Varshphal: your annual chart

Enter your birth details to see your Varshphal, the Tajik annual horoscope. It shows the exact moment your year begins, the chart for that moment, where the Muntha falls, the office-bearers of the year and the Mudda dasha that runs through it. Step forward or back a year with the buttons.

How the year chart is made

In the Tajik system, each year of life begins at the varsha pravesh: the moment the Sun returns to the exact sidereal longitude it had at your birth. This usually falls within a day of your birthday, but not at the same clock time, because a year is not a whole number of days. The chart cast for that moment is the varsha kundli, and its rising sign is the year Lagna.

Most astrologers cast it for the birth place; some prefer the place where the person lives during that year. You can choose either.

Muntha

The Muntha begins in the sign of your birth Lagna and moves forward one sign each year. Its house in the year chart is read as a theme for the year: houses 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10 and 11 are taken as favourable, and 4, 6, 7, 8 and 12 as difficult. The lord of the Muntha sign, the Munthesh, is one of the office-bearers of the year.

Office-bearers and Mudda dasha

The Tajik texts name five office-bearers (Panchadhikari): the Muntha lord, the birth Lagna lord, the year Lagna lord, the Tri-rashi lord, and the lord of the Sun's sign (for a year that begins by day) or the Moon's sign (by night). The strongest of them that aspects the year Lagna becomes the year lord.

Mudda dasha is Vimshottari dasha compressed into one year. Each lord gets its Vimshottari share of the year: Ketu 7/120, Venus 20/120 and so on, which comes to about 21 days for Ketu and 61 for Venus. The first lord is found from the birth nakshatra number plus the completed years, minus 2, divided by 9.

Limits

The page shows four of the five office-bearers. The Tri-rashi lord and the choice of the year lord need Panchavargiya bala, and the Tajik yogas and sahams need further tables; none of these are computed here. Mudda dasha periods start at the varsha pravesh with no carried-over balance. Positions come from the same engine as the Kundli; see the method page.