Type a name in any script, a term, a question, or a combination such as “Saturn in the 7th”.
There is one chapter per method. Each chapter begins with what the method is and its basic idea. It then gives the reading step by step with the cards that show it, a worked example on your chart (or an example chart), a comparison with the other methods, and the verses to read next.
The chapters below give what each method on the board is for, how they fit together, and an order in which to learn them.
The classical reading uses whole-sign houses from the lagna, judges each house through its lord, and weighs every placement by strength.
How the daśās time what a chart promises, which system to use when, and how the conditional ones are chosen.
Gochara reads the moving sky against the birth chart. This chapter gives gochara from the Moon, the checks the texts add, and the forecast card.
This chapter gives the star and pāda of each point, the lords they give, and the stars counted from the birth star.
A sign-based reading uses the chara kārakas, the arūḍha padas, argalā, the aspects of signs and the daśās of signs.
The board casts a chart for each year of life when the Sun returns to its birth longitude. Tājika aspects and yogas read that chart.
The chart of the moment a question is asked is read by the Ṣaṭpañcāśikā and by Tājika.
How the almanac’s tithi, weekday, nakṣatra, yoga, karaṇa and lagna are weighed to choose the time to begin a piece of work.
Marriage matching compares two charts by their Moons. The tests are the eight kūṭas, the ten Tamil poruthams and Maṅgala doṣa.
What Bṛhat Jātaka 24 reads differently in a woman’s chart, and what stays the same.
This Tamil system follows five birds through the watches of the day. It is read for timing, for questions and for a person’s strong hours.
Pulippāṇi Jothidam has 300 Tamil verses on dignities, houses, lagnas, combinations and the daśā-bhuktis.
This 20th-century stellar method uses Placidus cusps, the sub lord of each cusp and four levels of significators.