 337 bindus, the 28-point line marked
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  • The 7th-house marriage read — Venus and Jupiter bindus in the sign
  • Career, wealth and health houses scored — what each SAV number means for you
  • Transit predictions for Saturn, Jupiter, Rahu and Ketu — current and next signs
  • Kakshya tables for each transit — the good weeks and the hard ones, named
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SAV · BAV · KAKSHYA · 337 BINDUS

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What to do with your scores

Above 28, below 25, and the line between — what each one asks

ABOVE 28
A supportive sign

Whatever transits through it gives its good results, and the house it occupies is a life area that holds. Start things when Saturn or Jupiter enter such a sign; the bindus carry the transit.

25–28
Average — the planet decides

The sign neither helps nor hinders; the transiting planet’s own Bhinnashtakavarga bindus in it (4 or more is good) decide the result. Read the BAV, not the SAV, here.

BELOW 25
A thin sign

A sign to be careful in when slow planets pass through — not a sentence. Its house lord’s own bindus and the dasha decide when it matters; the page prints both.

Myth vs Fact

Five things people get wrong about Ashtakvarga

✗ Myth: A low SAV house means that area of life is doomed.
✓ Fact: It means slow transits through that sign are hard. The house lord’s own bindus, the planets in it and the dashas decide when — and whether — it matters.
✗ Myth: Ashtakvarga works from the date of birth alone.
✓ Fact: The lagna is one of the eight references, so the time and place are needed. Without them the tables shift by a sign.
✗ Myth: The 28-point line is a hard rule.
✓ Fact: It is the average (337 ÷ 12). Texts read 25–30 as ordinary; the real signal is a sign far above or far below it.
✗ Myth: Sarvashtakavarga alone predicts transits.
✓ Fact: The transiting planet’s own Bhinnashtakavarga bindus in the sign decide its result; the SAV is the background. Kakshya narrows it to the week.
✗ Myth: Every software gives the same bindus.
✓ Fact: Some use Parashari rules, some Varahamihira’s, and a few skip the lagna’s contribution. This page prints the working so the numbers can be checked against any of them.
Key questions, answered

Ashtakvarga, Explained Properly

Ashtakvarga Calculator by Date of Birth — Your Chart as a Number Map

An ashtakvarga calculator by date of birth turns the birth chart into numbers: for each of the seven planets, every sign is scored 0 to 8 by how many of eight reference points (the seven planets and the lagna) “vote” it good, and the seven tables are summed into one. The result is a map of where your chart is strong and where it is thin, sign by sign. This ashtakvarga calculator by date of birth prints every table with the working — which reference gave which bindu — because a number without its working cannot be checked.

Sarvashtakavarga Chart — the Sum, and the Numbers That Matter

The sarvashtakavarga chart (SAV) is the total of the seven planetary tables: 337 bindus spread across twelve signs, average 28. A sign above 28 is read as supportive, above 30 as strong; below 25 as weak, below 22 as a sign to be careful in. The sarvashtakavarga chart from an ashtakvarga calculator by date of birth is the fastest honest read of a chart there is — a house with 33 bindus and a house with 19 will not behave alike whatever the planets say — and this page prints it with the house numbers beside the signs.

Bhinnashtakavarga — the Seven Tables Behind the Sum

Bhinnashtakavarga (BAV) is the individual table for one planet: how many of the eight references support that planet in each sign, 0 to 8. The rule of thumb: a planet transiting a sign where its own BAV gives 4 or more bindus gives its good results; below 4 it gives its bad ones, whatever the sign’s dignity. Bhinnashtakavarga tables are printed by this ashtakvarga calculator by date of birth for all seven planets, and they are what the transit predictions on this page are built from.

Ashtakvarga Points Meaning — Reading 0 to 8

Ashtakvarga points meaning is simple once the scale is known: in a BAV, 0–3 bindus is weak, 4 is neutral, 5–8 is strong; in the SAV, under 25 is weak, 25–30 average, over 30 strong. Ashtakvarga points meaning — the scale every ashtakvarga calculator by date of birth uses — applies to signs, so the house a sign occupies in your chart gives the life area — a 33-bindu sign in the 10th is a strong career house; the same 33 in the 6th is strength in service, debt and rivals.

Ashtakvarga 28 Points — the Line Between Good and Bad

Ashtakvarga 28 points is the SAV average (337 ÷ 12) and the working threshold in every classical text: a sign at or above 28 supports whatever transits through it, a sign below 28 does not. Ashtakvarga 28 points is also the transit rule for Saturn and Jupiter — the slow planets — because their results are read as much from the sign’s SAV score as from the house. This ashtakvarga calculator by date of birth marks every sign above and below the line.

Ashtakvarga for Marriage — the 7th House Score

Ashtakvarga for marriage reads the SAV of the 7th house sign and the BAV of Venus (and Jupiter in a woman’s chart) in it. A 7th above 28 with Venus giving 4+ bindus is read as a marriage that holds; a 7th below 25 asks for a careful match and a good muhurat rather than a dark verdict. Ashtakvarga for marriage in this ashtakvarga calculator by date of birth also flags the 7th lord’s own BAV in the sign it sits in, which is the part most online tools skip.

Ashtakvarga Transit Prediction — Where the Numbers Earn Their Keep

Ashtakvarga transit prediction is the system’s real purpose: a planet’s transit result depends on the bindus it holds in the sign it enters. Saturn entering a sign where its BAV is 5 gives a productive Sade Sati; the same Saturn in a 2-bindu sign gives the hard version. Ashtakvarga transit prediction in this ashtakvarga calculator by date of birth is printed for Saturn, Jupiter and Rahu–Ketu for the current and next signs, with the bindus that decide each.

Kakshya — the Eighth of a Sign, for Timing to the Week

Kakshya divides each sign into eight parts of 3°45′, one for each reference (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Lagna in that order). A transiting planet gives its good result only in the kakshyas whose lord contributed a bindu in that sign — so a 4-bindu sign has four good weeks in a Saturn transit and four hard ones. Kakshya is the finest timing tool in Ashtakvarga; the ashtakvarga calculator by date of birth report prints the kakshya table for each transit so the good weeks can be named.

How to Read Your Ashtakvarga in Five Minutes

Start with the Sarvashtakavarga row: find the three highest signs and the three lowest, and note which houses they fall in from your lagna. Those six houses are the chart’s loud areas — the strong ones carry whatever transits through them, the thin ones ask for care. Then open the Bhinnashtakavarga of Saturn and Jupiter only, because those two move slowly enough to matter, and read their bindus in the signs they occupy this year. That is the whole first pass of any ashtakvarga calculator by date of birth; the kakshya tables and the 7th-house read come after, once the map is in your head.

Three Errors Even Good Software Makes

The first is skipping the lagna’s contribution, which drops every sign by up to one bindu and moves signs across the 28-point line. The second is reading the Sarvashtakavarga for a transit when the transiting planet’s own Bhinnashtakavarga is the rule — a 30-bindu sign where Saturn holds only 2 of its own is a hard Saturn transit, not a soft one. The third is quoting bindus without the sign’s house, so a strong 8th house reads as good news. This page prints the working, the BAV beside the SAV, and the house numbers, so none of the three can hide.

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Questions people ask

Ashtakvarga — Frequently Asked

Ashtakvarga kya hai - what is it?
A scoring system: each sign gets 0-8 points from each of seven planets, based on eight reference points, and the seven tables sum into one (Sarvashtakavarga, 337 points, average 28). It shows where the chart is strong sign by sign. The page prints every table with the working.
28 points ka matlab kya hai?
28 is the SAV average. A sign at or above 28 supports what transits through it; below 28 it does not. Over 30 is strong, under 25 is weak.
Bhinnashtakavarga aur sarvashtakavarga me farak?
Bhinnashtakavarga is one planet's table (0-8 per sign); sarvashtakavarga is the sum of all seven (0-56, average 28). Transits are read from the planet's own BAV; the house's overall strength from the SAV.
Can ashtakvarga predict transits?
That is its purpose. A planet transiting a sign where its own BAV is 4 or more gives its good results; below 4 its hard ones. Kakshya narrows it to the week.
Does it work without birth time?
No. The lagna is one of the eight references and the house numbers depend on it. Without the time the tables shift; the page needs the time.
Is a low-scoring house a problem for life?
It is a sign to be careful in, not a sentence. The house lord's own BAV, the planets in it and the dashas decide when it matters. The page prints all three.
What is a bindu?
A benefic point. Eight reference points - the seven planets and your ascendant - award them to each sign by fixed classical lists, and the count is the reading.
Why does everything total 337?
Because the seven planetary totals are fixed - 48, 49, 39, 54, 56, 52 and 39 - and they sum to 337 in every chart. If a calculator gives you another figure, it has made an arithmetic error. It is the method's own check.
Why are Rahu and Ketu excluded?
They are shadow points rather than bodies, and the classical contribution tables do not include them. Some modern treatments add them; the standard method does not.
Does a high count mean good luck?
It means the system reads that area as supported. The tradition describes conditions, not outcomes, and no classical source produces an event from a bindu count.
What counts as a strong house?
Conventionally thirty or more is read as strong, twenty-five to twenty-nine as average, below twenty-five as lean. Those bands are a reading convention rather than a measurement, and we say so.
What is ashtakvarga actually useful for?
Reading transits. A planet crossing a sign where it holds six of its own bindus and one where it holds one are different transits for you - and that is the system's most practical use.
What are the reductions, and why do they matter?
Trikona shodhana removes the smallest value from each group of three signs; Ekadhipatya shodhana adjusts signs sharing a ruler. They are part of the classical method, and most online calculators stop before them - several say so openly.
What is Kaksha?
Each sign divided into eight parts of 3 degrees 45 minutes, each belonging to one of the eight references. It is the finest level the classical transit method reaches, and almost nothing online computes it.
Can ashtakvarga tell me how long I will live?
No. That claim is made on several calculators from the 8th house count and it is not in the method. The classical longevity calculations are separate and far more involved.
How is this different from Shadbala?
Shadbala measures a planet's overall strength six different ways. Ashtakvarga measures how well it performs in each sign. Different questions, and they are often confused.
Does my birth time need to be exact?
Less than for most readings, because ashtakvarga is counted from signs rather than degrees. It matters only when a planet or your ascendant sits within about a degree of a sign boundary - and this page flags that if it happens in your chart.
What is included free?
All twelve houses with their counts, all seven tables, the 337 check, today's transits against your own bindus, Kaksha, the reductions, and what the method cannot tell you.
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Every AstroMool reading is generated from your exact birth chart using the Swiss Ephemeris and classical Parashari & Jaimini principles, then reviewed for accuracy — no generic templates, no guesswork. Last updated: 12 Oct 2026

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