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How a reading is made

Cosmic Chemistry is Vedic astrology you can check. We read your whole birth chart: its planets, houses and signs. For career, love, money and home, we read the house that governs each one from what the classical books hold, then count the years your chart points to. This page shows how.

What is the method based on?

The method comes from the classical texts of Vedic astrology, above all Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, Phaladeepika, Jataka Parijata and Uttara Kalamrita. Classical astrology gives each planet its own part of a person’s life:

Rahu and Ketu, the two shadow planets, have no part of their own. Classical astrologers read them through the planet they sit with, or the house they are in. Every reading starts from these.

Every link in a reading is checked against the classical texts before it reaches you. What you read is not a list of references. It is what we found in your chart, and how we arrived at it.

How is a reading made?

  1. We calculate your chart. We work out where the nine planets stood when you were born. That means the seven visible planets, plus Rahu and Ketu, the two points where the Moon’s path crosses the Sun’s. We use the sidereal zodiac (Lahiri), which counts the signs by the stars, with whole-sign houses. Our positions match the standard Swiss Ephemeris to within a small fraction of a degree. This places each planet in a sign, a house and a nakshatra, one of the 27 lunar mansions. How we calculate your kundli sets out every step.
  2. We read each area from its house. Career is read from the 10th house, love and marriage from the 7th, money from the 2nd and 11th, and home from the 4th. For each one, we look at the sign on the house, the planets in it, the planet that rules it and where that planet sits, and the planets that look at it.
  3. We add the classical rule for that area. For example, the classical books read the kind of work a person earns from by the small slice of the sign (the navamsa) where the ruler of the 10th house sits. When a line is our own reading and not a classical rule, we say so.
  4. You check it against your own life. Every chapter has a short list of tendencies to tick. Keep what fits, and leave what doesn’t.
  5. We count your dates openly. Each area has three or four signs from the classical books, such as the period (dasha) of the planet that rules the house, or Jupiter crossing a good place from your Moon. We check every day of the next ten years and show the windows where the signs line up, with how many are active. A window is worded as a tendency, never as a promise.

How accurate is it?

The houses move about every two hours, so a reading needs your birth time. The period dates move with it too, and your reading tells you how many days each date shifts for every minute your birth time is out. Use the time on your birth certificate if you can.

Before any change to the reading goes live, we run it on 240 different birth charts and check every line: nothing left blank, and nothing that breaks our own rules.

A reading describes tendencies, not predictions. It shows what a chart leans toward, in statements you can check. It never says what will happen to you.

What we will never do

See a complete sample reading, in four chapters: career, love, money and home.

Why we built Cosmic Chemistry, in the founder’s words.

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