प्रश्न

Ask the Chart — on paper

Write your questions in your own words. Each answer is read out of your own computed chart and shows the house, the graha and the dasha period it came from — so you can check it rather than believe it.

3 for $9.99 · 10 for $24.99 · 25 for $49.99 · a full page for each · answers, not predictions

✶ Swiss Ephemeris · Lahiri ayanamsa — stated on every page ✶

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Your birth, and your questions

Date of birth

Time of birth

I don't know the time

Then noon is used, and the answers change in a specific way you should know about: the ascendant and the houses move through the day, so anything that depends on a house — and most questions do — becomes approximate. The grahas by sign stay right. Every answer built on an assumed time says so on its face.

City of birth The town or city, as you'd say it. Nearest large city is fine.

Your questions — one per line

Write them in English or Hindi, in your own words. A sentence each.

Name — for the cover page only Printed on the PDF's cover, and that is all it is used for. The chart is computed from the birth, not the name.

Your answers is emailed to you as well as downloaded here — so a closed tab can never cost you what you paid for.

Keep an encrypted copy of what I typed, so this order can be looked up if something goes wrong.

Email address

A copy in your inbox is a copy on your mail provider's servers and on ours, and it stays there. The download does not — it exists on your own machine and nowhere else. Emailing it is the better way to still have it next year and the worse way to keep it private. We send it and drop the address; there is no list to be added to.

Then we keep exactly four things — name, date, time, city — encrypted, for 24 months, and nothing else. Not your questions. Not the answers. It can only be found by the reference number we give you when it finishes: there is no way for us to search it by your name. Ask us and it is deleted.

Twelve seconds — one for each bhava. Stay on this page; the answers arrive as a download when the count finishes.

Reading your chart

Placing your birth city and its time zone on that date
Computing the sky at your exact minute — nine grahas and the ascendant
Building your Vimshottari dasha tree
Matching each question to the bhavas and karakas that speak to it
Reading the answers out, with the line each one came from

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One second for each of the twelve bhavas — the twelve houses your questions are being read against. The engine finishes well before the count does; the wait is there because an answer about your marriage that lands faster than you can read the button reads like a lookup, and it is not one. The steps above are the real sequence in the real order.

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Were the answers any good? Thirty seconds, and we'll answer three more free.

Would you have paid for this?

Anything wrong, or anything you'd want added?

Please don't put your birth details or your email in this box. It is the one field on this page we keep, and we keep it without knowing who wrote it — so there would be nobody for us to write back to. Anything that looks like a date, a time, a phone number or an address is stripped out before it is saved. If you need a reply, write to — instead.

What an answer here actually is

Your question does not produce the answer. It chooses which part of your chart is read out. That is the whole architecture, and it is the opposite of how these things are usually built:

गणना पहलेThe chart is computed first — your nine grahas, your ascendant, your Vimshottari dasha tree. All of it exists before your question is looked at, and none of it is influenced by what you asked.

विषयYour question is matched to a topic — by the words in it, and the answer prints which words matched. "We matched this to MARRIAGE because it contains 'shaadi'" is a sentence you can agree or disagree with. A cleverer method would guess better and leave you no way to check, and for this product being checkable beats being right.

प्रमाणEvery answer shows its working — the house, the graha, the dasha window, the classical rule. Not a citation stapled to the bottom: the actual line of your chart the sentence was read from.

पता नहीं"Your chart does not say" is a real answer — and when it happens, that question is marked unanswered and is not counted against your pack. One honest refusal is worth more than five fluent answers that were invented, and you should not pay for the invention.

Nothing here is a prediction and nothing here is advice. It is a reading of what your chart contains, in plain words, with the source of every statement printed beside it. Your birth details go the same place they go everywhere else on this site: nowhere, unless you tick a box below and ask.

Fair questions about the questions

What if my question doesn't match anything? The answer says so, in plain words, and names what it looked for. That question is marked unanswered and is not counted against your pack — you keep it for something else.

Can I ask the same thing twice, differently? You can, and it will usually read out the same houses, because it is the same chart. Spending two of a pack on one topic is allowed and is rarely worth it.

Why is a pack of 10 not three times the price of 3? Because the chart is computed once either way. The cost of the tenth answer is the writing, not the astronomy, and the price says so.

Is this a person? No. Nobody at Darshan reads your questions — there is nowhere for them to be read. What answers you is the same engine that computes the booklet, reading your own chart back to you.

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