Pick your sign and this page reads the day for it: four indices, a lucky number, colour and direction, the best planetary hour to act in, and the sign you are most in tune with today. All of it is calculated in your browser from live planetary positions — nothing here was written in advance, fetched from a service, or generated on a schedule that can quietly stop running.
Sunrise and the hora windows use your latitude: °N — longitude is taken from your device time zone, so sunrise is accurate to a few minutes near the middle of a zone and can be off by up to half an hour at its edges.
All twelve at a glance — overall / love / career / wealth
Not sure which sign is yours? Vedic readings are counted from your Moon sign, not your Sun sign. Find your Moon sign and nakshatra from your birth date and time.
A page for each sign
Every sign has its own page, with the same live calculation plus what is specific to that sign: its lord, its element, the three nakshatras that fall across it, which sign brings its Chandrashtama days, and which brings its strongest.
- Aries daily horoscope — Chandrashtama when the Moon is in Scorpio
- Taurus daily horoscope — Chandrashtama when the Moon is in Sagittarius
- Gemini daily horoscope — Chandrashtama when the Moon is in Capricorn
- Cancer daily horoscope — Chandrashtama when the Moon is in Aquarius
- Leo daily horoscope — Chandrashtama when the Moon is in Pisces
- Virgo daily horoscope — Chandrashtama when the Moon is in Aries
- Libra daily horoscope — Chandrashtama when the Moon is in Taurus
- Scorpio daily horoscope — Chandrashtama when the Moon is in Gemini
- Sagittarius daily horoscope — Chandrashtama when the Moon is in Cancer
- Capricorn daily horoscope — Chandrashtama when the Moon is in Leo
- Aquarius daily horoscope — Chandrashtama when the Moon is in Virgo
- Pisces daily horoscope — Chandrashtama when the Moon is in Libra
What the four indices mean
Each index is a weighted reading of where a particular planet sits relative to your sign today. That relationship is called Gochara — transit — and classical Vedic astrology has a fixed table for each planet listing the houses in which it is counted favourable. The tables are not invented here; they are printed in the standard Gochara texts and reproduced at the foot of the panel above.
- Overall — mostly the Moon, with Jupiter and Saturn behind it. The Moon changes sign every two and a bit days, which is why this index moves most.
- Love — Venus first, then the Moon.
- Career and study — the Sun, with Saturn for endurance and Mars for drive.
- Wealth — Jupiter first, then Mercury.
A five-pip index means the planet is in the position its own table calls the best (usually the 11th). One pip means it is in the 8th, which every table treats as the worst.
Chandrashtama: the eighth-house day
When the Moon transits the eighth sign from yours, the panel drops your overall index to one pip and says so directly. This is Chandrashtama. It comes round once every 27 to 28 days and lasts a little over two days, because that is how long the Moon spends in one sign.
Tradition treats it as the most difficult day of the lunar month for that sign — not because something bad happens, but because judgement and mood are said to be least reliable. The advice attached to it is narrow: do not sign, do not launch, do not begin a journey you could postpone, and do not have the argument you have been saving up. Ordinary work is unaffected.
Lucky number, colour, direction and hora
These four are not decorative and they are not random. The panel finds the best-placed planet for your sign today — the one whose house is highest on its own Gochara table — and takes all four from that planet:
- its traditional number (Sun 1, Moon 2, Jupiter 3, Mercury 5, Venus 6, Saturn 8, Mars 9),
- its colour,
- its direction,
- and the next hora it rules today.
The hora is the planetary hour. The day from sunrise to sunset is divided into twelve parts and the night into twelve more; the first belongs to the lord of the weekday and the rest follow the Chaldean order — Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon — around and around. It is the same system that produces the seven-day week, and it is why Sunday follows Saturday. The window shown is the next hora ruled by your best-placed planet.
Because horas depend on sunrise, the panel asks for your latitude. It takes your longitude from your device time zone, which is accurate to a few minutes near the middle of a zone and can drift by up to half an hour at its edges. If you want the exact figure for your town, see how to calculate Rahu Kaal, which works from the same sunrise.
Should you read your Moon sign or your Sun sign?
Vedic astrology reads Gochara from the Moon sign — the sign the Moon occupied at your birth, the Janma Rashi — not from the Sun sign that Western newspaper columns use. If you know your Moon sign, read that panel. If you do not, read your Sun sign; it still describes the day’s general weather, just less precisely for you.
The two are usually different. The Moon changes sign every two to two and a half days; the Sun takes a month.
Why this differs from other daily horoscopes
Two reasons, and both are worth knowing.
First, most daily horoscope pages publish text written on a schedule. Nothing is computed; the words were chosen by a person or a language model days earlier and would read the same whatever the sky was doing. Here the words attached to each position are fixed, but which position you get is worked out from where the planets actually are at the moment you load the page.
Second, where other sites do calculate, many use tropical positions. Sidereal and tropical zodiacs have drifted about 24 degrees apart — nearly a full sign — so a tropical Aries is usually a sidereal Pisces. This page is sidereal, using the Lahiri ayanamsa, which is the standard in Indian practice. If a reading here disagrees with one elsewhere, that is very often the whole explanation.
Using it with the rest of the day
Gochara tells you the shape of the day for your sign. It does not tell you what everyone shares. For that:
- Today’s Panchang — the five limbs of the Hindu calendar day.
- Rahu Kaal — the ninety-minute window to avoid, the same for everyone.
- The 27 nakshatras — the lunar mansion named at the top of the panel.
- Auspicious periods and inauspicious periods.
- Choosing a muhurat, when the event is important enough to plan around properly.
Common questions
Does it update at midnight?
It updates continuously. The Moon does not wait for midnight — reload in the evening and your index may have changed. The hora window changes every hour or so by design.
How accurate are the positions?
The Moon is computed from a 59-term lunar series and agrees with a full ephemeris to well under an arcminute. The planets use the standard approximate orbital elements and are good to a few arcminutes, which is far more than enough to place a planet in a 30-degree sign. The only case worth watching is a planet sitting within a fraction of a degree of a sign boundary.
Is this a prediction?
No. The positions are astronomy and they are correct. The readings attached to each position are the traditional meanings recorded in the classical Gochara literature. They describe what the tradition assigns to a placement; they do not describe an event, and nothing here should stand in for medical, legal or financial advice.