Chart basics
KP astrology (Krishnamurti Paddhati) in Vedic astrology
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KP astrology: how the API computes it
POST /v1/kp returns a birth chart the way KP reads it. It uses the Krishnamurti ayanamsa, about 6 arc minutes less than Lahiri (KP-01). The ayanamsa in your request is ignored here, and the response names the one it used.
Houses come from Placidus cusps, the points where each house begins (KP-04). This is the only endpoint that uses Placidus. Every other endpoint keeps whole-sign houses, so a house number here is not a house number anywhere else.
A planet is in the house from its cusp up to the next cusp (KP-05). Each planet and each cusp gets its sign lord, star lord, sub lord and sub-sub lord. For each house, the significators are the planets that give its results. They come in four levels, strongest first, and the levels are not scored (KP-06).
Ruling planets are worked out for the birth moment, and the response says so (KP-07). This route reads a birth chart, so it has no horary number and no ruling planets for another moment. POST /v1/prashna/kp has both (KP-08).
Get it from the API
POST /v1/kp
# John Doe, born Aug 15, 1990, 10:30 AM, New York
curl -X POST "https://apiforastrology.com/api/astrology/v1/kp" \
-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"}'{
"ayanamsa": {
"name": "Krishnamurti (KP)",
"value": 23.6292203,
"degree_dms": "23 : 37 : 45",
"lahiri_minus_kp": 0.0968524
},
"house_system": "Placidus",
"cusps": [
{
"cusp": 1,
"longitude": 170.0310074,
"degree_in_sign": 20.0310074,
"degree_dms": "20 : 01 : 52",
"sign": "Virgo",
"sign_number": 6,
"sign_lord": "Mercury",
"nakshatra": "Hast",
"star_lord": "Moon",
"sub_lord": "Ketu",
"sub_sub_lord": "Rahu",
"sub_number": 118
},
{
"cusp": 2,
"longitude": 197.1046796,
"degree_in_sign": 17.1046796,
"degree_dms": "17 : 06 : 17",
"sign": "Libra",
"sign_number": 7,
"sign_lord": "Venus",
"nakshatra": "Swati",
"star_lord": "Rahu",
"sub_lord": "Venus",
"sub_sub_lord": "Mercury",
"sub_number": 135
},
{
"cusp": 3,
"longitude": 228.2508656,
"degree_in_sign": 18.2508656,
"degree_dms": "18 : 15 : 03",
"sign": "Scorpio",
"sign_number": 8,
"sign_lord": "Mars",
"nakshatra": "Jyeshtha",
"star_lord": "Mercury",
"sub_lord": "Mercury",
"sub_sub_lord": "Jupiter",
"sub_number": 158
}
],
"planets": [
{
"graha": "Sun",
"longitude": 118.8721933,
"degree_in_sign": 28.8721933,
"degree_dms": "28 : 52 : 20",
"sign": "Cancer",
"sign_number": 4,
"sign_lord": "Moon",
"nakshatra": "Ashlesha",
"star_lord": "Mercury",
"sub_lord": "Saturn",
"sub_sub_lord": "Venus",
"sub_number": 83,
"house": 11,
"retrograde": false
},
{
"graha": "Moon",
"longitude": 54.6718876,
"degree_in_sign": 24.6718876,
"degree_dms": "24 : 40 : 19",
"sign": "Taurus",
"sign_number": 2,
"sign_lord": "Venus",
"nakshatra": "Mrigashira",
"star_lord": "Mars",
"sub_lord": "Rahu",
"sub_sub_lord": "Jupiter",
"sub_number": 39,
"house": 9,
"retrograde": false
},
{
"graha": "Mars",
"longitude": 27.8117852,
"degree_in_sign": 27.8117852,
"degree_dms": "27 : 48 : 42",
"sign": "Aries",
"sign_number": 1,
"sign_lord": "Mars",
"nakshatra": "Krittika",
"star_lord": "Sun",
"sub_lord": "Moon",
"sub_sub_lord": "Saturn",
"sub_number": 20,
"house": 8,
"retrograde": false
}
],
"significators": {
"by_house": {
"1": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [],
"occupants": [],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
"Sun"
],
"cusp_lord": "Mercury"
},
"2": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [],
"occupants": [],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
"Mercury",
"Saturn"
],
"cusp_lord": "Venus"
},
"3": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [],
"occupants": [],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
"Moon"
],
"cusp_lord": "Mars"
},
"4": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [
"Jupiter",
"Venus",
"Ketu"
],
"occupants": [
"Saturn",
"Rahu"
],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [],
"cusp_lord": "Jupiter"
},
"5": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [],
"occupants": [],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
"Jupiter",
"Venus",
"Ketu"
],
"cusp_lord": "Saturn"
},
"6": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [],
"occupants": [],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
"Jupiter",
"Venus",
"Ketu"
],
"cusp_lord": "Saturn"
},
"7": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [],
"occupants": [],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [],
"cusp_lord": "Jupiter"
},
"8": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [
"Moon"
],
"occupants": [
"Mars"
],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
"Moon"
],
"cusp_lord": "Mars"
},
"9": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [
"Rahu"
],
"occupants": [
"Moon"
],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
"Mercury",
"Saturn"
],
"cusp_lord": "Venus"
},
"10": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [
"Mercury",
"Saturn"
],
"occupants": [
"Jupiter",
"Venus",
"Ketu"
],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
"Sun"
],
"cusp_lord": "Mercury"
},
"11": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [
"Mars"
],
"occupants": [
"Sun"
],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
"Rahu"
],
"cusp_lord": "Moon"
},
"12": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [
"Sun"
],
"occupants": [
"Mercury"
],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
"Mars"
],
"cusp_lord": "Sun"
}
},
"by_planet": {
"Sun": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [
12
],
"occupants": [
11
],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
1,
10
],
"cusp_lord": [
12
],
"all": [
1,
10,
11
]
},
"Moon": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [
8
],
"occupants": [
9
],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
3,
8
],
"cusp_lord": [
11
],
"all": [
3,
8,
9
]
},
"Mars": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [
11
],
"occupants": [
8
],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
12
],
"cusp_lord": [
3,
8
],
"all": [
3,
8,
11
]
},
"Mercury": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [
10
],
"occupants": [
12
],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
2,
9
],
"cusp_lord": [
1,
10
],
"all": [
1,
2,
9
]
},
"Jupiter": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [
4
],
"occupants": [
10
],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
5,
6
],
"cusp_lord": [
4,
7
],
"all": [
4,
5,
6
]
},
"Venus": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [
4
],
"occupants": [
10
],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
5,
6
],
"cusp_lord": [
2,
9
],
"all": [
2,
4,
5
]
},
"Saturn": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [
10
],
"occupants": [
4
],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
2,
9
],
"cusp_lord": [
5,
6
],
"all": [
2,
4,
5
]
},
"Rahu": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [
9
],
"occupants": [
4
],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
11
],
"cusp_lord": [],
"all": [
4,
9,
11
]
},
"Ketu": {
"in_star_of_occupants": [
4
],
"occupants": [
10
],
"in_star_of_cusp_lord": [
5,
6
],
"cusp_lord": [],
"all": [
4,
5,
6
]
}
},
"levels": [
"in_star_of_occupants",
"occupants",
"in_star_of_cusp_lord"
]
},
"ruling_planets": {
"day_lord": "Mercury",
"lagna_sign_lord": "Mercury",
"lagna_star_lord": "Moon",
"lagna_sub_lord": "Ketu",
"moon_sign_lord": "Venus",
"moon_star_lord": "Mars",
"moon_sub_lord": "Rahu",
"grahas": [
"Mercury",
"Moon",
"Ketu"
],
"for": "birth moment",
"at": "1990-08-15T10:30:00"
},
"part_of_fortune": {
"point": "part_of_fortune",
"longitude": 105.8307017,
"degree_in_sign": 15.8307017,
"degree_dms": "15 : 49 : 51",
"sign": "Cancer",
"sign_number": 4,
"sign_lord": "Moon",
"nakshatra": "Pushya",
"star_lord": "Saturn",
"sub_lord": "Jupiter",
"sub_sub_lord": "Venus",
"sub_number": 74,
"house": 10,
"formula": "ascendant + moon - sun",
"sun_above_horizon": true,
"sources_agree": true,
"other_formula": {
"formula": "ascendant + sun - moon",
"used_by": "Western and Tajik practice, for night births only",
"applies_here": false
}
},
"not_computed": {
"significator_grading": "KP software often grades each house a planet signifies from \"very strong\" to \"weak\". The weights behind those grades differ between programs and none comes from Krishnamurti, so the four levels are returned as lists and not scored.",
"node_agency": "In KP, Rahu and Ketu also give the results of the sign lord and of planets joined with or aspecting them. Sources differ on which associations count, so the nodes are listed only where they themselves occupy a house or sit in a star.",
"ruling_planets_now": "The ruling planets here are for the birth moment only. For the moment a question is asked, use `POST /v1/prashna/kp`.",
"horary_numbers": "This route takes no horary number (a number from 1 to 249 chosen by the person asking). `sub_number` only says which of the 249 pieces a point falls in. For a horary number, use `POST /v1/prashna/kp`."
},
"meta": {
"ayanamsa": "krishnamurti",
"ayanamsa_value": 23.6292203,
"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/kp | Krishnamurti Paddhati: cusps, sub lords, significators |
What the API reference says
Each line is quoted from the reference page of the endpoint named above it.
- POST /v1/kp · Krishnamurti Paddhati: cusps, sub lords, significatorsReturns the birth chart as Krishnamurti Paddhati (KP) reads it.
- kp endpointsKrishnamurti Paddhati (KP) is a school of its own.
Feature page: Kundli and birth charts. Who uses it: Astrologer consultation platforms. The classical rules the API follows are in the rulebook.
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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