Chart basics
Drishti (aspect) in Vedic astrology
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Drishti: how the API computes it
The API counts a planet's aspects in whole houses, using the whole-sign houses of the chart. Count the planet's own house as 1 and move forward. Every planet looks at the 7th house.
Mars also looks at the 4th and 8th (AS-03), Jupiter at the 5th and 9th, and Saturn at the 3rd and 10th. Rahu and Ketu, the two nodes, are given the 5th, 7th and 9th. Schools disagree on the nodes, so POST /v1/aspects accepts nodes=false to leave them out (AS-05).
The response lists which planet aspects which house, and which planets sit in that house. An aspect is one-way: Jupiter can look at Mars without Mars looking at Jupiter. Aspects feed other results, such as yogas (special planet combinations) and the Jaimini reading.
Jaimini is a separate classical school, and its rule is different: it works by sign. So the API keeps the two methods apart.
Get it from the API
POST /v1/aspects
# John Doe, born Aug 15, 1990, 10:30 AM, New York
curl -X POST "https://apiforastrology.com/api/astrology/v1/aspects" \
-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"}'{
"by_graha": {
"Sun": {
"house": 11,
"aspects_houses": [
5
],
"aspects_grahas": [
"Rahu"
],
"aspected_by": [
"Mars",
"Rahu"
],
"special": []
},
"Moon": {
"house": 9,
"aspects_houses": [
3
],
"aspects_grahas": [],
"aspected_by": [
"Rahu"
],
"special": []
},
"Mars": {
"house": 8,
"aspects_houses": [
11,
2,
3
],
"aspects_grahas": [
"Sun",
"Jupiter",
"Venus"
],
"aspected_by": [],
"special": [
4,
8
]
},
"Mercury": {
"house": 12,
"aspects_houses": [
6
],
"aspects_grahas": [],
"aspected_by": [],
"special": []
},
"Jupiter": {
"house": 11,
"aspects_houses": [
3,
5,
7
],
"aspects_grahas": [
"Rahu"
],
"aspected_by": [
"Mars",
"Rahu"
],
"special": [
5,
9
]
},
"Venus": {
"house": 11,
"aspects_houses": [
5
],
"aspects_grahas": [
"Rahu"
],
"aspected_by": [
"Mars",
"Rahu"
],
"special": []
},
"Saturn": {
"house": 4,
"aspects_houses": [
6,
10,
1
],
"aspects_grahas": [],
"aspected_by": [],
"special": [
3,
10
]
},
"Rahu": {
"house": 5,
"aspects_houses": [
9,
11,
1
],
"aspects_grahas": [
"Moon",
"Sun",
"Jupiter"
],
"aspected_by": [
"Sun",
"Jupiter",
"Venus"
],
"special": []
},
"Ketu": {
"house": 11,
"aspects_houses": [
3,
5,
7
],
"aspects_grahas": [
"Rahu"
],
"aspected_by": [
"Mars",
"Rahu"
],
"special": []
}
},
"by_house": {
"1": [
"Saturn",
"Rahu"
],
"2": [
"Mars"
],
"3": [
"Moon",
"Mars",
"Jupiter"
],
"4": [],
"5": [
"Sun",
"Jupiter",
"Venus"
],
"6": [
"Mercury",
"Saturn"
],
"7": [
"Jupiter",
"Ketu"
],
"8": [],
"9": [
"Rahu"
],
"10": [
"Saturn"
],
"11": [
"Mars",
"Rahu"
],
"12": []
},
"rule": "whole-house drishti, counted inclusively from the occupied house; every graha aspects the 7th, with special aspects for Mars (4, 8), Jupiter (5, 9) and Saturn (3, 10)",
"include_nodes": true,
"graded": {
"unit": "virupas",
"by_graha": {
"Sun": {
"on_grahas": {
"Moon": 2.1,
"Mars": 15.53,
"Mercury": 0,
"Jupiter": 0,
"Venus": 0,
"Saturn": 2.65,
"Rahu": 29.47,
"Ketu": 0
},
"on_houses": {
"1": 10.58,
"2": 36.16,
"3": 34.42,
"4": 8.84,
"5": 42.32,
"6": 49.42,
"7": 34.42,
"8": 19.42,
"9": 4.42,
"10": 0,
"11": 0,
"12": 0
}
},
"Moon": {
"on_grahas": {
"Sun": 19.2,
"Mars": 0,
"Mercury": 44.41,
"Jupiter": 5.56,
"Venus": 6.88,
"Saturn": 44.22,
"Rahu": 35.53,
"Ketu": 9.47
},
"on_houses": {
"1": 32.32,
"2": 4.64,
"3": 50.72,
"4": 47.32,
"5": 32.32,
"6": 17.32,
"7": 2.32,
"8": 0,
"9": 0,
"10": 0,
"11": 12.68,
"12": 40.36
}
},
"Venus": {
"on_grahas": {
"Sun": 0,
"Moon": 0,
"Mars": 5.31,
"Mercury": 8.71,
"Jupiter": 0,
"Saturn": 35.6,
"Rahu": 57.41,
"Ketu": 0
},
"on_houses": {
"1": 26.61,
"2": 39.2,
"3": 18.39,
"4": 23.22,
"5": 54.2,
"6": 39.2,
"7": 24.2,
"8": 9.2,
"9": 0,
"10": 0,
"11": 0,
"12": 5.8
}
},
"Jupiter": {
"on_grahas": {
"Sun": 0,
"Moon": 0,
"Mars": 3.99,
"Mercury": 10.03,
"Venus": 0,
"Saturn": 40.87,
"Rahu": 56.09,
"Ketu": 0
},
"on_houses": {
"1": 29.24,
"2": 52.12,
"3": 45.76,
"4": 28.49,
"5": 52.88,
"6": 52.12,
"7": 45.76,
"8": 7.88,
"9": 0,
"10": 0,
"11": 0,
"12": 7.12
}
},
"Mercury": {
"on_grahas": {
"Sun": 0,
"Moon": 15.59,
"Mars": 29.02,
"Jupiter": 0,
"Venus": 0,
"Saturn": 29.62,
"Rahu": 12.24,
"Ketu": 0
},
"on_houses": {
"1": 0,
"2": 12.09,
"3": 39.19,
"4": 32.91,
"5": 5.81,
"6": 48.37,
"7": 47.91,
"8": 32.91,
"9": 17.91,
"10": 2.91,
"11": 0,
"12": 0
}
},
"Mars": {
"on_grahas": {
"Sun": 58.94,
"Moon": 0,
"Mercury": 31.97,
"Jupiter": 26.96,
"Venus": 30.92,
"Saturn": 31.59,
"Rahu": 22.1,
"Ketu": 38.69
},
"on_houses": {
"1": 7.78,
"2": 44.44,
"3": 60,
"4": 37.78,
"5": 18.89,
"6": 3.89,
"7": 0,
"8": 0,
"9": 0,
"10": 11.11,
"11": 48.33,
"12": 37.78
}
},
"Saturn": {
"on_grahas": {
"Sun": 43.68,
"Moon": 1.55,
"Mars": 28.41,
"Mercury": 30.19,
"Jupiter": 55.22,
"Venus": 53.9,
"Rahu": 0,
"Ketu": 51.31
},
"on_houses": {
"1": 53.81,
"2": 12.38,
"3": 0,
"4": 0,
"5": 0,
"6": 47.62,
"7": 48.1,
"8": 33.1,
"9": 6.19,
"10": 47.62,
"11": 48.1,
"12": 33.1
}
}
},
"house_reference": "equal houses: the madhya (middle) of house N is the ascendant degree plus 30 x (N - 1), the same reference shadbala uses; not Sripati cusps",
"casts_none": [
"Rahu",
"Ketu"
],
"rule": "the graded drishti curve of shadbala (SB-09): 0 below 30 degrees, full at 180, nothing past 300; special aspects of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn graded by degree, full only at the center of each band"
},
"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"
}
}
}Where the API returns it
| POST | /v1/aspects | Planet aspects (graha drishti) |
| POST | /v1/jaimini | Jaimini: sign aspects, argala, chara dasha and karakas |
| POST | /v1/prashna | Question chart (prashna): one question, read for the moment it is asked |
| POST | /v1/reading/rules | Rules this chart triggers, ranked |
| POST | /v1/varshaphal | The Tajik annual chart (varshaphal) for one year |
| POST | /v1/yogas | Yogas: planetary combinations found and not found |
What the API reference says
Each line is quoted from the reference page of the endpoint named above it.
- POST /v1/jaimini · Jaimini: sign aspects, argala, chara dasha and karakasSigns aspect signs, instead of planets aspecting houses.
- POST /v1/aspects · Planet aspects (graha drishti)Returns which houses and planets each planet aspects.
- POST /v1/prashna · Question chart (prashna): one question, read for the moment it is askedThe response says how each stands (
asker,quesited), whether the two are linked (connection), how the Moon stands (moon), and which planets occupy or aspect each house (influences). - POST /v1/varshaphal · The Tajik annual chart (varshaphal) for one year
year_lord(the varsheshwar) is the strongest office-bearer that aspects the annual lagna, is not the Moon and holds at least 5 of 20 vishwa (a strength score out of 20).
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How we check the numbers
Every value 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 arc seconds. An arc second is 1/3,600 of a degree. A practicing astrologer reviews the rules behind these answers. See how we test.
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