Choose a chart style: North, South, East Indian or Circular
Switch any chart card between the four styles and learn what the Circular and East Indian charts show.
3 min · 6 steps
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Open the style menu
Every chart card on the dashboard has two menus at its top left. The first chooses the style: North Indian, South Indian, East Indian or Circular. The second chooses the divisional chart.
Each card keeps its own style until you close the tab, so you can show the rashi chart as a wheel and the navamsa as a North Indian chart side by side. Charts open in the style you chose at setup. The same menu is on the chart cards in Tajak, Mundane, Matchmaking and Astrodatabank.
The chart style menu with North Indian, South Indian, East Indian and Circular - 2
North and South Indian
North Indian keeps the houses fixed, with the first house (the lagna) at the top centre, and the number in each house is its sign: 1 for Aries up to 12 for Pisces.
South Indian keeps the signs fixed, with Pisces at the top left and the signs running clockwise, and marks the ascendant (As) in its sign.
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East Indian
East Indian also keeps the signs fixed, with Aries in the top centre and the signs running anticlockwise, as in Jagannatha Hora. Each corner cell holds two signs split by a diagonal: Taurus sits in the half beside Aries and Gemini in the half beside Cancer.
The ascendant (As) is marked in its sign, with the planets and arudhas in theirs.
The rashi chart in the East Indian style, with Aries at the top centre - 4
Circular
Circular draws the zodiac as a wheel, with the ascendant on the left (the eastern horizon) and the signs running anticlockwise from it.
From the outside in: the twelve signs, the 27 nakshatras, each planet at its exact degree with a tick on the nakshatra ring, and the house numbers, counted from the ascendant's sign. The positions are sidereal, in your ayanamsa and the divisional chart chosen in the second menu. Special lagnas, arudhas and the other extras of the square charts are not drawn on the wheel.
The rashi chart in the Circular style, with signs, nakshatras, planets and house numbers - 5
Circular in KP and Ashtakavarga
On Modes → KP and KP Prashna, the Circular button draws the twelve Placidus cusps as house lines numbered I to XII, so one sign can hold two cusps or none.
The KP chart in the Circular style, with Placidus cusps I to XII - 6
Read bindus on the wheel
The Ashtakavarga card's first menu offers North, South and Circular. In Circular, each sign's bindus are written in its sector, for the planet or SAV chosen in the second menu.
Sarvashtakavarga bindus in the Circular style
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