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The frame we calculate in

Every chart on DKSCORE is computed in the sidereal zodiac, the frame used throughout Vedic astrology. Western horoscopes are normally tropical: they fix 0° Aries to the spring equinox, which drifts against the stars. Sidereal fixes the rashis to the constellations instead. The practical consequence for a reader is direct — if you have always read yourself as a tropical Cancer, your Moon sign here may well be Gemini. That is the two systems disagreeing by design, not an error.

Charts are calculated by our own system rather than assembled by hand, and the same birth details always produce the same chart. The calculation is deterministic: nothing about a placement is generated, sampled or inferred by a model.

What goes in

Three inputs: date of birth, time of birth, and place. The place is resolved to coordinates and a timezone, because a chart is a statement about the sky at one point on the Earth's surface — the same instant produces different houses in Chennai and in Delhi.

When the birth time is unknown, we do not invent one. Sections that depend on the ascendant are skipped rather than filled with a plausible guess, and the profile renders only what a date and place can honestly support. A chart built on a fabricated time is worse than no chart, because it looks exactly as authoritative as a real one.

The birth chart (D1)

The rashi chart carries the ascendant and the nine grahas of classical Jyotish — Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the lunar nodes Rahu and Ketu — across twelve signs and twelve houses, each with its degree.

Each planet also carries its nakshatra and pada, the lunar mansion and quarter it occupies. Alongside the ascendant we store the special lagnas used in several classical techniques — Arudha, Karakamsha, Indu and Bhava — and the panchang at birth: tithi, Vedic weekday, the Moon's nakshatra, yoga, karana, and the sunrise and sunset that bound the day.

Planetary condition

A placement alone does not say how well a planet can act. These are stored per chart as fields, which is what makes them searchable across many charts rather than only readable in one:

• Retrogression — apparent backward motion, recorded per planet.
• Combustion — proximity to the Sun close enough to weaken a planet's expression.
• Graha yuddha — planetary war, with the winner and loser both recorded, not merely the fact of the conflict.
• Vargottama — the same sign in the rashi and navamsa charts, a classical strength marker.
• Dig bala — directional strength from the house a planet occupies.
• Gandanta and marana karaka placements — junction points and positions traditionally read as difficult.
• Ashtakavarga — the point-scoring system that grades each sign for each planet. It is a strength system in its own right, not a divisional chart.
• Jaimini karakas — the significators ranked by degree, used throughout the Jaimini system.

The 20 divisional charts

A varga subdivides each sign and re-maps the result, producing a chart that examines one department of life at higher resolution. DKSCORE calculates and stores 20 of them per chart. That includes the complete classical Shodashavarga — all 16 — plus four beyond it (D5, D6, D8 and D11).

Public celebrity profiles surface the rashi, navamsa and dashamsha charts. The full set is available in the Web CRM.

Timing: the Vimshottari dasha

Timing runs on the Vimshottari dasha, the 120-year cycle keyed to the Moon's nakshatra at birth. Each planet rules a period, and those periods nest: mahadasha within the cycle, antardasha within the mahadasha, pratyantardasha within that. We compute and store the sequence with its start and end dates rather than deriving it on demand, so the dasha in force at any date in a life is a lookup.

The Rodden rating scale

Birth data is only as good as its source. We use the Lois Rodden rating system — the standard classification used by astrologers worldwide — which codes every record by where the information came from and whether primary documentation exists. The rating shown on a profile is the rating of its birth data, not a judgement of the person.

For serious chart work, practitioners prioritise AA and A. We show the lower ratings rather than hiding them: speculative or conflicting data leads to false conclusions, and you can only weigh a reading if you know what it rests on. Profiles with no rating at all show no rating — we don't guess one.

For celebrity profiles, birth date, time and place are sourced from publicly available reference databases and cross-checked against published interviews and verified biographies.

Numerology

Numerology numbers (Birth, Destiny, Soul, Personality, Kabbalah) are computed from the date of birth and the full legal name where both are available. We use the Chaldean and Pythagorean systems in parallel and report both where they diverge, rather than picking one and presenting it as the answer.

Editorial process

Insight sections — the per-profile FAQ, the Astrology Insights blocks and yearly outlooks — are drafted from chart data using a structured template, then reviewed by astrologers on our panel before publishing. Pilot profiles show the reviewing astrologer's name near the top of the page. Insights are revised as our astrologers refine them; the "Last Updated" date on a profile reflects the most recent editorial pass on that specific profile.

Questions or corrections

If you spot inaccurate birth data, a chart discrepancy or a factual error in an insight section, write to support@dkscore.com and we'll route it to the reviewing astrologer.