Today's Horoscope for All 12 Zodiac Signs

Today's reading for each of the twelve rashis lives on that sign's own page, where it is generated against the current date rather than written once and left standing. The table below takes you straight to whichever of the twelve you want. Everything after it is the part that does not change from day to day: which graha rules your sign, which number and weekday follow from that ruler, and what a daily horoscope can and cannot honestly tell you.

This page is dated, and the date on it is the day it was published. That matters more than it sounds. A great many “today's horoscope” pages are a single set of paragraphs written months ago and served unchanged every morning, with the word today doing the work that a calculation should be doing. We used to be one of them: the twelve predictions that stood here until recently named specific aspects — Mars favourably aspecting Jupiter, Saturn combining with Rahu — that were true of no particular day at all. They have been removed rather than rewritten, because there is no way to write them once and have them be true tomorrow.

All Twelve Signs: Where to Read Today's Rashifal

The dates in that table are the tropical ones, because they are what most readers recognise. Jyotish is sidereal and its boundaries fall roughly three weeks later — the Sun does not enter sidereal Mesha until about 14 April, not 21 March. Both sets are given on each sign's page. If the tropical and sidereal answers differ for your birthday, the sidereal one is the sign a Vedic reading will use, and our sun sign calculator will tell you which is which.

Where Your Sign's Number and Day Come From

The number and weekday in that table are not editorial choices, which is why they can be printed with confidence while a prediction cannot. Each graha owns a number and a day of the week — the Sun 1 and Sunday, the Moon 2 and Monday, Mars 9 and Tuesday, Mercury 5 and Wednesday, Jupiter 3 and Thursday, Venus 6 and Friday, Saturn 8 and Saturday. A rashi inherits both from whichever graha rules it. That is the whole derivation, and it has two consequences you can check against the table above.

First, the twelve signs carry only 7 distinct numbers between them, because 7 grahas own the twelve rashis and 5 of them own two apiece. Signs sharing a ruler therefore share a number, without exception: Aries and Scorpio under Mars, both 9; Taurus and Libra under Venus, both 6; Gemini and Virgo under Mercury, both 5; Sagittarius and Pisces under Jupiter, both 3; Capricorn and Aquarius under Saturn, both 8. If you find a page that gives two signs with the same ruler two different lucky numbers, it has typed them rather than derived them, and the pair is the fastest way to catch it.

Second, no sign carries 4 or 7. Those two numbers belong to Rahu and Ketu, and the nodes own no rashi in the classical scheme — they are shadow points on the ecliptic, not planets with territory. A sign can only inherit a number from a graha that owns it, so 4 and 7 never appear in this column. Ours used to, on three of the twelve rows. If a horoscope hands your sign one of them, it has borrowed a co-lordship the derivation does not carry.

The same reasoning is why you will not see Uranus, Neptune or Pluto named in the ruler column. Jyotish works with nine grahas, and none of those three was known to the tradition — they were discovered in 1781, 1846 and 1930. Western astrology assigns them as co-rulers of Aquarius, Pisces and Scorpio, and that is a perfectly real Western reading, but it is not the Vedic one, and a Vedic page should not quietly serve it. Each sign's page records the Western co-ruler separately, labelled as such.

What Actually Changes From Day to Day

If the ruler, the number and the day are fixed, what is left for a daily reading to say? Four things, and they move at very different speeds. The Moon changes rashi roughly every two and a quarter days and changes nakshatra faster still, which is why it carries most of the daily texture. The tithi and the weekday deity turn over each day. The faster grahas — Mercury, Venus, the Sun — shift sign over weeks. Jupiter and Saturn take a year and two and a half years respectively, so they set the background rather than the day.

A daily rashifal is an account of where those bodies are relative to your rashi, and that is a calculation with an answer. What it is not is a forecast of outcomes. You will find sites willing to tell you that today's financial decisions carry long-term benefits, that a legal matter resolves in your favour, that gains from an unexpected source are coming. We took three sentences of exactly that kind off this page. Nothing in the transit of a graha licenses a claim about how a specific contract or court date turns out, and the tradition itself is more careful than that: a Jyotishi reads a transit as a tendency, not a result.

Read your sign's page for the position, then, and treat the interpretation as one input among several. Our daily panchang gives the tithi, nakshatra and yoga for the date directly if you would rather read the raw figures, and the horoscope section carries the weekly, monthly and yearly views for each sign.

Read Your Moon Sign, Not Just Your Sun Sign

This is the single change that makes the most difference to how useful a daily reading feels, and almost nobody makes it. Sun sign horoscopes are a Western convention. Vedic astrology reads the daily rashifal from the Moon sign — Chandra Rashi, the sign the Moon occupied at your birth — because the Moon governs the mind and the emotions, which is the register a daily reading actually operates in. The two signs coincide for roughly one person in twelve. For everyone else, reading the Sun sign means reading someone else's day.

If you do not know your Moon sign, our free Kundli generator computes it from your birth date, time and place. Your Ascendant, the Lagna, is worth having too: it decides which houses the transiting grahas are moving through, so it changes what a given transit means rather than just how it feels. Sun sign for identity, Moon sign for the daily reading, Lagna for circumstance — in that order of usefulness for a page like this one.

The Traditional Attributions in the Table

Each sign's page also carries a colour alongside the number and the day. These are traditional attributions rather than derivations — the colours associated with each graha are consistent across the classical sources but they are not calculated from anything, so we record them as inherited attributions and say so. The same applies to the per-graha remedies: a sesame oil lamp for Shani, white flowers for Shukra, the Hanuman Chalisa for Mangal. They are what the tradition prescribes, and their value is devotional. We are not going to tell you they change an outcome.

Universal practices are on firmer ground still, because their benefit does not depend on the astrology being right: Surya Namaskar at sunrise, a ghee diya at Sandhya Kaal, the Navagraha Stotra. If you are working with a difficult transit, gemstones and pujas prescribed for your own chart are the traditional route, and our remedies section sets out which graha each one addresses and on what grounds.

Sidereal, Not Tropical: What Makes This Jyotish

Jyotisha is counted among the six Vedangas, the limbs of the Vedas, and its written record is genuinely ancient — the Vedanga Jyotisha is usually placed in the last few centuries BCE, and the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra later than that. You will see “5,000 years” quoted for it constantly, including on the page that stood here before this one. We have taken it out. Nobody can source the figure, and the tradition does not need it.

What does distinguish Jyotish from tropical Western astrology is a measurable thing: the zodiac it uses. Vedic calculation is sidereal, fixed against the stars, so it subtracts the ayanamsa — currently a little over 24 degrees — to account for the precession of the equinoxes. That is why the sign boundaries fall about three weeks later than the Western ones, and it is a real difference in the arithmetic rather than a difference in interpretation. It does not, on its own, make either system more predictive. It makes them answer about different slices of sky, which is worth understanding before you decide the two disagree about you.