CrescentFree kundli, made in seconds.
Enter a birth date, time and place. You get the lagna, the Moon sign and nakshatra, the North Indian chart, the dasha running now and a Mangal dosha check, here on the page with no account.
Birth details
What a kundli is
A kundli, also written kundali or janam kundli, is the Vedic birth chart: the sky at the minute and place of a birth, drawn as twelve houses. It records which sign was rising in the east, where the Sun and Moon stood, and where the five visible planets and the two lunar nodes, Rahu and Ketu, fell. The tradition reads it as a map of temperament and of the timing of life's chapters. Crescent presents it as a way to reflect, not as a verdict on what has to happen.
The positions are calculated for the exact moment from planetary theory, in the sidereal zodiac with the Lahiri ayanamsa that Indian almanacs use, and with the time zone rules that applied in that place on that date.
Lagna, rashi and nakshatra
The lagna is the sign on the eastern horizon at birth. It becomes the first house, and every other house is counted on from it, which is why the lagna shapes the whole chart. The rashi is the Moon sign. Vedic astrology leans on the Moon more than on the Sun, so when people in India ask your sign they usually mean this one.
The nakshatra is finer still. The zodiac is divided into 27 nakshatras of 13 degrees 20 minutes each, and the one holding the Moon is the birth nakshatra. Each is split into four padas. The nakshatra sets the starting point of the dasha periods and supplies four of the eight kootas in nakshatra matching.
The houses
The North Indian chart draws the houses as a fixed diamond, with the lagna always at the top centre and the houses running counterclockwise from it. Crescent uses whole sign houses, the classical Vedic method: the whole lagna sign is the first house, the next sign the second, and so on. Each house is read for one area of life, the seventh for partnership or the tenth for work, and a graha sitting in a house colours that area.
Dashas: the timing layer
Vimshottari dasha divides a life of 120 years into nine long periods, each ruled by a graha, and each of those into nine sub periods called antardashas. The first period is ruled by the lord of the birth nakshatra, and how much of it is left at birth depends on how far the Moon had travelled through that nakshatra. The calculator shows the mahadasha and antardasha running today and the next mahadasha, with the months they change.
Why the birth time matters
The lagna changes sign about every two hours, so a wrong hour can move every house. The Moon moves about half a degree an hour, which is enough to shift the dasha timeline by months. Without a birth time the calculator leaves the lagna blank, counts houses from the Moon sign, does not show dashas and does not judge Mangal dosha, because each of those would be a guess. A time from a birth certificate or a hospital record is worth finding.
Mangal dosha and the other checks
Mangal dosha is counted from Mars in the first, second, fourth, seventh, eighth or twelfth house from the lagna. It matters most in kundli matching, where the tradition looks for it in both charts. The result also checks Kaal Sarp dosha and Sade Sati. Each is a point the tradition raises for reflection and conversation, and each is read against the whole chart rather than on its own.
Questions people ask
Is this kundli really free?
Yes. The whole chart, the nakshatra, the current dasha and the dosha check are shown on the page without an account. An account is only needed if you want to keep the chart and get a daily reading from it.
Why is my sign different from my Western sign?
The kundli uses the sidereal zodiac, which is fixed to the stars, while Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, which follows the seasons. The two start about 24 degrees apart, so many placements sit one sign earlier in the kundli.
Can I make a kundli without a birth time?
You can see the Moon sign and nakshatra, and the calculator says if either changed during that day. The lagna, the houses from it, the dasha timeline and Mangal dosha all need the time, so they are left out rather than guessed.
Looking for the day rather than a person? The panchang gives tithi, nakshatra and choghadiya for a date and place.