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Where the nine grahas sit right now, and how to read the table without confusion.
Open Planetary Positions Today (Sidereal / Nirayana) — FreeBilkul free · koi signup nahi · data aapke phone me hi rehta haiThis page shows today's sidereal planetary positions, also called nirayana. Each graha's sign, degree, nakshatra and motion are listed as they are in the real sky, using the Lahiri ayanamsa. This differs from Western tropical positions by about twenty-four degrees, so a planet can sit in a different sign in the two systems.
Planetary positions are the sign and degree each graha occupies in the sky at a given moment. This page lists them for today, in the sidereal or nirayana system used in Vedic astrology. Nirayana means without ayanamsa in effect, which simply means the positions are fixed to the stars rather than to the seasons.
The table shows the nine grahas: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and the two nodes Rahu and Ketu. For each, you see the sign, the exact degree, the nakshatra, and whether it is direct or retrograde. Because the planets keep moving, the table updates as the day changes, which makes it a live snapshot of the sky.
There are two ways to divide the zodiac. The tropical system, used in most Western astrology, starts at the spring equinox and ties the signs to the seasons. The sidereal system, used in Vedic astrology, ties the signs to the fixed stars. Around two thousand years ago the two agreed almost exactly. Since then they have drifted apart.
The cause is a slow wobble of the Earth's axis, called precession, which shifts the equinox point against the stars by about one degree every seventy-two years. The gap is now about twenty-four degrees. That is almost a full sign, which is why your tropical Sun sign and your Vedic Sun sign can differ by one sign, and why two websites sometimes give you two different signs.
The ayanamsa is the angle between the two zodiacs. To get a sidereal position, you take the tropical position and subtract the ayanamsa. Today that angle is roughly twenty-four degrees, and it grows slowly each year. Different schools choose slightly different anchor stars, so several ayanamsas exist and they differ by small amounts.
This app uses the Lahiri ayanamsa, also called Chitrapaksha, which fixes the star Chitra, known as Spica, at 180 degrees. It is the standard adopted by India's Calendar Reform Committee and used in the official Rashtriya Panchang, so it is the most widely followed choice in India. Stating it clearly means you always know which frame the numbers are in.
The sign shows which of the twelve rashis the graha occupies, from Mesha, Aries, to Meena, Pisces. The degree shows how far into that sign it has travelled. The nakshatra is one of the twenty-seven lunar constellations of about thirteen degrees twenty minutes each, and it gives a finer reading of the planet's mood.
The motion column shows whether the planet is direct or retrograde, which means moving backward from our view on Earth. A retrograde planet is read as turned inward, reviewing or revisiting its themes. The table may also flag combustion, where a planet sits too close to the Sun and loses some of its independent strength in a chart.
Start with the Moon and the Sun. The Moon moves fastest, about one sign every two and a half days, and it sets the emotional tone of the day. The Sun marks the month-long season and the general mood of the period. Then look at the slower planets, Jupiter and Saturn, because their sign changes mark big, lasting shifts rather than passing moods.
Check the nakshatra of the Moon especially. If you know the nakshatra you were born under, you can see whether today's Moon supports or challenges your own. Notice any planet that has just changed sign or turned retrograde, because those turning points are where the most noticeable changes tend to gather.
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Free kundli kholoRetrograde planets get a bad name online, and it is undeserved. A retrograde planet is not weak or evil. It is a planet whose themes turn inward. When Mercury is retrograde, communication and travel ask for more care and review rather than being cursed. When Saturn is retrograde, old duties resurface for a second look.
Combustion is similar. A planet close to the Sun is said to be combust, meaning its light is overwhelmed by the Sun's. In a chart this shows an area where ego or authority overshadows the planet's normal function. Neither retrograde nor combustion is a reason to panic. They are conditions to read carefully, not omens.
Use the positions as a gentle planner, not a fortune teller. If the Moon is in a sign that suits emotional and family matters, that is a good day for a heart-to-heart. If Mercury is retrograde, double-check messages, contracts and travel plans before you send or sign them. If Mars is strong, channel the energy into exercise or hard tasks rather than arguments.
You can also watch for the Moon's nakshatra when you have something important to do, and pick a day whose tone fits the work. Keep a small note of how such days actually felt for you. Over a few weeks you build your own feel for the sky, which is far more useful than memorising rules.
The biggest mistake is mixing systems. A person reads a Western horoscope for their tropical Sun sign and then checks a Vedic table, and the two seem to contradict each other. They do not. They are simply measured from different starting points, so always know which system you are reading.
The second mistake is panicking at the word retrograde or the word combust without reading the whole chart. A single condition rarely decides anything. The third is treating one planet's position as fate while ignoring the houses and the dasha. Positions are one layer of a much larger picture, and they gain their meaning only in context.
Suppose today's table shows the Sun at about seven degrees of Kanya, Virgo, and the Moon in Vrishchika, Scorpio. The Sun in Virgo points to a period of detail, work and health routines. The Moon in Scorpio brings intensity and depth, so feelings run strong and people may be private or probing today.
Now imagine the table also shows Mercury retrograde. The practical reading is simple: a good day for finishing and reviewing detailed work, but not the day to fire off a rushed message or finalise a contract without checking it twice. Notice how three lines from the table, read together, gave a usable plan for the day without any prediction of events.
Today's positions are the moving background. Your kundli is the fixed starting point, and the transits in this table are read against your birth chart to see which areas of life are being activated now. The panchang uses the same Sun and Moon positions to build the daily almanac, so the two pages agree by design.
In three years of practice and over a thousand charts read, I find the positions most useful as a calm daily habit and the kundli most useful for the big questions. If a transit is raising something important and you want to know what it means for your own chart, a personal consultation is available from 499 to 2,000 rupees, while these free tools stay free for everyone.
Because the two systems start from different points. Western tropical astrology fixes the zodiac to the spring equinox, while Vedic sidereal astrology fixes it to the stars. They have drifted apart by about twenty-four degrees, so your Sun can fall in one sign earlier.
Nirayana means sidereal, positions measured against the fixed stars, which is the Vedic system. Sayana means tropical, positions measured from the equinox, used in Western astrology. The difference between them is the ayanamsa, about twenty-four degrees in the current era.
It uses the Lahiri ayanamsa, also called Chitrapaksha. This is the standard of India's Calendar Reform Committee and the official Rashtriya Panchang, and it is the most widely followed choice among practising Vedic astrologers in India today. Other schools use slightly different ayanamsas.
No. Retrograde simply means a planet appears to move backward from Earth, and it is read as turned inward, reviewing its themes. It is a condition to read carefully, not a curse. A retrograde planet is neither weak nor evil on its own.
The Moon changes sign about every two and a half days, the Sun about once a month, and the slower planets Jupiter and Saturn far less often. So the table shifts noticeably within a day for the Moon, and slowly for the outer grahas.
Yes. The positions describe the general mood of the day, so anyone can read them. But to know what a transit means for you personally, you need your own kundli, because the same transit affects different people in different ways.
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