Life PeriodsJYOTISH RESEARCH ARCHIVE

A GUIDE TO YOUR FIRST VISIT

How to read your Life Periods.

Find the right details in your chart, look up your combination, and learn what the recorded events can tell you.

01. Check the details on your birth chart.

Your birth date, exact time and place are used to establish the Moon’s position and the planetary periods active at birth. An accurate time is important in the author’s method.

The trial calculator can work from your birth details. Search for your city and select the right place so we can apply the timezone in effect when you were born. It uses Lahiri settings and is labelled as a trial.

02. Find three things in your chart.

Look for the Moon, sometimes labeled Mo or Chandra. Beside it, find your Janma Nakshatra and the three Vimshottari periods at birth.

Source chart showing Moon in Leo at 8 degrees 9 minutes 47 seconds, Magha, Ketu–Jupiter–Mercury
The author’s supplied example: Mo in Leo, Magha, KE–JU–ME. This is an instructional chart, not your calculated result.

Use the full planet names in our form. The shorthand is retained in results for anyone who prefers it.

Parashara’s Light dasha settings example with Vimshottari, three levels and Moon selected
Source illustration: Vimshottari, three period levels, based on the Moon. Other settings still require confirmation before automatic calculations launch.

03. Read the observations in context.

Exact matches share your current nakshatra group and all three birth periods. Broader matches share the first two periods but have a different third period. They are shown in separate views.

Ages belong to the original research subjects. When you supply a birth date, the app projects those ages onto your calendar as approximate dates. A year-and-month source never becomes an exact-day prediction.

If a combination is missing, that is a gap in the archive. It does not imply anything about your life.

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