Do you know any websites where I can calculate my Vedic chart with explanations? Thank you
Hi there. So I found one that worked (https://www.astromitra.com). Its interpretations are pretty generic, and follows sidereal rather than tropical astrology – as most Vedic sites do. You won’t receive an Indian chart or a listing of Dashas (life periods ruled by different planets) or other charts like the Navamsa (mid-life/soul/partnership chart), rather this site gives a western-style character reading with a Vedic perspective.
Because this is a sidereal reading, your placements will change house and sign. Sidereal signs and houses never resonate with me – but perhaps will with you?
I found Astromita’s Vedic analysis of the character of planets (Grahas) really accurate for an online site. The positions of planets in relationship to one another are foundational to both western and vedic astrology, but branches of vedic astrology tend to count house distances from individual planets to make predictions (e.g, Saturn aspects 3 houses from itself in either direction).
If you get your reading, and you want to know more about your sidereal chart, a good place to start is to watch KRS on youtube. He lives in the states but comes from a Parahsara (branch of Vedic astrology) tradition learned from his family. Lots of Indian fatalism peppered throughout. Again, for me, the sidereal interpretations ring somewhat accurate, but not quite like tropical placements. It’s an interesting tension. There you can also learn about a variety of planetary yogas (aspects and their predictive outcomes) per the Parashara school.
To calculate your moon’s sidereal Nakshatra, you can visit prokerala. You can also get a pretty North or South Indian chart. Finding Nakshatra interpretations is not easy, but there are lots of YouTube videos. KRS gets into the specific padas your Nakshatras fall into. I prefer going to vaultoftheheavens.com to get my tropical placements and then watching KRS’s videos.
That all said, nothing has been as useful to me as reading and watching Vic DiCara’s Nakshatra books and videos, who also follows tropical placements. He has studied the Vedas in their original language and adopts astrological interpretations based upon their original meaning. I deeply appreciate his Western psychological approach to the wisdom of the Vedas and their application to astrology. Look up his corresponding videos on either your sidereal or tropical Nakshatras, and you are sure to learn a ton about yourself.
Is all of this useful or just overwhelming? I could just give you my opinion about what I think works in Vedic, but I don’t want to push my own agenda because so many people follow the sidereal school of thought. Part of the fun is deciding what is true for yourself. Good luck!
