Jyotish · HoraExplainer
The birth chart, house by house
What a kundli is, how it is drawn in North and South Indian styles, and what each of the twelve houses is traditionally said to represent.
8 min read · 11 October 2026
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Jyotish · Hora
Plain-language pieces on the Vedic sciences, written and reviewed by the School’s faculty. Every Sanskrit word is glossed the first time it appears.
7 articles
- Jyotish · Hora
Grahas are not planets: the nine "seizers"
Why Jyotish counts the Sun, the Moon and two invisible points among its nine grahas, and what the word actually means.
7 min read · 10 October 2026
- Jyotish · HoraExplainer
Houses and signs: the difference every beginner misses
Twelve signs, twelve houses, and why they are not the same twelve. A plain explanation of the two frames in every kundli.
7 min read · 9 October 2026
- Jyotish · HoraExplainer
Vimshottari dasha: time, divided
A 120-year cycle of nine periods, started from the Moon's nakshatra at birth. How the system is built and how to read its arithmetic.
7 min read · 8 October 2026
- Jyotish · HoraExplainer
Transits (gochar) and what Sade Sati is
How the tradition reads the present sky against the birth chart, and a calm explanation of the seven and a half years of Saturn.
7 min read · 7 October 2026
- Jyotish · Hora
Space and Time: the two components of prediction
How the classical tradition separates what a chart shows from when it is said to unfold, and why that framework organises everything a student learns.
8 min read · 4 October 2026
- Jyotish · Hora
South, North and East Indian charts: one sky, three drawings
The three regional ways of drawing a birth chart hold the same information. How each is laid out, how to convert between them, and what each makes easy to see.
8 min read · 22 September 2026