Birth charts
Jaimini Astrology API
The Jaimini astrology API from API for Astrology (apiforastrology.com) reads a birth chart in the Jaimini system, the second classical school of Vedic astrology. You get the seven chara karakas (the roles the planets play) with the atmakaraka, the arudha padas A1 to A12, sign aspects, argala and chara dasha (periods counted in signs). It uses the same planet positions as the rest of the API but reads them another way.
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How the Jaimini astrology API works
- 1Jaimini is a second classical way to read the same birth chart.
- 2Whole signs look at other signs, and the planet furthest through its sign becomes the atmakaraka, the soul planet.
- 3The API returns all seven planet roles, the sign aspects, the arudha padas, argala and chara dasha periods.
POST /v1/jaimini200 OK{
"chara_karakas": {
"Atmakaraka": "Sun",
"Amatyakaraka": "Mars",
"Darakaraka": "Jupiter"
},
"padas": {
"A1": {
"sign": "Cancer",
"name": "Arudha Lagna"
}
}
}Call the Jaimini astrology API from your code
Send the details as JSON with your API key in the Authorization header. Copy the code, set ASTROLOGY_API_KEY to your key, and run it.
POST /v1/jaimini
# John Doe, born Aug 15, 1990, 10:30 AM, New York
curl -X POST "https://apiforastrology.com/api/astrology/v1/jaimini" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ASTROLOGY_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"year":1990,"month":8,"day":15,"hour":10,"minute":30,"second":0,"latitude":40.7128,"longitude":-74.006,"timezone":"America/New_York"}'Response (lists shortened)200 OK
{
"meta": {
"ayanamsa": "lahiri",
"ayanamsa_value": 23.7260727,
"julian_day": 2448119.10483,
"ephemeris": "JPL DE440s",
"node": "true",
"timezone": {
"source": "zone",
"offset_hours": -4,
"zone": "America/New_York",
"abbreviation": "EDT",
"dst": true,
"dst_hours": 1,
"ambiguous_resolved_by_fold": null,
"note": "read from the IANA tz database at this instant, so daylight saving and historical offset changes are included"
}
},
"chara_karakas": {
"Atmakaraka": "Sun",
"Amatyakaraka": "Mars",
"Bhratrikaraka": "Saturn",
"Matrikaraka": "Mercury",
"Putrakaraka": "Moon",
"Gnatikaraka": "Venus",
"Darakaraka": "Jupiter"
},
"padas": {
"A1": {
"sign": "Cancer",
"name": "Arudha Lagna"
},
"A2": {
"sign": "Capricorn",
"name": null
},
"A3": {
"sign": "Virgo",
"name": null
},
"A4": {
"sign": "Aquarius",
"name": null
},
"A5": {
"sign": "Scorpio",
"name": null
},
"A6": {
"sign": "Libra",
"name": null
},
"A7": {
"sign": "Scorpio",
"name": null
},
"A8": {
"sign": "Capricorn",
"name": null
},
"A9": {
"sign": "Virgo",
"name": null
},
"A10": {
"sign": "Libra",
"name": null
},
"A11": {
"sign": "Pisces",
"name": null
},
"A12": {
"sign": "Gemini",
"name": "Upapada Lagna"
}
},
"rashi_drishti": {
"Aries": {
"quality": "movable",
"aspects": [
"Leo",
"Scorpio",
"Aquarius"
],
"text": [
"Rashi drishti is the Jaimini sign aspect, in which whole signs look at other signs according to their quality. No planet is involved. A movable sign (Aries, Cancer, Libra or Capricorn) aspects three of the four fixed signs: all except the…",
"It matters because linked signs tie together the parts of life they stand for. Movable signs start things, so their aspect carries a push into what is otherwise settled. A fixed sign under a movable aspect tends to be moved, whether it…",
"An empty movable sign still aspects its three fixed signs, and that still counts. People used to ordinary planetary aspects, where an empty house casts nothing, most easily miss this."
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
},
"Taurus": {
"quality": "fixed",
"aspects": [
"Cancer",
"Libra",
"Capricorn"
],
"text": [
"In rashi drishti, the Jaimini sign aspect, whole signs look at each other. A sign's quality decides which ones it sees. A fixed sign (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius) aspects three of the four movable signs: all except the one just before…",
"This matters because it shows where steadiness enters your chart. Fixed signs hold still, so their aspect steadies things that would otherwise keep moving. Under a fixed sign's aspect, a movable sign tends to keep to one direction longer…"
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
},
"Gemini": {
"quality": "dual",
"aspects": [
"Virgo",
"Sagittarius",
"Pisces"
],
"text": [
"Rashi drishti is the Jaimini sign aspect, set by each sign's quality. In it, a dual sign looks at the other three dual signs and nothing else. So Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces form a closed group in every chart there is. Dual signs…",
"No sign outside the four ever aspects a dual sign by rashi drishti. And no dual sign aspects anything outside them. A dual sign can still be affected from elsewhere: through a planet's own aspect, or through a planet in it. Argala…"
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
},
"Cancer": {
"quality": "movable",
"aspects": [
"Taurus",
"Scorpio",
"Aquarius"
],
"text": [
"Rashi drishti is the Jaimini sign aspect, in which whole signs look at other signs according to their quality. No planet is involved. A movable sign (Aries, Cancer, Libra or Capricorn) aspects three of the four fixed signs: all except the…",
"It matters because linked signs tie together the parts of life they stand for. Movable signs start things, so their aspect carries a push into what is otherwise settled. A fixed sign under a movable aspect tends to be moved, whether it…",
"An empty movable sign still aspects its three fixed signs, and that still counts. People used to ordinary planetary aspects, where an empty house casts nothing, most easily miss this."
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
},
"Leo": {
"quality": "fixed",
"aspects": [
"Aries",
"Libra",
"Capricorn"
],
"text": [
"In rashi drishti, the Jaimini sign aspect, whole signs look at each other. A sign's quality decides which ones it sees. A fixed sign (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius) aspects three of the four movable signs: all except the one just before…",
"This matters because it shows where steadiness enters your chart. Fixed signs hold still, so their aspect steadies things that would otherwise keep moving. Under a fixed sign's aspect, a movable sign tends to keep to one direction longer…"
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
},
"Virgo": {
"quality": "dual",
"aspects": [
"Gemini",
"Sagittarius",
"Pisces"
],
"text": [
"Rashi drishti is the Jaimini sign aspect, set by each sign's quality. In it, a dual sign looks at the other three dual signs and nothing else. So Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces form a closed group in every chart there is. Dual signs…",
"No sign outside the four ever aspects a dual sign by rashi drishti. And no dual sign aspects anything outside them. A dual sign can still be affected from elsewhere: through a planet's own aspect, or through a planet in it. Argala…"
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
},
"Libra": {
"quality": "movable",
"aspects": [
"Taurus",
"Leo",
"Aquarius"
],
"text": [
"Rashi drishti is the Jaimini sign aspect, in which whole signs look at other signs according to their quality. No planet is involved. A movable sign (Aries, Cancer, Libra or Capricorn) aspects three of the four fixed signs: all except the…",
"It matters because linked signs tie together the parts of life they stand for. Movable signs start things, so their aspect carries a push into what is otherwise settled. A fixed sign under a movable aspect tends to be moved, whether it…",
"An empty movable sign still aspects its three fixed signs, and that still counts. People used to ordinary planetary aspects, where an empty house casts nothing, most easily miss this."
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
},
"Scorpio": {
"quality": "fixed",
"aspects": [
"Aries",
"Cancer",
"Capricorn"
],
"text": [
"In rashi drishti, the Jaimini sign aspect, whole signs look at each other. A sign's quality decides which ones it sees. A fixed sign (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius) aspects three of the four movable signs: all except the one just before…",
"This matters because it shows where steadiness enters your chart. Fixed signs hold still, so their aspect steadies things that would otherwise keep moving. Under a fixed sign's aspect, a movable sign tends to keep to one direction longer…"
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
},
"Sagittarius": {
"quality": "dual",
"aspects": [
"Gemini",
"Virgo",
"Pisces"
],
"text": [
"Rashi drishti is the Jaimini sign aspect, set by each sign's quality. In it, a dual sign looks at the other three dual signs and nothing else. So Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces form a closed group in every chart there is. Dual signs…",
"No sign outside the four ever aspects a dual sign by rashi drishti. And no dual sign aspects anything outside them. A dual sign can still be affected from elsewhere: through a planet's own aspect, or through a planet in it. Argala…"
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
},
"Capricorn": {
"quality": "movable",
"aspects": [
"Taurus",
"Leo",
"Scorpio"
],
"text": [
"Rashi drishti is the Jaimini sign aspect, in which whole signs look at other signs according to their quality. No planet is involved. A movable sign (Aries, Cancer, Libra or Capricorn) aspects three of the four fixed signs: all except the…",
"It matters because linked signs tie together the parts of life they stand for. Movable signs start things, so their aspect carries a push into what is otherwise settled. A fixed sign under a movable aspect tends to be moved, whether it…",
"An empty movable sign still aspects its three fixed signs, and that still counts. People used to ordinary planetary aspects, where an empty house casts nothing, most easily miss this."
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
},
"Aquarius": {
"quality": "fixed",
"aspects": [
"Aries",
"Cancer",
"Libra"
],
"text": [
"In rashi drishti, the Jaimini sign aspect, whole signs look at each other. A sign's quality decides which ones it sees. A fixed sign (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius) aspects three of the four movable signs: all except the one just before…",
"This matters because it shows where steadiness enters your chart. Fixed signs hold still, so their aspect steadies things that would otherwise keep moving. Under a fixed sign's aspect, a movable sign tends to keep to one direction longer…"
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
},
"Pisces": {
"quality": "dual",
"aspects": [
"Gemini",
"Virgo",
"Sagittarius"
],
"text": [
"Rashi drishti is the Jaimini sign aspect, set by each sign's quality. In it, a dual sign looks at the other three dual signs and nothing else. So Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces form a closed group in every chart there is. Dual signs…",
"No sign outside the four ever aspects a dual sign by rashi drishti. And no dual sign aspects anything outside them. A dual sign can still be affected from elsewhere: through a planet's own aspect, or through a planet in it. Argala…"
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
}
},
"argala": {
"Aries": [
{
"from_house": 2,
"from_sign": "Taurus",
"caused_by": [
"Moon"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 12,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Pisces",
"obstructed_by": [],
"obstructed": false
},
{
"from_house": 4,
"from_sign": "Cancer",
"caused_by": [
"Sun",
"Jupiter",
"Venus"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 10,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Capricorn",
"obstructed_by": [
"Rahu"
],
"obstructed": false
}
],
"Taurus": [
{
"from_house": 4,
"from_sign": "Leo",
"caused_by": [
"Mercury"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 10,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Aquarius",
"obstructed_by": [],
"obstructed": false
}
],
"Gemini": [
{
"from_house": 2,
"from_sign": "Cancer",
"caused_by": [
"Sun",
"Jupiter",
"Venus"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 12,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Taurus",
"obstructed_by": [
"Moon"
],
"obstructed": false
},
{
"from_house": 11,
"from_sign": "Aries",
"caused_by": [
"Mars"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 3,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Leo",
"obstructed_by": [
"Mercury"
],
"obstructed": true
}
],
"Cancer": [
{
"from_house": 2,
"from_sign": "Leo",
"caused_by": [
"Mercury"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 12,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Gemini",
"obstructed_by": [],
"obstructed": false
},
{
"from_house": 11,
"from_sign": "Taurus",
"caused_by": [
"Moon"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 3,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Virgo",
"obstructed_by": [],
"obstructed": false
}
],
"Leo": [],
"Virgo": [
{
"from_house": 4,
"from_sign": "Sagittarius",
"caused_by": [
"Saturn"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 10,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Gemini",
"obstructed_by": [],
"obstructed": false
},
{
"from_house": 11,
"from_sign": "Cancer",
"caused_by": [
"Sun",
"Jupiter",
"Venus"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 3,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Scorpio",
"obstructed_by": [],
"obstructed": false
}
],
"Libra": [
{
"from_house": 4,
"from_sign": "Capricorn",
"caused_by": [
"Rahu"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 10,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Cancer",
"obstructed_by": [
"Sun",
"Jupiter",
"Venus"
],
"obstructed": true
},
{
"from_house": 11,
"from_sign": "Leo",
"caused_by": [
"Mercury"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 3,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Sagittarius",
"obstructed_by": [
"Saturn"
],
"obstructed": true
}
],
"Scorpio": [
{
"from_house": 2,
"from_sign": "Sagittarius",
"caused_by": [
"Saturn"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 12,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Libra",
"obstructed_by": [],
"obstructed": false
}
],
"Sagittarius": [
{
"from_house": 2,
"from_sign": "Capricorn",
"caused_by": [
"Rahu"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 12,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Scorpio",
"obstructed_by": [],
"obstructed": false
}
],
"Capricorn": [
{
"from_house": 4,
"from_sign": "Aries",
"caused_by": [
"Mars"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 10,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Libra",
"obstructed_by": [],
"obstructed": false
}
],
"Aquarius": [
{
"from_house": 4,
"from_sign": "Taurus",
"caused_by": [
"Moon"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 10,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Scorpio",
"obstructed_by": [],
"obstructed": false
},
{
"from_house": 11,
"from_sign": "Sagittarius",
"caused_by": [
"Saturn"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 3,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Aries",
"obstructed_by": [
"Mars"
],
"obstructed": true
}
],
"Pisces": [
{
"from_house": 2,
"from_sign": "Aries",
"caused_by": [
"Mars"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 12,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Aquarius",
"obstructed_by": [],
"obstructed": false
},
{
"from_house": 11,
"from_sign": "Capricorn",
"caused_by": [
"Rahu"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 3,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Taurus",
"obstructed_by": [
"Moon"
],
"obstructed": true
}
]
},
"chara_dasha": {
"direction": "direct",
"direction_rule": "the 9th house holds Taurus, so the dasha runs zodiacally",
"periods": [
{
"sign": "Virgo",
"sign_number": 6,
"lord": "Mercury",
"years": 1,
"starts_after_years": 0,
"why": "Mercury is 2 signs from Virgo counting backward",
"text": [
"Chara dasha (Jaimini periods that pass from sign to sign) gives Virgo its own stretch of years. A Virgo period is a working period, not a showy one. Virgo is the sign of careful method and precision. So the period fills with service,…",
"What helps: bring to this period the tedious job you have put off for years, and it often gives way. Old tax papers, a messy set of accounts or a long-stalled repair are good candidates. What the period rarely gives is recognition. The…"
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
},
{
"sign": "Libra",
"sign_number": 7,
"lord": "Venus",
"years": 9,
"starts_after_years": 1,
"why": "Venus is 10 signs from Libra counting forward",
"text": [
"In chara dasha, your years are handed from one sign to the next. A Libra period runs through other people. Libra is the sign of balance, partnership and trade. So the period is made of agreements, partners and dealing with the public. Very…",
"The typical difficulty is that reaching an agreement can matter more to you than what the agreement says. That is how you end up with deals you regret later. What helps: decide your terms before the conversation, not during it, and read…"
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
},
{
"sign": "Scorpio",
"sign_number": 8,
"lord": "Ketu",
"years": 8,
"starts_after_years": 10,
"why": "Ketu is 9 signs from Scorpio counting forward",
"text": [
"Chara dasha is the Jaimini sequence of sign periods. A Scorpio period turns you toward hidden matters. Scorpio is the sign of depth and secrecy. So these belong to the period: research, hidden matters, other people's money and sudden…",
"What helps: don't start anything that depends on explaining yourself to others, and do finish whatever has been left half-open for years. Keep one habit of openness: not confessing, just saying things before you are asked. Most of this…"
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
}
],
"cycle_years": 55,
"rule": "Parashari chara dasha (K. N. Rao): direction from the sign in the 9th house; each sign counted to its lord forward or backward by its own group, minus one; twelve for a lord in its own sign; the two lords of Scorpio and Aquarius resolved…",
"note": "other chara dasha systems give different periods for the same chart. This one is stated in full in rulebook JM-06.",
"disputed": "two variants of the Scorpio/Aquarius dual-lord choice are not applied here, confirmed by the astrologer (N-25): ranking the kind of sign the two lords occupy (dual over fixed over movable) before their degrees, and counting a period to…",
"dated": {
"year_length_days": 365.25,
"periods": [
{
"cycle": 1,
"sign": "Virgo",
"sign_number": 6,
"years": 1,
"start": "1990-08-15T10:30:00",
"end": "1991-08-15T16:30:00",
"antardasha_direction": "forward",
"antardashas": [
{
"sign": "Libra",
"sign_number": 7,
"start": "1990-08-15T10:30:00",
"end": "1990-09-14T21:00:00"
},
{
"sign": "Scorpio",
"sign_number": 8,
"start": "1990-09-14T21:00:00",
"end": "1990-10-15T07:30:00"
},
{
"sign": "Sagittarius",
"sign_number": 9,
"start": "1990-10-15T07:30:00",
"end": "1990-11-14T18:00:00"
}
]
},
{
"cycle": 1,
"sign": "Libra",
"sign_number": 7,
"years": 9,
"start": "1991-08-15T16:30:00",
"end": "2000-08-14T22:30:00",
"antardasha_direction": "forward",
"antardashas": [
{
"sign": "Scorpio",
"sign_number": 8,
"start": "1991-08-15T16:30:00",
"end": "1992-05-15T15:00:00"
},
{
"sign": "Sagittarius",
"sign_number": 9,
"start": "1992-05-15T15:00:00",
"end": "1993-02-13T13:30:00"
},
{
"sign": "Capricorn",
"sign_number": 10,
"start": "1993-02-13T13:30:00",
"end": "1993-11-14T12:00:00"
}
]
},
{
"cycle": 1,
"sign": "Scorpio",
"sign_number": 8,
"years": 8,
"start": "2000-08-14T22:30:00",
"end": "2008-08-14T22:30:00",
"antardasha_direction": "backward",
"antardashas": [
{
"sign": "Libra",
"sign_number": 7,
"start": "2000-08-14T22:30:00",
"end": "2001-04-15T10:30:00"
},
{
"sign": "Virgo",
"sign_number": 6,
"start": "2001-04-15T10:30:00",
"end": "2001-12-14T22:30:00"
},
{
"sign": "Leo",
"sign_number": 5,
"start": "2001-12-14T22:30:00",
"end": "2002-08-15T10:30:00"
}
]
}
],
"total_years": 144,
"second_cycle_rule": "each sign runs again in the same order for twelve minus its first-cycle years (K. N. Rao). A sign that ran twelve years has no second period",
"antardasha_rule": "twelve equal parts, starting from the sign next to the mahadasha sign and ending with it. They run forward or backward as the sign in the 9th from the mahadasha sign directs. This is the same test that sets the mahadasha direction from the…",
"note": "dates are local civil time at the birth place. Some software repeats the first-cycle years in the second cycle instead. See rulebook JM-09."
}
},
"argala_readings": [
{
"from_house": 4,
"from_sign": "Sagittarius",
"caused_by": [
"Saturn"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 10,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Gemini",
"obstructed_by": [],
"obstructed": false,
"on": "lagna",
"on_sign": "Virgo",
"text": [
"In Jaimini astrology, argala is influence reaching into a sign from planets outside it. They sit 2nd, 4th or 11th from it. Here planets in the fourth from the sign being read reach into it. Nothing in the tenth from it stops them. The…",
"Like all argala, what reaches in brings its own nature, not a verdict. If harsh planets (malefics) are doing the supporting, the matter is supported by exactly those planets. The support tends to feel like them. So look first at which…"
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
},
{
"from_house": 11,
"from_sign": "Cancer",
"caused_by": [
"Sun",
"Jupiter",
"Venus"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 3,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Scorpio",
"obstructed_by": [],
"obstructed": false,
"on": "lagna",
"on_sign": "Virgo",
"text": [
"Argala describes planets reaching into a sign from certain houses around it, namely the 2nd, 4th and 11th. Planets in the eleventh from the sign being read are doing the reaching here. The third from it holds nothing that stops them. The…",
"Of the three, you feel this one most easily, because the eleventh gives rather than just supports. But it gives what the planets doing the reaching stand for. So check what that is before counting it as gain. A harsh planet (a malefic)…"
],
"language": "en",
"detail": "standard"
},
{
"from_house": 2,
"from_sign": "Leo",
"caused_by": [
"Mercury"
],
"obstructed_from_house": 12,
"obstructed_from_sign": "Gemini",
"obstructed_by": [],
"obstructed": false,
"on": "arudha_lagna",
"on_sign": "Cancer",
"text": [
"Argala is the Jaimini name for outside influence. Planets placed 2nd, 4th or 11th from a sign reach into its affairs without sitting in it. Here planets in the second from the sign being read reach in. Nothing in the twelfth stops them. So…",
"Argala describes reach, not quality, so this does not say the matter is good. A harsh planet (a malefic) in the second reaches in just as surely as a helpful one (a benefic). And it brings its own nature with it. So read the planets doing…"
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}What the Jaimini astrology API returns
- The seven chara karakas, from the atmakaraka (the planet that stands for the self) to the darakaraka (the spouse). They are set by each planet's degree, so they change with the birth time.
- The arudha padas A1 to A12, which show how each house appears to the outside world. A1 is the arudha lagna.
- Sign aspects (rashi drishti): signs looking at signs, with no planet involved. They are not the planet aspects that the kundli API returns.
- Argala: the pull on a sign from planets in the 2nd, 4th and 11th signs from it, and what blocks it, with short readings.
- Chara dasha: periods counted in signs, with their direction and every rule the API applied.
- Narayana dasha (POST /v1/dasha/narayana): a second Jaimini dasha run by signs. It shows each test that picked the first sign. It dates two rounds of twelve periods from birth, 144 years in all, and splits each period into 12 sub-periods.
Jaimini works from the same chart as every other endpoint, so its positions always match the birth chart. The texts give several versions of chara dasha. This one uses the common Parashari form, from the classical texts of Parashara, and states each rule so it can be checked.
Jaimini astrology API endpoints
POST /v1/jaiminiJaimini: sign aspects, argala, chara dasha and karakasPOST /v1/dasha/narayanaNarayana dasha: the Jaimini sign periods
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See the plansThe rules behind the Jaimini astrology API
The seven chara karakas are ranked by degree (JM-01). The arudha padas follow the classical count, with its two exceptions (JM-02). Signs aspect signs by group: movable, fixed and dual (JM-03). Argala uses three pairs of signs, not four (JM-04). Chara dasha is stated in full (JM-06). Narayana dasha starts from the stronger of the rising sign and the sign opposite it (JM-10). The 9th sign from there sets its direction (JM-11). What the API does not do yet in Jaimini is listed too (JM-08).
How we check the numbers
Every answer here starts from planet positions worked out from NASA JPL planet data (DE440). We test them against NASA JPL Horizons, NASA's planet position service. On 25,571 positions from 1850 to 2149, the Sun and planets agree within 0.001 arc seconds. The Moon agrees within 0.011. On 2,000 random birth charts, the rising sign agrees with Swiss Ephemeris within 0.004. An arc second is 1/3,600 of a degree. Our tests fail if a result drifts past these figures.
A practicing astrologer reviews the rules behind these answers. Each rule has an ID you can look up in the public rulebook.
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Jaimini astrology API questions
All questionsWhich chara karaka scheme does the Jaimini API use?
The seven-karaka scheme. The planets from the Sun to Saturn are ranked by their degree within their sign, from the atmakaraka down to the darakaraka. Rahu is left out. The eight-karaka variant that adds Rahu changes every role below it, so a chart is read under one scheme only.
What a chara karaka isWhich version of chara dasha does the Jaimini API use?
Chara dasha has several versions that give different periods for the same chart. The API uses the common Parashari form and shows the working for every period. That means its direction, the count from each sign to its ruler, and which ruler counts for Scorpio and Aquarius.
Read rule JM-06Does chara dasha include sub-periods?
No. The response gives the main sign periods, each with its years, its ruler and a short reading, but not the sub-periods inside them. For sub-periods down to five levels, use the Vimshottari dasha endpoint, the main system of planetary periods.
Read rule JM-08How are sign aspects different from the kundli API's aspects?
In Jaimini, signs aspect signs and no planet is involved. Movable and fixed signs aspect each other, skipping the sign next door, and dual signs aspect the other dual signs, always both ways. POST /v1/aspects gives planet aspects counted in whole houses instead.
What drishti isDoes the Jaimini API need an exact birth time?
Yes. The karakas are ranked by degree, so two planets at close degrees can swap roles with a small change in time. The arudha padas, argala and chara dasha also count from the rising sign, which changes about every two hours.
Does the Jaimini API read the atmakaraka in words?
No. POST /v1/jaimini names the seven karakas as data, with short readings for argala and chara dasha. For a written reading built on the atmakaraka, its karakamsa and the Rahu-Ketu axis, call POST /v1/karma, the karmic reading. Both use the same seven-karaka scheme, so they always name the same atmakaraka.
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