Timing & Dashas
Dasha cycles, transits, and choosing the right moment to act.
Tithi Explained: The Thirty Lunar Days
A tithi is the time the Moon needs to gain 12 degrees on the Sun, which is why it is never exactly 24 hours. Here is why Hindu dates skip and repeat, all thirty tithis, and the five tithi groups.
Griha Pravesh Muhurat: Timing a House Warming
Vedic tradition names three kinds of house entry, each with its own rules. This guide covers the tithi, nakshatra, weekday and lagna a griha pravesh muhurat is chosen on, the months avoided, and how to handle a possession date that will not move.
How to Choose a Wedding Muhurat
A step-by-step method for choosing a vivah muhurat - tithi, nakshatra, weekday, yoga, karana and lagna - plus the months ruled out entirely and why the Indian wedding season falls where it does.
Abhijit Muhurat: The Daily Auspicious Window
Abhijit Muhurat is the eighth of the fifteen daytime muhurtas, a short window centred on local solar noon. Here is how it is calculated, what it is traditionally used for, and where the authorities disagree.
Rahu Kaal: What It Is and How to Use It
Rahu Kaal is one-eighth of the daylight period, and which eighth it is changes with the weekday. This guide gives the weekday table, explains why the window shifts by city and season, and states plainly what it does not apply to.
Guru (Jupiter) Transit and Its Effects
Jupiter takes about a year to cross a sign and twelve to circle the chart, and it aspects three houses from wherever it sits. Here is what Guru gochara does in each house from the Moon, and why expansion is not the same as improvement.
Shani (Saturn) Transit: What to Expect
Saturn spends about two and a half years in every sign, so its transits are felt as conditions rather than events. Here is what gochara really says, house by house from the Moon, and how to read it honestly.
What Is Sade Sati, and What Does It Really Do?
Sade Sati is Saturn moving through the three signs around your birth Moon, roughly seven and a half years. Here is what the tradition claims it does, how often it recurs, and how not to be frightened into paying for remedies.
Antardasha and Pratyantardasha: Reading Sub-Periods
Vimshottari dasha divides into antardasha, pratyantardasha and finer levels by the same proportional rule. Here is the arithmetic, the judgement, and how deep it is honest to read.
Vimshottari Dasha: The 120-Year Cycle Explained
The full Vimshottari system - the 120-year sequence and its nine period lengths, how the janma nakshatra fixes your starting dasha, how the balance at birth is calculated, and how to read a mahadasha without leaning on a graha reputation.
What Is Nakshatra and Choghadiya — and How Are They Used?
A nakshatra is where the Moon is — one of 27 segments of the sky. A choghadiya is when — one of eight slots dividing the daylight. One drives the entire timing system of a birth chart; the other is what people check before signing a document.
What Is Panchang and the Panchang Calendar?
A Panchang is not a calendar of dates — it is five simultaneous measurements of a day, computed for your exact location. Here are the five limbs, why the Panchang for Mumbai differs from Delhi, and how Indian festival dates are actually decided.