Read the North Indian chart
Learn where each house sits and read its sign.
- 5-minute lesson
- Basic course: Jyotish Shishya
- Vedic astrology
- The houses never move
- The numbers are signs
- Reading any house
A first look at the lesson
In the North Indian chart the shape is fixed. The top centre diamond is always the 1st house. The houses then run anticlockwise: the 2nd at the top left, the 3rd below it, the 4th in the left diamond, and so on.
The small number in each house is a sign number: Aries 1, Taurus 2, and so on to Pisces 12. Asha's 1st house shows 10 because Capricorn is the 10th sign.
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More lessons on this subject
- The birth chart (D1)A birth chart is the sky held still at the moment and place of birth: houses, signs and grahas.
- North, South and East Indian chartsOne chart, three drawings: houses fixed in the North; signs fixed in the South and East.
- Lagna chart and Moon chartThe same grahas counted from the Moon: the Moon chart, read beside the Lagna chart.
- Divisional charts: D9 and D10Cut every sign into equal parts and a new chart appears: the navamsha (D9) and the dashamsha (D10).
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