A NativeAstro report has two halves. The first is the reading: prose, written for you, that interprets your chart. The second is the Calculations: raw tables, printed so that nothing the reading says has to be taken on trust. This page is the map of that second half — what each table is, what the words in it mean, and which article to read next.
One rule ties the two halves together. The reading never quotes a number. When prose and table are kept apart, the prose has to argue from the chart rather than hide behind a score, and the table stays a record you can check. That separation is deliberate.
The chart record
The first table fixes the ground the whole chart stands on: birth date, clock time, the place reduced to latitude and longitude, and the ayanamsha — the precession offset that turns tropical sky positions into sidereal signs. It also prints the time source and precision you declared, so a chart built from a remembered time is labelled as such.
- How your chart is calculated walks the whole pipeline, from coordinates to the printed degree.
- The Pushya Paksha ayanamsha explains the offset choice and why it is not Lāhiri.
- Why not Lāhiri? compares the alternatives directly.
- Birth-time rectification covers a time that had to be found rather than remembered — and why we no longer sell that as a service.
The key metrics
The reading opens with a short summary of the numbers an astrologer would look at first, before any prose:
- Ascendant — the rising degree, its sign and lunar mansion. This is the chart's starting point, not the Sun sign. The rising sign.
- Sun and Moon — the two luminaries with sign, degree and mansion. The nine planets introduces both.
- Ascendant lord — which planet rules the rising sign, where it sits, and how dignified it is there. This one line tells an astrologer more about the chart than any other. House lords.
- The Moon's mansion lord — the planet that owns the nakshatra the Moon occupies; the classical significator of the mind's own ruler. The 27 lunar mansions.
- The running period — the full chain, mahādaśā → antar-daśā → pratyantar-daśā and below, with its dates; for a life with a recorded end, the chain at birth and at the end as well. How to read a dasha.
Planetary positions
One row per body — the nine planets, and the Ascendant. Across the row: the sign, the exact degree inside it, the lunar mansion (nakshatra) and its pada (quarter), the mansion's lord, the sign's lord, the planet's dignity, and the house it occupies. Two states are marked where they apply: retrograde (moving backwards from the earth's view) and combustion (too close to the Sun to function cleanly).
- Dignity is the label for how comfortably a planet sits where it does — exaltation, own sign, debilitation and the rest. Planetary dignity defines each label.
- Retrograde motion has its own treatment: retrograde planets, and for the slow planets specifically retrograde Mercury through retrograde Saturn.
- Combustion is the "planetary war" condition: combustion.
- The mansion layer, placement by placement, is the lunar mansions index.
House signs and their rulers
Twelve rows, one per house: which sign falls on the house, which planet rules that sign, where the ruler itself sits, and how dignified it is there. This table is the backbone of house reading, because a house is never judged from its occupant alone — the condition of its lord matters at least as much.
- House lords is the guiding article, with a page for each of the 144 lord-in-house placements.
- The twelve houses says what each arena of life covers; the twelve houses in practice reads them as a life story.
- Whole-sign houses explains the house system this report uses, and why a house here is always a whole sign.
Sensitive points
The traditional points that are not planets: the special lagnas, the shadowy upagrahas such as Maandi and Gulika, and the derived sphutas including the Bhrigu Bindu. They are calculated from the planets and the clock, and each one is read only in its own narrow context. Sensitive points is the full account, and Gulika takes the best-known of them on its own.
Divisional charts
The birth chart is one layer of sixteen. This section prints the divisional charts the tradition uses — the Navāṃśa (D9) for marriage and inner strength, the Daśāṃśa (D10) for career, the Saptāṃśa (D7) for children, and the rest — followed by the plate of Arudha padas, the reflected image of each house, drawn together on one wheel.
- Divisional charts explains what each division is read for.
- The Navāṃśa covers the most-used one in detail; the D10, the D7, the D6 and the D60 have their own pages.
- Arudha padas explains the reflected houses, and the Arudha lagna the chart's public image.
Vimśottarī Daśā
The timing system: a 120-year sequence of planetary periods, from the mahādaśā down through the antar-daśā and pratyantar-daśā. The table prints the whole schedule for the life, with the running period highlighted.
- How to read a dasha is the practical guide.
- Dasha at birth explains how the clock starts.
- The 120-year clock is the system itself.
- When the running period feels like the whole story, read beyond Vimśottarī.
Transits
Where the planets are now, measured from your birth Moon and Ascendant — the gochara layer. Transits are only ever read alongside the running period, never alone. Transits and dashas shows how the two are weighed together.
The extended reference tables
A final group of tables, each answering one question:
- Birth-time sensitivity — how far your declared time window would move each division, so no placement is stated as fact when a minute of clock could shift it.
- Navāṃśa (D9) — the marriage-and-inner chart in its own table.
- Aṣṭakavarga (sign strength) — a classical point count per sign, printed with the band that makes the number meaningful, and the Ascendant's own count in a separate column. Sign strength explains the whole grid.
- Yogas — the named classical combinations this chart actually satisfies, with the rule each one met. What yogas are, then the individual yogas from Rāja yogas to Kemadruma.
- Planetary aspects — the sign-based gazes between planets. Planetary aspects defines the rules; interpreting aspects shows how to read them.
- Chara kārakas — the eight variable significators, ranked by degree inside their sign, the soul's Ātmakāraka first. This is the Jaimini method's contribution to the report, and it is one row of numbers, not a separate reading. Chara karakas.
- The order moment (Prāśna) — cast only when a reading was ordered for the person asking, never for a third party. Prāśna explains why.
- Longevity — computed only for a life with a recorded end, and labelled retrospective even then. Longevity sets out the classical factors.
Panchanga
The five limbs of the birth moment — weekday, lunar day, lunar mansion, yoga and karana — printed as the day's own quality. Panchanga explains each limb, and the lunar month sets the calendar those limbs belong to.
The order that works
Read the interpretation first, from start to finish, the way you would read an essay. Then treat the Calculations as a look-up: a claim in the prose that you want to see the evidence for is one table away. The reverse order turns a reading into a spreadsheet, and the numbers will tell you nothing without the interpretation they belong to.
What the calculations are not
They are not a prediction, and they are not personal. Given the same birth data, the engine prints the same tables for everyone — that determinism is exactly why they can be published and checked. The interpretation is where judgment enters, and it is honest to keep the two labelled.
How to Find This in Your Chart
- Open a report and scroll past the reading to the Calculations heading, or open the free Calculations page in your dashboard for the same tables without a purchase.
- Use this page as the index: find the table in the report, read its entry here, then follow the link that article gives for the deeper treatment.
- When a table number and the prose seem to disagree, trust the table for what it records and the prose for what it means — the two are meant to be read together, not against each other.
- Recalculate the same birth data on a different day if you want to confirm it: the tables will not move, because the calculation is fixed.