SL · Special lagnas
SL-02: When sunrise is taken
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| POST | /v1/special-lagnas | Special lagnas, the yogi point, Jaimini lords and dagdha signs |
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POST /v1/special-lagnas
# John Doe, born Aug 15, 1990, 10:30 AM, New York
curl -X POST "https://apiforastrology.com/api/astrology/v1/special-lagnas" \
-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"}'{
"reckoned_from": {
"sunrise": "1990-08-15T06:10:44-04:00",
"sun_at_sunrise": {
"longitude": 118.6023214,
"sign": "Cancer",
"sign_number": 4,
"degree_in_sign": 28.6023214,
"degree_dms": "28 : 36 : 08",
"nakshatra": "Ashlesha",
"nakshatra_lord": "Mercury",
"pada": 4
},
"ishtakaal": {
"minutes": 259.262,
"ghatis": 10.802583,
"ghati_pala_vipala": "10:48:09"
},
"sunrise_convention": "the center of the Sun crossing the true horizon, without refraction (the bending of light by the air) -- the classical astrological sunrise. Civil calendars print the moment the top edge appears, three to four minutes earlier. That gap…"
},
"bhava_lagna": {
"longitude": 183.4178209,
"sign": "Libra",
"sign_number": 7,
"degree_in_sign": 3.4178209,
"degree_dms": "03 : 25 : 04",
"nakshatra": "Chitra",
"nakshatra_lord": "Mars",
"pada": 4,
"rule": "the Sun at sunrise plus one sign per 5 ghatis"
},
"hora_lagna": {
"longitude": 248.2333205,
"sign": "Sagittarius",
"sign_number": 9,
"degree_in_sign": 8.2333205,
"degree_dms": "08 : 14 : 00",
"nakshatra": "Mool",
"nakshatra_lord": "Ketu",
"pada": 3,
"rule": "the Sun at sunrise plus one sign per 2.5 ghatis"
},
"ghati_lagna": {
"longitude": 82.6798191,
"sign": "Gemini",
"sign_number": 3,
"degree_in_sign": 22.6798191,
"degree_dms": "22 : 40 : 47",
"nakshatra": "Punarvasu",
"nakshatra_lord": "Jupiter",
"pada": 1,
"rule": "the Sun at sunrise plus one sign per ghati"
},
"pranapada": {
"longitude": 335.0853317,
"sign": "Pisces",
"sign_number": 12,
"degree_in_sign": 5.0853317,
"degree_dms": "05 : 05 : 07",
"nakshatra": "Uttara Bhadrapada",
"nakshatra_lord": "Saturn",
"pada": 1,
"sun_sign_quality": "movable",
"rule": "two degrees per pala (24 seconds) since sunrise. When the Sun is in a movable sign they are added to the Sun. In a fixed sign they are added to the 9th from it, and in a dual sign to the 5th"
},
"indu_lagna": {
"sign": "Taurus",
"sign_number": 2,
"ninth_lord_from_lagna": "Venus",
"ninth_lord_from_moon": "Saturn",
"kalas": 13,
"rule": "kalas of the two 9th lords, reduced by twelve, counted from the Moon's sign. A sign with no degree"
},
"varnada_lagna": {
"sign": "Aquarius",
"sign_number": 11,
"combined": "differenced",
"rule": "BPHS: counts from Aries for an odd sign and back from Pisces for an even one, for the lagna and the hora lagna. Added if both signs are odd or both even, else the difference is taken. The result is counted the lagna's way"
},
"yogi": {
"yogi_point": {
"longitude": 266.6837094,
"sign": "Sagittarius",
"sign_number": 9,
"degree_in_sign": 26.6837094,
"degree_dms": "26 : 41 : 01",
"nakshatra": "Uttara Ashadha",
"nakshatra_lord": "Sun",
"pada": 1
},
"yogi": "Sun",
"duplicate_yogi": "Jupiter",
"avayogi": "Saturn",
"avayogi_point": {
"longitude": 93.3503761,
"sign": "Cancer",
"sign_number": 4,
"degree_in_sign": 3.3503761,
"degree_dms": "03 : 21 : 01",
"nakshatra": "Pushya",
"nakshatra_lord": "Saturn",
"pada": 1
}
},
"jaimini": {
"atmakaraka": "Sun",
"maheshwara": {
"graha": "Saturn",
"from_sign": "Aquarius",
"atmakaraka": "Sun",
"rule": "lord of the 8th sign from the atmakaraka",
"not_applied": [
"the exception for an atmakaraka in its own or exaltation sign, and for a node joining the 8th lord, which texts state differently"
]
},
"rudra": {
"graha": "Venus",
"from_sign": "Libra",
"lord_of_2nd": "Venus",
"lord_of_8th": "Mars",
"stronger_lord": "Venus",
"weaker_lord": "Mars",
"decided_by": "the atmakaraka is in it",
"malefics_on_stronger": [
"Mars"
],
"malefics_on_weaker": [],
"flipped": false,
"rule": "the stronger of the 2nd and 8th lords, by the rashi bala of the signs they sit in: atmakaraka, then more grahas, then rashi drishti from the sign's lord, Jupiter or Mercury, then dual over fixed over movable. A tie keeps the 8th lord. The…",
"disputed": [
{
"reading": "compare the 2nd and 8th signs themselves, not the signs the lords sit in",
"graha": "Venus",
"agrees": true
},
{
"reading": "malefic aspect read by rashi drishti, not graha drishti",
"graha": "Venus",
"agrees": true
},
{
"reading": "the nodes cast graha drishti too (5th, 7th and 9th)",
"graha": "Venus",
"agrees": true
}
]
},
"brahma": {
"from_sign": "Virgo",
"start_decided_by": "tie; the lagna kept",
"candidates": [
{
"graha": "Saturn",
"lord_of": 6,
"sign": "Sagittarius",
"house": 4,
"odd_sign": true,
"odd_house": false,
"visible_half": false,
"passes": false
},
{
"graha": "Mars",
"lord_of": 8,
"sign": "Aries",
"house": 8,
"odd_sign": true,
"odd_house": false,
"visible_half": true,
"passes": true
},
{
"graha": "Sun",
"lord_of": 12,
"sign": "Cancer",
"house": 11,
"odd_sign": false,
"odd_house": true,
"visible_half": true,
"passes": false
}
],
"stage": "primary",
"rule": "from the stronger of the lagna and the 7th (rashi bala), the lords of the 6th, 8th and 12th. The strongest in an odd sign and houses 7-12 wins (primary); failing that, the strongest in an odd sign from any house (hemisphere dropped);…",
"disputed": [],
"chosen_by": "the only one that qualifies",
"graha": "Mars",
"found": true
}
},
"dagdha_rashis": {
"tithi": {
"name": "Dashami",
"index": 25,
"paksha": "krishna"
},
"burnt_signs": [
"Leo",
"Scorpio"
],
"rule": "the signs burnt by the birth tithi; Purnima and Amavasya burn none"
},
"not_computed": {
"jaimini_hora_lagna": "One outside report prints a separate Jaimini hora lagna. For one chart it matches the Parashari one. For another, it is the Parashari arc counted from the lagna instead of the Sun. No cited rule produces both, so none is invented (SL-04).",
"sree_lagna": "Not in BPHS. The formula in use has no outside figure here to check it against."
},
"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
John Doe was born about 4 hours 24 minutes after sunrise. That puts his hora lagna in Sagittarius and his ghati lagna at 28 degrees of Gemini. His yogi point falls in Uttara Ashadha, a star the Sun rules, so his yogi is the Sun and his avayogi is Saturn.
John Doe, born Aug 15, 1990, 10:30 AM, New York
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