Kundli by date of birth and time
Three inputs decide a chart: the date fixes the planets, the minute fixes the lagna, and the place fixes the sky over your head. Get one wrong and the houses shift.
Date: the planets
Sun, Mercury and Venus move about a degree a day; the Moon moves thirteen. A date is enough to place the outer planets and nearly always the Moon's sign, though the Moon changes sign every two and a quarter days, so a birth near midnight can sit on a boundary.
Time: the lagna
The ascendant advances one degree roughly every four minutes and changes sign about every two hours. A time known to the minute gives a lagna to the degree; a time known to the half hour gives it to about seven degrees. BhagyaX asks for the time in a digital field, hour, minute and AM/PM, and casts for noon if you leave it blank — and then tells you which parts of the reading depend on it.
Place: the sky and the clock
Longitude sets local sidereal time; latitude sets how the houses divide. Just as important is the clock that was running: New York is five hours behind UTC in January and four in July; India ran on +6:30 in 1942–45. BhagyaX resolves 786,000 places and applies the offset that was in force at your birth instant.
Questions
My birth certificate says 10:30 — is that exact?
Usually to within a few minutes. Hospital times are typically recorded at the first cry; a chart cast to the minute is the standard.
What if I was born in a village not on any app?
Type the village and the nearest town, e.g. 'Barsana, Mathura'. Every Indian village is in our database.
Related
Your kundli is computed by our own engine first; the astrologer reads only what it calculated.