How to read your kundli.
Reading a kundli is mostly knowing where to look. Three steps and the diagram stops looking like a maze.
1. The grid is the sky.
Whether you're looking at a North Indian diamond or a South Indian square, the chart is just twelve boxes. Each box is one of twelve houses — a domain of life: self, money, courage, home, creativity, service, partnership, depths, fortune, career, gains, release. The pattern repeats for every chart ever cast.
2. The gold box is you.
Find the highlighted box marked Asc — that's your Lagna, your 1st house. Everything counts from there. House 2 is the next box (going counter-clockwise in North Indian, around the ring in South Indian), house 3 the one after, and so on through 12.
3. The letters are planets.
Each letter pair (Su, Mo, Ma, Me, Ju, Ve, Sa, Ra, Ke) is one of the nine Navagraha sitting in the house it occupied at your birth. A small R after a planet means retrograde. The Guided mode legend below the chart decodes every letter and tells you what life-area each house rules.
Where to look first.
Start with your Lagna — its sign sets your default vibe and rules the manager of your whole chart. Then your Moon sign (Rashi) — your emotional weather. Then your nakshatra — the finer-grained Moon detail. Those four answers cover about 80% of what a beginner wants to know about themselves.
Toggle the Guided / Pro switch at the top of your chart to flip between plain English and technical details.