BD · Birth details

BD-11: The season and the Sun's half-year, counted two ways

The ritu (season) and ayana (the Sun's half-year, moving north or south) in your birth details follow the solstices and equinoxes, the way the seasons really turn. The lunar-month season and the star-based half-year are given beside them, named.

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Endpoints that apply this rule

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POST	/v1/panchang	Panchang at the birth moment
POST	/v1/planets	Planet positions and the ascendant

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The call for our sample, John Doe, born Aug 15, 1990, 10:30 AM, New York.

POST /v1/panchang

# John Doe, born Aug 15, 1990, 10:30 AM, New York
curl -X POST "https://apiforastrology.com/api/astrology/v1/panchang" \
  -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"}'

Answer (long lists shortened)200 OK

{
  "tithi": {
    "index": 25,
    "name": "Dashami",
    "paksha": "krishna",
    "completion_percent": 64.9975
  },
  "yoga": {
    "index": 14,
    "name": "Harshana",
    "completion_percent": 0.1278
  },
  "karana": {
    "index": 50,
    "name": "Vishti",
    "completion_percent": 29.9949
  },
  "vara": {
    "index": 4,
    "name": "Wednesday",
    "lord": "Mercury"
  },
  "vedic_vara": {
    "index": 4,
    "name": "Wednesday",
    "lord": "Mercury",
    "before_sunrise": false
  },
  "note": "`vara` is the civil weekday; `vedic_vara` runs sunrise to sunrise and is what the vara lord is read from",
  "nakshatra": {
    "name": "Mrigashira",
    "lord": "Mars",
    "pada": 1
  },
  "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"
    }
  }
}

The rule in John Doe's chart

Applies

John Doe was born with the Moon in Mrigashira, pada 1, in Taurus, on a Wednesday in the dark half of the month, in the tithi Dashami. The birth panchang is read at that moment, not for the whole day.

John Doe, born Aug 15, 1990, 10:30 AM, New York

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Classification

Section: BD · Birth details
Kind: school: Traditions differ here; the API follows one stated choice.
Feature: Readings and reports

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John Doe, New York

POST /v1/planets200 OK

RisingVirgoHast
SunCancerAshlesha
MoonTaurusMrigashira
MarsAriesKrittika

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