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The Individual Chart is where every Jyoti Guide session begins. You enter a person’s birth details, and the engine returns a complete sidereal natal chart with positions, dignities, house lords, aspects, and five analytical panels ready to layer on. Whether you are new to Vedic astrology or a practicing reader, this page walks you through every element — from the birth-data form to the export menu.

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Entering birth data

The form asks for a birth place, date, and time. The name field is optional — it only labels the output.

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Choosing a place

You have two ways to set the birth location.
Type a city name (for example, Mumbai) into the place field and select from the suggestions. Each result shows its coordinates and time zone. Selecting one fills all three values automatically, and a confirmation line appears:
Using 19.0728°N, 72.8826°E · timezone Asia/Kolkata
This is the fastest option for well-known cities and towns.

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Setting the date and time

Enter the day, month, and year, then type the local clock time as it read at the birthplace. Jyoti Guide converts this to universal time using the selected time zone. For the sidereal mechanics that follow, see The sidereal sky.

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Choosing the ayanāṁśa

The Ayanāṁśa selector above the result offers three values: Raman, Lahiri (the default), and Pushya. Changing the selection re-fetches the entire chart, because the ayanāṁśa shifts every sidereal longitude together. Leave it on Lahiri unless you work in a lineage that uses a different value. Full detail is in Ayanāṁśa options.

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Reading the chart diagram

Jyoti Guide draws the chart in two traditional styles. Both encode identical data — choose whichever you read more fluently.
In the North Indian layout the houses never move. The 1st house is always the top-centre diamond, and you read counter-clockwise around the figure. The small number printed inside each house is its sign; planets are written in the house they occupy.This style makes it easy to track house-to-house relationships at a glance because the geometry is fixed.

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The Planets table

The Planets table is the most-referenced section of the chart. Each row gives one body’s complete sidereal address.
ColumnWhat it tells you
PlanetThe body — Lagna, the seven classical planets, and Rāhu / Ketu.
HouseThe life area the body occupies (see Bhāvas).
Sign / RāśiThe sidereal sign, with its Sanskrit name.
DegreeExact position, e.g. 25°43′28″.
Nakṣatra · PadaLunar mansion and quarter — the driver of the daśā sequence and the D9 chart.
StatusDignity flags: Exalted, Debilitated, or Own sign.
A sample table output looks like this: 
Lagna    1st   Cancer / Karka       17°06′40″   Ashlesha · 1      —
Sun      11th  Taurus / Vrishabha   16°30′36″   Rohini · 2        —
Moon      5th  Scorpio / Vrischika  25°43′28″   Jyeshtha · 3      DEBILITATED
Mars     10th  Aries / Mesha        15°41′10″   Bharani · 1       OWN SIGN
Mercury  12th  Gemini / Mithuna      5°16′50″   Mrigashirsha · 4  OWN SIGN
Saturn    9th  Pisces / Meena       18°02′03″   Revati · 1        —
Rahu      8th  Aquarius / Kumbha     9°56′10″   Shatabhisha · 1   —
Ketu      2nd  Leo / Simha           9°56′10″   Magha · 3         —
The headline reading comes quickly: a Cancer Lagna, the Moon debilitated in Scorpio, but Mars and Mercury in their own signs — two significant strengths counterbalancing a notable weakness, all visible before you open any analysis panel.

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House lords, aspects, and combustion

Below the Planets table, the Relationships & strengths section makes the chart’s structure explicit. These concepts are explained in Bhāvas & aspects; in the app they appear as three blocks:
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House lords

Each house’s ruling planet and where it currently sits — for example, 1st lord Moon is in the 5th house. This is the starting point for judging how each life area is connected.
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Aspects (Parāśarī)

What each planet aspects and which planets aspect it — for example, Jupiter from 12th → 4th · 6th · 8th. Both the Aspects and Aspected by views are shown.
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Combustion

Each planet’s distance from the Sun and whether it is considered burnt (combust). If no planet qualifies, the section simply reads None combust.

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Sharing and exporting

The action row below the chart gives you several ways to save or share a result.
ActionProduces
Copy share linkA URL that reopens this exact chart — same birth data, ayanāṁśa, and panel state.
Offline copyA self-contained copy you can keep without the app being online.
Full report (PDF)A complete, printable reading with chart, tables, strengths, and periods.
Copy chartA clean Markdown summary — metadata, house table, dignities, house lords, aspects, combustion, the D9, Vimśottarī daśā, Shadbala, Ashtakavarga, and Gochara. Ideal for pasting into notes or sharing with another reader.
Open in GPTHands the chart’s full data to an AI assistant for a conversational interpretation.
See Exports & sharing for the exact contents of each format.

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The five analytical panels

Switch on any of the five panels above the chart to layer deeper analysis onto the natal positions. Each panel has its own dedicated guide:

Vimśottarī Daśā

The life-period timeline — which planet is on stage and when each chapter begins and ends.

Gochara

Current transits overlaid on your natal chart, read from both Lagna and Moon.

Tājaka

The solar-return chart for a single year, with its own yogas and short daśās.

Shadbala

Six-fold planetary strength — a quantitative measure of each body’s power.

Ashtakavarga

Benefic-point maps that support transit timing and sign strength analysis.
For a power-user layout with all sixteen divisional charts visible alongside every panel at once, open The Workbench from the button next to the chart title.