Card tables
Shuffle a face-down deck and pick one, two or three cards. Tarot, Lenormand, South Indian parrot cards, Ganjifa and Hanafuda.
Your birth sky · free · private
Find yourMoon sign
Enter when and where you were born. In a few seconds you will see where the Moon, the horizon and the Sun stood, explained in plain words. Your date and time never leave your device.
Your sky now
Today, on your chart
- Calculated a measurement, taken from the sky just now
- Tradition a memory a named text keeps; we only pass it on
- Our words a note in the margin, ours alone
Reading the sky for this minute.
Play with it
Pull a card. Tell a dream.
Two things to do before you leave: draw from a shuffled deck, or tell a dream and see what the old texts and sleep science say of it.
Dream meanings
Tell a dream. See what the Vedas, the epics and the Puranas say of it, beside what sleep science says.
Your words stay on your device unless you choose the AI reading on the next page.
Choose a way of reading
Read it in the tradition you know
Vedic, Western, Chinese, Javanese, numerology, tarot and palm. Each tool says what it calculates and what it only reports from tradition.
One day, many calendars
The same sky, counted everywhere
People have always kept time by the Sun and the Moon, and every culture drew its calendar differently. Here is today in several of them, worked out by your browser.
Many ways to read
Every culture drew its own sky
Greek astrologers, Chinese almanac makers, Slavic farmers and Indian astronomers all watched the same heavens. None of them owns the sky.
The Vedic lens · today
Panchanga पंचांग
The five limbs of the Indian almanac, worked out right now on your device.
Day वार
Lunar day तिथि
Lunar mansion नक्षत्र
Yoga योग
Half-day करण
Calculated now for the Sun and Moon with the Lahiri ayanamsa. The traditional day begins at sunrise; this shows the moment you opened the page.
Twelve signs · every tradition
The twelve doors बारह द्वार
Each sign has its own door: an animal, a ruling light, a poem and a story. Slide sideways to walk past them all.
मेषAriesMesha the RamFire · MovableवृषभTaurusVrishabha the BullEarth · FixedमिथुनGeminiMithuna the TwinsAir · Dualकर्कCancerKarka the CrabWater · MovableसिंहLeoSimha the LionFire · Fixedकन्याVirgoKanya the MaidenEarth · DualतुलाLibraTula the ScalesAir · Movableवृश्चिकScorpioVrischika the ScorpionWater · FixedधनुSagittariusDhanus the ArcherFire · DualमकरCapricornMakara the Sea-goatEarth · MovableकुंभAquariusKumbha the Water-bearerAir · FixedमीनPiscesMeena the FishesWater · Dual
The nine lights
Navagraha नवग्रह
Seven lights you can see and two shadows that mark the eclipses. Each gives its name to a day of the week.
- सूर्यSuryaSun · Sundaythe self and vitality
- चन्द्रChandraMoon · Mondaythe mind and its moods
- मंगलMangalaMars · Tuesdaycourage and drive
- बुधBudhaMercury · Wednesdayspeech and reason
- गुरुGuruJupiter · Thursdaywisdom and teachers
- शुक्रShukraVenus · Fridaylove and the arts
- शनिShaniSaturn · Saturdaytime and discipline
- राहुRahuNorth node · eclipse nodeappetite and the unfamiliar
- केतुKetuSouth node · eclipse noderelease and detachment
Verse for tonight's lodging
Learn
Learn the sky
Six short chapters, from the road the Sun walks to the twelve houses. Each says plainly where measurement ends and tradition begins.
- The zodiac belt
- Sidereal and tropical
- Elements and qualities
- The nine grahas
- The 27 nakshatras
- Lagna and the twelve houses
Read
The reading room
Essays, poems and twelve small invented stories, kept apart from the explanations so you always know which is which.
“Anjali had been standing at the bottom of the ladder for eleven minutes, which was ten minutes longer than the ladder deserved.”
The Ladder · MeṣaHow to read a line
A measurement, a memory, a note in the margin
Calculated
A position or interval from astronomy, with its conventions stated.
Attributed
A named tradition or text says this. It is not proof that anything will happen.
Our own words
A reflection written by us, never presented as a quotation.