Astrology

Kundali matching

Ashtakoota Guna Milan across all eight kootas, out of thirty-six. Both charts are computed in full, because every koota is read from the Moon's exact nakshatra and Mangal dosha from where Mars actually sits — neither of which survives a birth date on its own.

His details

The time matters more than anything else here. Two hours out and the ascendant moves a whole sign, which rearranges every house in the chart.

Gender (optional)

Two readings are defined in terms of it — the Kua number in vastu and the luck pillars in the Chinese chart — and neither has a formula for anything beyond male and female. Answer “other” or leave it and those two say so instead of guessing. Nothing else in your chart uses it.

Her details

The time matters more than anything else here. Two hours out and the ascendant moves a whole sign, which rearranges every house in the chart.

Gender (optional)

Two readings are defined in terms of it — the Kua number in vastu and the luck pillars in the Chinese chart — and neither has a formula for anything beyond male and female. Answer “other” or leave it and those two say so instead of guessing. Nothing else in your chart uses it.

Both birth times and both places are needed. A missing time cannot be worked around — it decides the nakshatra, and the nakshatra decides six of the eight kootas.

Eight kootas, thirty-six points

  • 1VarnaTemperament and outlook
  • 2VashyaMutual influence
  • 3TaraFortune from one birth star to the other
  • 4YoniInstinct and physical compatibility
  • 5Graha MaitriFriendship between the two Moon-sign rulers
  • 6GanaDisposition
  • 7BhakootThe distance between the two Moon signs
  • 8NadiConstitution — the heaviest of the eight

The total is not the whole verdict. An uncancelled Nadi dosha rules a match out whatever it scores, and an uncancelled Bhakoot dosha caps it — which is why a pair can total twenty-eight and still be read as unsuitable.