Every term. Defined.
Vedic, Western, Chinese, Tarot, Numerology — the vocabulary of every system we compute, in plain English.
Vedic
New moon — the 30th tithi where Sun and Moon share the same longitude.
The angular gap between the tropical zodiac and the sidereal zodiac.
Vedic time windows dividing day and night into auspicious / inauspicious 90-minute slots.
A planetary period in Vedic time-mapping — when a specific graha activates in the life.
An afflictive planetary configuration in a chart — Mangal Dosha, Nadi Dosha, etc.
A Vedic celestial body — Sun, Moon, five visible planets, plus the lunar nodes Rahu and Ketu.
Vedic 36-point marriage compatibility based on Moon nakshatra matching.
The South Lunar Node — point where the Moon's orbit crosses the ecliptic descending.
The Vedic birth chart — a snapshot of planetary positions at the moment of birth.
The zodiac sign rising on the eastern horizon at the moment of birth.
The default ayanamsa used by official Indian astronomy, adopted by N.C. Lahiri in 1955.
The Mars affliction — said to cause marital discord.
An auspicious time window for starting a specific event — wedding, business, travel.
A lunar mansion — one of 27 equal slices of the sidereal zodiac.
The Vedic 9th divisional chart — derived from natal positions, read for marriage and dharma.
A lunar fortnight — either Shukla (waxing) or Krishna (waning).
The Vedic five-fold almanac — tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga, karana for any given day.
Full moon — the 15th tithi where Sun and Moon are 180° apart.
The North Lunar Node — point where the Moon's orbit crosses the ecliptic ascending.
A daily ~90-minute inauspicious window ruled by Rahu.
The Vedic Moon sign — the sign the Moon occupied at birth.
Saturn's 7.5-year transit over the natal Moon sign — three phases of restructuring.
The zodiac fixed to the actual constellations, used in Vedic astrology.
A lunar day — the time it takes the Moon to gain 12° on the Sun.
The standard 120-year planetary period system in Vedic astrology.
Western
Both
An angular relationship between two planets that activates a relational dynamic.
The map of planetary positions at the moment of birth.
Two planets occupying the same degree (or very close) — their energies merge.
One of the 12 sectors of the chart — each governing a domain of life.
When a planet appears to move backward through the zodiac from Earth's vantage.
The current position of a planet relative to the natal chart.