Divisional charts (vargas)
Rasi (D1) in Vedic astrology
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Rasi: how the API computes it
The rasi chart, D1, is the birth chart itself. Each sign is taken as one whole part. So each planet stays in the sidereal (Vedic) sign where POST /v1/planets puts it.
POST /v1/chart/D1 returns the ascendant and every planet with the sign and the house in this chart. It uses whole-sign houses counted from the ascendant, the rising sign (CH-06). Every other divisional chart is built from these positions.
A divisional chart splits each sign into smaller parts to look at one topic. That is why D1 is the base for all the others. The API supports 16 divisional charts, listed by GET /v1/meta (VG-01).
In the path you can write D1, d1 or just 1. The signifies field says what the chart is used for. For D1 it is the body and life as a whole.
A good habit is to read the D1 chart first. Then read the divisional chart for the topic you care about. Then look at how the planets compare between them.
For example, a planet in the same sign in D1 and D9 (the navamsa) is vargottama, which is read as stronger. The karma reading counts the karakamsa from the D1 ascendant, not from the D9 one. The karakamsa is the D9 sign of the planet farthest through its sign.
Get it from the API
POST /v1/chart/D1
# John Doe, born Aug 15, 1990, 10:30 AM, New York
curl -X POST "https://apiforastrology.com/api/astrology/v1/chart/D1" \
-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"}'Where the API returns it
| POST | /v1/chart/{division} | Any of the 16 divisional charts (D1 to D60) |
| GET | /v1/meta | Supported options and limits |
| POST | /v1/chart/svg | The birth chart or any divisional chart as an SVG or PNG image |
| POST | /v1/karma | Karma reading: what you bring and where you are headed |
| POST | /v1/spiritual | Spiritual path reading: devotion and release |
What the API reference says
Each line is quoted from the reference page of the endpoint named above it.
- POST /v1/chart/{division} · Any of the 16 divisional charts (D1 to D60)Each chart is read for one area of life: for example, D9 (navamsa) for the spouse and D10 (dasamsa) for career.
- POST /v1/chart/svg · The birth chart or any divisional chart as an SVG or PNG image
chart=D1(the default) is the main birth chart. - POST /v1/karma · Karma reading: what you bring and where you are headedThe karakamsa sign is read as a house counted from the ascendant of the main birth chart (D1), not of the navamsa.
- POST /v1/spiritual · Spiritual path reading: devotion and releaseThe grahas in the 12th from the karakamsa are counted in the rasi chart (D1) and in the navamsa (D9), because schools differ.
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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John Doe, New York
- RisingVirgoHast
- SunCancerAshlesha
- MoonTaurusMrigashira
- MarsAriesKrittika
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