User Guide
AI Vedic Astro casts an accurate Vedic (sidereal) birth chart, and — new — writes you a plain-language life summary you can read without knowing any astrology. It also does something most chart apps do not: test whether a recorded birth time is actually right, by checking real, dated life events against the Dasa periods running when they happened. This guide walks through every screen in the order you would use it. A glossary of terms is at the end.
1. Sign in & privacy basics
Open the site and choose Sign in with Google. Your Google account is used only to identify you so your charts and events stay private to you. You must be 18 or older.
This is a small research project shared with family and friends. To study whether the method works, the project owner (admin) can see the charts, events, life summaries and chat questions people create. If you are not comfortable with that, enter only what you are happy to share.
2. Create a chart (field by field)
On the Main Dashboard, fill in the birth details and press Show Chart. Charts you cast are auto-saved to your account. Each field:
- Full Name — a label so you can tell your saved charts apart.
- Birth Date — the calendar date of birth.
- Birth Time (24h) — as exact as you can. This is the single most important field: the Ascendant (Lagna) moves about one degree every 4 minutes, so a few minutes changes the chart. If unsure, enter your best estimate and use step 8 to test it.
- City & Country — the birth place.
- Timezone — defaults to Asia/Kolkata; change it for births outside India.
- Latitude & Longitude (optional) — add them for pinpoint accuracy.
- Ayanamsha — the sidereal correction. A short explanation sits under the field; Lahiri is the standard default.
3. Your life summary — start here
As soon as a chart is cast, a Your Life Summary box appears with a “Read my life summary” button. Press it and, in about 10–20 seconds, you get a short, plain-language reading in seven parts: personality & life path, career, finance, love, marriage, health, and future predictions. It is written for an ordinary reader — no Dasa tables or jargon to decode — and it names real years for things like career peaks and a likely marriage window.
It works in Tamil too — switch the language at the top and press Regenerate. Once a summary is made it is saved and simply shown again when you reopen the chart, so you are not kept waiting or charged twice; the Regenerate button makes a fresh one only if you want it.
Under the summary are two next steps: Ask the AI about this (opens Chat already knowing your summary) and Share a YouTube video. Treat the summary as thoughtful guidance for study, not a certain prediction — and remember the birth time strongly affects it.
4. Read your chart
The South Indian chart uses fixed boxes: the twelve signs always sit in the same positions (Pisces top-left, running clockwise), and the planets are placed into whichever sign they occupy. The Ascendant is marked Asc (Lagna).
Small marks beside a planet show its dignity: ↑ exalted (உச்சம்), ↓ debilitated (நீசம்), ● own sign (ஆட்சி), and a retrograde mark. The Planetary Positions table below lists, for each planet: its sign, exact degree, nakshatra (star), pada (quarter of the nakshatra), state, and the sign it falls in within the Navamsa (D9) chart.
5. Divisional (Varga) charts
Divisional charts split each sign into finer parts to study specific areas of life. Below the main chart, D1 (Rasi — the overall chart) and D9 (Navamsa — marriage and the inner strength of planets) are shown by default. Use the chips to add other charts (D2–D60); turn on Advanced to see the full set.
A comparison table shows each planet's sign in every chart you've selected, with the same dignity marks. Note: D5, D6 and D8 follow one common convention among several — treat those three with extra caution.
6. Saved & previous charts
Open Previous Charts to see every chart you've saved and pick one. Your selection there is what drives all the other tabs — the life summary, Dasa, Panchang, Yogas, Transit and so on all work off the chart you choose. Editing or deleting charts is currently admin-only.
7. Life events & Dasa — the heart of the app
Vimshottari Dasa is a 120-year cycle that assigns each stretch of life to a ruling planet (the Mahadasa), subdivided into Antardasa (sub-periods). The idea is that events tend to carry the flavour of whichever planet is running.
Open Life Events and Dasa. Add important dated events — a marriage, a new job, a move, an illness, a loss — giving each a date and marking it favourable or unfavourable. The app lines each event up with the Dasa lord running on that date, so you can judge whether the theme fits that planet. The more well-dated events you add, the stronger the test in the next step — and the sharper your life summary becomes.
8. Verify the birth time
Open Verify Birth Time. The app casts your recorded time plus 200 random control times across a window around it, scores how well your events fit each using fixed rules, and compares your time against the controls.
A strong score supports the recorded time; a weak or inconclusive one suggests trying nearby times. The app tells you when a result is inconclusive instead of inventing an answer — treat every result as a hypothesis, not proof.
9. Other tools
For whichever chart is selected, you can also open:
- Panchang — the five limbs of the day: tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana and vara.
- Yogas — notable planetary combinations found in the chart.
- Ashtakvarga — a points system scoring the strength of each sign and planet.
- Transit (Gochar) — where the planets are right now relative to your chart.
- Sade Sati — Saturn's seven-and-a-half-year phases moving over the Moon.
- Remedies — it does not fix one named problem; it shows which planets are under strain and the part of your life each touches, so a supportive practice has a clear purpose. It links to Chat (which knows your summary) to ask what to actually do.
- Numerology, and Learn Astrology — a growing library of videos and explainers.
10. Chat with the AI astrologer
The Chat tab answers plain-language questions about the selected chart, drawing on the chart's own data, the Dasa running at the time, and your recorded events. If you arrive from your life summary, it continues from that summary and offers follow-up starter questions about it. You can also paste a YouTube link to ground the conversation in a specific lesson. As with everything here, its replies are study hypotheses, not professional advice.
11. Language, privacy & your data
Use the language toggle at the top to switch between English and Tamil. You own your data and can delete your charts and events yourself. For the full details, see the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Important: this is a personal research project. Every output — chart reading, life summary, Dasa match, verification score, chat reply — is a hypothesis for study, not medical, legal, financial or professional advice.
12. Glossary
- Lagna (Ascendant) — the sign rising on the eastern horizon at birth; it anchors the whole chart and is most sensitive to the birth time.
- Rasi — a zodiac sign; also the name of the main D1 chart.
- Nakshatra — one of the 27 lunar mansions (stars); Pada — one of its four quarters.
- Dasa / Antardasa — the ruling planetary period and its sub-period (Vimshottari system).
- Ayanamsha — the offset between the sidereal and tropical zodiacs (e.g. Lahiri).
- Navamsa (D9) — the ninth divisional chart, used for marriage and a planet's deeper strength.
- Exalted / Debilitated / Own sign — a planet at its strongest / weakest / at home.
- Panchang — the five time-elements of a day: tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana, vara.