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Choosing
Which service answers which question
Eight cards is a menu, not an answer. Most people arrive with a situation rather than a service in mind, so here is the mapping in the other direction — from the question you actually have to the page that deals with it. Nearly every entry has a free calculator attached, and it is usually worth running that before paying anybody.
- “I want to understand my chart as a whole.” Start with your kundli and the birth chart drawing, then read the house and planet references for whatever the chart puts in front of you. A consultation is far more useful once you can name what you are looking at.
- “Should these two people marry?” This is the most common reason people come to Jyotish in India. The tradition scores it through Guna Milan, and you can run that yourself with the kundli matching calculator or read the longer treatment on compatibility and nakshatra matching. A score on its own settles nothing, which is exactly the point at which talking to a practitioner starts to earn its fee.
- “When should we do this?” Muhurta is the branch of the tradition that answers timing questions. Look at muhurat for the occasion, at today's panchang for the tithi and nakshatra, and at the choghadiya and shubh muhurat tools for the divisions of a particular day.
- “What period of life am I in?” Classical Jyotish answers this through the Vimshottari dasha, and the dasha calculator will tell you which planetary period and sub-period your birth details fall in. The Sade Sati checker covers the Saturn transit the tradition pays most attention to.
- “Something about this house or office feels wrong.” That is Vastu, and we keep room-by-room pages for the home, the kitchen, the bedroom and the office because the prescriptions differ by room rather than by building.
- “What should we name the baby?” The tradition commonly draws the first syllable from the birth nakshatra, so start at baby names by nakshatra or the name finder, and use name numerology if you also want the numerological reading of a shortlist.
- “Should I wear a stone?” Read gemstones first, and take the gem recommendation as a starting point rather than a prescription. Gemstones are the single easiest place in astrology for a seeker to be sold something expensive on thin reasoning, which is why the pages set out which tradition a recommendation comes from and why a practitioner should be able to explain the reasoning before you buy anything.
- “We want a ceremony performed.” That is not a consultation. Go to puja for the ritual catalogue, or to pandit booking if you need a pandit for a sanskar — a wedding, a griha pravesh, a naamkaran, a shradh.
- “I just want a view on one decision, now.” Open a session from the directory. If you would rather have a card reading than a chart reading, tarot has a single-question draw and a daily card.
If your situation spans two of these, take them in the order the tradition would: the chart first, the timing second, the remedy last. A muhurat is only meaningful for an event you have already decided to hold, and a remedy only makes sense once somebody has identified what it is meant to address. Working backwards from a remedy — starting with a stone you have heard about and looking for a reason to wear it — is how people end up spending money on the wrong thing.
Free first
What costs nothing, and what a fee is actually for
Every calculator in our tools collection runs the arithmetic in your own browser and sends nothing to us. There is no account, no birth date traded for a result, and no report emailed to you later. That covers a surprising amount of what people pay for elsewhere: your lagna, your Moon's sign and nakshatra, the dasha period you are in, a Guna Milan score, a Mangal Dosha check, a muhurat for a given day. As our editorial policy discloses, the computation uses a Lahiri-type ayanamsa over positions checked against NASA/JPL’s DE421 ephemeris.
What a fee buys is judgement, and it is worth being precise about the difference. A calculator can tell you that a particular planetary period begins next year. It cannot weigh that against the other two things happening in your chart, the specific decision in front of you, and the fact that you have already turned down one offer. That weighing is what a trained practitioner does, and it is the only thing here that is genuinely worth paying for.
Two different ways to pay
Consultations are charged by the minute. You keep a prepaid balance in your wallet, the rate is the one printed on the practitioner's profile in the directory — rates differ from one practitioner to the next — and you end the session when you are done. Our Terms of Service require the balance to be there before the session starts. Nothing recurs and there is no package to commit to.
Ceremonies are priced per ritual instead, because a puja has a duration, a place and materials. Those figures are listed against each ritual on the puja pages along with what each one covers. The figure on the cards above is an indicative starting point for the category; the number that actually applies to you is the one on the profile or the ritual page you book from, and if the two ever disagree, the booking page wins and we would like to hear about it through our contact page.
Bring three things to any of it
Whichever service you choose, a chart cannot be cast without a birth date, a birth time and a birth place, and the time is the one that decides most of the reading — in Jyotish the lagna is the degree rising on the eastern horizon at the moment of birth, and since the whole zodiac passes that horizon in about a day, a new sign comes up roughly every two hours. A guessed time produces a confident reading of somebody else's chart. Our preparation guide sets out where to find a recorded time and what to do if there genuinely is not one.
What none of these services covers
Our Terms of Service state that a consultation on this platform is for guidance and is not a substitute for licensed medical, legal, financial or psychological advice, and that the astrologers here are independent practitioners whose readings we do not guarantee the accuracy of. A question that is really a medical, legal or financial one should go to the professional it belongs to, and a practitioner here is expected to say so rather than take the minutes. If you want to know how we establish that a practitioner is who they say they are before any of this begins, that is set out on how we verify.
Provenance
These services are not all one tradition
It is common for a site like this to file everything under one word and let the reader assume it all comes from the same place. It does not. The disciplines above have different sources, different ages and different degrees of internal agreement, and knowing which is which tells you how much weight a given reading is carrying.
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Jyotish is the astrological tradition of the Sanskrit texts, and the classical works our editorial policy names — the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, Phaladeepika, Saravali, the Jaimini Sutras — are the sources our reference pages cite. It is the deepest and most codified body of material here, and also the one where different schools most visibly disagree with each other.
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Vastu Shastra is a separate discipline concerned with the layout and orientation of buildings, which the tradition transmits through its own architectural texts rather than through the astrological ones. A Jyotishi is not automatically a Vastu consultant, and a practitioner here should say which of the two they trained in.
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Numerology as practised in India works from the birth date and the name; the tradition calls the date-derived figure the moolank and its companion the bhagyank, and you can compute both on our numerology pages. It is a much smaller system than Jyotish, and reasonable practitioners treat it as a supplement to a chart rather than a replacement for one.
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Tarot is not an Indian tradition at all. The deck and the meanings attached to its cards come out of late-medieval and early-modern Europe, and the reading method has no connection to a birth chart. We keep it on the site because people ask for it, and we would rather say plainly where it comes from than let it borrow the authority of the Sanskrit material sitting next to it.
The practical consequence is worth stating: if two practitioners give you different answers, the explanation is often that they are working in different systems, or in different schools within Jyotish. That is a feature of a living interpretive tradition, not a defect you should try to resolve by collecting more readings until one of them agrees with you.
Before you pay
Questions worth asking any practitioner
These apply here and they apply anywhere else you consult. Asking them costs you a minute and tells you most of what you need to know about who you are talking to.
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Which system are you reading my chart in? A practitioner who cannot name one, or who bristles at the question, is a practitioner whose reasoning you will not be able to follow.
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Which placement in my chart are you drawing that from? The answer should point at something specific — a planet, a house, a period — that you can look up afterwards on our planet and house pages.
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What would change your reading? Someone whose interpretation no possible fact could alter is not interpreting.
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Is this a question astrology should be answering? A good practitioner will send a medical, legal or financial question to the professional it belongs to, and will do it early rather than after the meter has run.
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What does the remedy cost, and who sells it? If a suggested remedy requires buying something, ask who supplies it before you agree to anything. Pressure to buy quickly, or a warning about what happens if you do not, is the clearest signal in this industry that you are being sold to rather than advised. Our verification page explains how to report it if that happens in a session here.
And one for yourself before you open any session: write down the actual decision you are facing in a single sentence. Most sessions that leave people unsatisfied were sessions that never got round to the question, because the question was never put into words. “Will things get better?” has no answer anyone can act on. “I have been offered a transfer to another city in November and I cannot decide” does, and it tells the practitioner which part of the chart to look at.
It also helps to know in advance what you will do with a discouraging answer. People who go in having already decided, and who are looking for permission, tend to keep buying minutes until they get it. One considered session that you sit with for a week is worth more than four in an afternoon. The consultation guide covers the practical mechanics end to end, and the refund policy sets out the grounds and the windows for a refund request in full, so we have not paraphrased them here — there should only be one version of a rule like that.