# Jyoti Guide

## Docs

- [Bhāvas and Aspects: Houses, Lords, and Sight Lines](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/concepts/bhavas-and-aspects.md): Understand the 12 houses, their lords, Parāśarī aspects, and combustion — structural relationships the app surfaces under Relationships & Strengths.
- [Divisional Charts: The Shoḍaśavarga System Explained](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/concepts/divisional-charts.md): Learn what a varga is, how D9 Navāṁśa works, what vargottama means, and where to find all 16 divisional charts inside the Jyoti Guide app.
- [Nakṣatras and Padas: The 27 Sidereal Lunar Mansions](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/concepts/nakshatras-and-padas.md): Explore the 27 sidereal lunar mansions, their 3°20′ padas, daśā lords, and why the Moon's nakṣatra starts the Vimśottarī period system.
- [Rāśis and Grahas: Signs and Planets in Jyotiṣa](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/concepts/rashis-and-grahas.md): A complete reference for the 12 sidereal signs and 9 grahas — their lords, natures, dignities, retrogression, and combustion as shown in Jyoti Guide.
- [How Jyoti Guide Converts a Birth Moment to Sidereal Sky](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/concepts/the-sidereal-sky.md): Learn how the engine converts a birth moment into precise sidereal positions — from clock time through ayanāṁśa subtraction to Lagna and houses.
- [Assessing Ashtakoota Compatibility Beyond the Score](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/examples/assess-a-match.md): A worked Ashtakoota compatibility reading that moves past the headline total — weighting doshas, checking marriage houses, and forming a balanced view.
- [How to Choose an Auspicious Date Using the Panchāng](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/examples/choose-a-date.md): A five-step muhūrta workflow: read a day's five Panchāng limbs, pick the best sub-window, use named time windows, and confirm against your own chart.
- [How to Read a Vedic Birth Chart: A Step-by-Step Guide](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/examples/read-your-chart.md): Walk through a seven-step natal chart reading using the sample Mumbai chart — a repeatable method you can apply to any chart in Jyoti Guide.
- [Timing Events Using Daśā Periods and Gochara Transits](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/examples/time-an-event.md): Learn the five-step workflow for timing life events — from natal promise through daśā activation to transit confirmation and precise nakṣatra triggers.
- [Ashtakavarga: How to Read the Benefic-Point Sign Map](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/guides/ashtakavarga.md): Learn how the Ashtakavarga benefic-point system scores each sign and house, how to read the grid, and how it sharpens your transit interpretations.
- [Couple Compatibility: Read the Kundali Milan Report](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/guides/couple-compatibility.md): Cast a Kundali Milan report, read the Ashtakūṭa score, check Mangal dosha, and assess the marriage houses in both the D1 and D9 charts.
- [Gochara: Reading Transits on Your Vedic Birth Chart](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/guides/gochara-transits.md): Overlay live transits on your natal chart from both Lagna and Moon, read Ashtakavarga bindus, spot Sade Sati, and combine transits with your active daśā.
- [Reading Your Individual Birth Chart in Jyoti Guide](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/guides/individual-chart.md): Cast and read a single natal chart — enter birth data, choose an ayanāṁśa, explore the chart diagram and planets table, and export your results.
- [Panchāng: Reading the Five-Limbed Vedic Daily Almanac](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/guides/panchang.md): Browse the five-limbed Vedic almanac day by day, track festivals and fasts, find auspicious windows, and understand the Hindu leap month.
- [Shadbala: How to Read Your Six-Fold Planetary Strength](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/guides/shadbala.md): Understand how Shadbala scores every planet numerically across six strength sources, what the minimum thresholds mean, and how to apply the results.
- [Tājaka Varṣaphal: Reading Your Annual Solar-Return Chart](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/guides/tajaka-varshaphal.md): Cast and read the Tājaka annual chart — navigate years and time-scale tabs, and apply Muntha, Varṣeśa, Tājaka yogas, and annual daśās.
- [Using the Jyoti Guide Workbench for Advanced Analysis](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/guides/the-workbench.md): A customisable multi-panel dashboard for advanced readers — lay out divisional charts, the Shoḍaśavarga grid, and every analysis panel side by side.
- [Vimśottarī Daśā: Reading Your Vedic Planetary Periods](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/guides/vimshottari-dasha.md): Understand the 120-year Vimśottarī daśā system — how planetary periods nest, how to find your active period, and how to combine it with Gochara.
- [Classical References Behind Jyoti Guide's Calculations](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/help/classical-references.md): The four primary classical and modern sources behind every Jyoti Guide calculation, with a feature-to-source mapping table for tracing any number.
- [Frequently Asked Questions About the Jyoti Guide App](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/help/faq.md): Answers to the most common questions about the Jyoti Guide chart engine, its Vedic conventions, and how to get the most from your birth chart.
- [Glossary of Sanskrit and Vedic Astrology Terms Used](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/help/glossary.md): Plain-language definitions of every Sanskrit and Vedic term used in Jyoti Guide, sorted alphabetically with links to the relevant guide pages.
- [Troubleshooting Common Chart Issues in Jyoti Guide](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/help/troubleshooting.md): Step-by-step fixes for the most common issues in Jyoti Guide: chart generation, place search, birth time uncertainty, and chart differences.
- [Quick Start: Cast Your First Full Sidereal Birth Chart](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/introduction/quick-start.md): Go from a blank form to a readable sidereal birth chart in minutes. All you need is a place of birth, a date, and a local clock time.
- [What Is Jyoti Guide? A Vedic Birth Chart Calculator](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/introduction/what-is-this.md): A jyotiṣa calculator — cast a sidereal birth chart, explore planetary strengths, daśā timelines, transits, compatibility, and more.
- [Why Jyotiṣa Uses the Sidereal Zodiac, Not Tropical](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/introduction/why-sidereal.md): What separates a Vedic chart from a Western one — the fixed-star zodiac, the ayanāṁśa, and why the same birth can give a different Sun or Moon sign.
- [Ashtakūṭa Scoring: Complete Rules for All Eight Kūṭas](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/reference/ashtakoota-scoring.md): Complete point-by-point rules for all eight kūṭas in the 36-point Ashtakūṭa compatibility system, including dosha flags and chart factors.
- [Ayanāṁśa Reference: Lahiri, Raman, and Pushya Options](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/reference/ayanamsa.md): What the ayanāṁśa is, how the three supported options differ, when the choice matters at sign and nakṣatra boundaries, and how to set it.
- [Exports and Sharing: Every Chart Output Option Explained](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/reference/exports.md): What each of the five chart export options produces — share links, offline copy, PDF report, Markdown copy, and Open in GPT explained.
- [Shadbala Formulas: Complete Six-Bala Strength Reference](https://docs.jyotiguide.com/reference/shadbala-computation.md): The full technical derivation of all six balas, classical maxima, minimum thresholds, and the ratio formula used in the Shadbala panel.