Janam Kundli by Date of Birth — Your Complete 2026 Birth Chart Analysis

A janam kundli by date of birth is the map of the sky at the exact minute you were born, drawn from your date, time and place of birth. It fixes your ascendant (lagna), your Moon sign (rashi), your birth star (nakshatra) and the house that every planet occupies. A kundli by date of birth and time is also called a janam patrika or birth chart. Everything a Vedic astrologer reads later - your nature, career, marriage, health, money and timing - comes from this one chart, which is why getting the chart right matters more than any prediction written on top of it.

AstroMool calculates your janam kundli by date of birth with the Swiss Ephemeris and the Lahiri ayanamsha, the standard used by the Indian government's ephemeris. Planet positions are accurate to a few thousandths of a degree, and every figure in your report can be checked against any professional software set to the same options.

Your free janam kundli is drawn in the North Indian style: a square split into twelve diamonds and triangles, one for each house. The top centre diamond is always the first house, your lagna, and the houses run anticlockwise from there. The number written in each house is the zodiac sign that sits in it - 1 for Aries, 2 for Taurus and so on up to 12 for Pisces - and the planets are written beside that number. Once you know which house stands for which part of life, you can follow the outline of any birth chart analysis yourself.

Three groups are worth remembering. The 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th houses (kendras) are the pillars of the chart: planets here act strongly and visibly. The 1st, 5th and 9th (trikonas) are the houses of luck and merit, and a planet that rules both a kendra and a trikona often forms a raj yoga. The 6th, 8th and 12th (dusthanas) bring struggle, but they are not simply bad - a strong 6th house wins competitions, and a strong 12th house often shows a life abroad.

A house is never read alone. A careful birth chart analysis looks at three things together: the sign in the house, the planets sitting in it, and where the lord of that house has gone. A 7th house with no planets is not empty for marriage - its lord, placed elsewhere, still carries the story. That is why the full report reads every house from the lagna, from the Moon and from the house lord, and checks the bhava chalit chart wherever a planet sits close to the edge of a house.

Before any prediction, three facts from your janam kundli by date of birth decide how everything else is read. Every birth chart analysis starts here: get these three right and the rest of the chart falls into place.

If you have read your sun sign in a western horoscope and found it does not match, this is the reason: Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, which today sits about 24 degrees behind the tropical one, and it gives the lagna and the Moon far more weight than the Sun. Your free janam kundli shows all three anchors on the first screen, and it flags gand mool when the Moon falls on a junction nakshatra - you can check that in detail with the gand mool dosh check.

Do not know your exact birth time? Use the closest time you have. Your report includes a birth-time sensitivity page that shows which findings would change if the time were a few minutes off, so you know how far to rely on each answer.

A kundli by date of birth and time is only as good as the time you enter. The planets move slowly - the Sun about one degree a day, Saturn about one degree a month - so a few minutes rarely changes their signs. The lagna is different. It passes through all twelve signs in a day, roughly one sign every two hours and one degree every four minutes, and your houses, house lords, yogas and the timing of events all hang on it.

Divisional charts are more sensitive still. The navamsa (D9), read for marriage and the inner strength of each planet, changes its lagna about every thirteen minutes, and the finer charts used for career or children can change within two or three minutes. That is why the report marks each divisional chart with how safe it is for the time you gave.

Time zone is the other quiet error. Many calculators simply assume India Standard Time, or forget that clocks in the USA, UK and Europe move for daylight saving - a birth in New York in July is four hours behind UTC, not five. AstroMool takes the time zone from the birth place you pick and works out the offset for your exact birth date, so daylight saving and India's 1942-45 war time are both handled. The chart is not drawn until the place is confirmed, which means the free janam kundli you see is built on the right clock time.

If your time is uncertain, use the time on the birth certificate or hospital record rather than a family memory, and if you only know a range, enter the middle of it. Findings that rest on planets and signs - the Moon sign, the nakshatra, most doshas, the order of the dashas - usually stay the same across an hour or more. The kundli report with predictions also carries a birth-time sensitivity page that lists which conclusions would shift if the lagna changed, so you can lean on the stable ones and hold the rest lightly. Even a free janam kundli is worth redoing the day you find a more exact time.

Most kundli reports are written for astrologers. This kundli report with predictions is written for you first: every life area opens with a straight answer, then shows the astrology behind it, and ends with what to do. The astrologer's tables are all there too, collected at the back.

Because the report is a detailed kundli PDF with clickable contents and bookmarks, you can jump straight to the question you care about and come back to the rest later. The detailed kundli PDF stays yours - keep it, print it, or share it with your family astrologer.

A chart shows what is promised; the dasha shows when. The Vimshottari system divides a 120-year cycle among the nine planets in a fixed order: Ketu 7 years, Venus 20, Sun 6, Moon 10, Mars 7, Rahu 18, Jupiter 16, Saturn 19 and Mercury 17. Your first dasha belongs to the lord of your birth nakshatra, and how much of it is left at birth depends on how far the Moon had travelled through that nakshatra - one more reason a janam kundli by date of birth needs the minute, not just the day.

Each mahadasha is split into nine antardashas in the same order, and each of those into pratyantar dashas, so a single month can be traced to three planets working together. A planet gives the results of the houses it owns and occupies: a Venus mahadasha for a Taurus lagna, where Venus rules the 1st and 6th, reads very differently from a Venus mahadasha for a Leo lagna, where it rules the 3rd and 10th.

This is where the kundli report with predictions earns its length. For every mahadasha and antardasha of your life it names the houses that switch on, the likely themes, and the months when the transits of Saturn and Jupiter agree with the dasha - the double confirmation most astrologers wait for before calling an event. Your free janam kundli already shows the period running now; you can explore it further on the antardasha calculator, see the full sequence on the mahadasha calculator, and read the year-by-year Tajika view in the varshphal.

There are three common ways to get a birth chart analysis today. Each has its place, and they compare like this on the points that matter most.

In practice they work best together. Start with the free janam kundli above, and when you need depth, take your detailed kundli PDF to an astrologer you trust: they can skip an hour of calculation and spend the consultation on your actual question, and you can check their reading against the birth chart analysis printed on the page.

A good birth chart analysis should show its working. Every finding in your report carries the rule that produced it and the chart data it used, and each life-area answer states its confidence - high, medium or low - with the number of independent indicators that agree. When indicators disagree, the report says so instead of hiding it.

The report runs on the same engine as all 92 calculators on AstroMool, so a result you see on a calculator page is the same result you read in your kundli. Dasha dates, house positions and guna tables were cross-checked on hundreds of random charts with zero mismatches.

This birth chart analysis is also honest about its limits. It describes tendencies and timing; it does not promise events, and it never tells you that only an expensive ritual can help. That is also why this online kundli with remedies puts free remedies - mantra, charity and conduct - ahead of anything you would have to buy.

This online kundli with remedies is for anyone who wants clear answers from their own chart - a first-time reader who wants a free janam kundli to begin with, a family planning a marriage or a muhurat, or someone who already consults an astrologer and wants the complete birth chart analysis on paper.

Students use the kundli report with predictions to choose a field, working people use it to time a job change, and parents use it to understand a child's nature. Each of them gets the same detailed kundli PDF, and each can read only the part they need.

Unlike a short online kundli with remedies that stops at gemstones, this report explains why each remedy is suggested, which planet it supports and how long to follow it. The birth chart analysis behind every remedy is printed beside it.

If you only want a free kundli by date of birth and time, the result above is yours to keep. When you want the full picture - every area of life, with timing - the detailed kundli PDF is one click away, and your birth chart analysis stays true to the minute you were born.

Many readers ask why a kundli report with predictions runs past 700 pages. Fifty-five areas of life, each read from several angles with its own timing, add up - and the clickable contents and bookmarks make the detailed kundli PDF quick to find your way through.