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Jyotish basics, and what the data says
Plain-English guides to the ideas behind Vedic astrology's market claims, with Sanskrit terms explained, and one page for every claim we tested on NSE stocks.
Gochar: how planets in transit are read
What Gochar (planetary transit) means in Jyotish, how houses are counted from the Moon, and how we tested it on NSE stocks.
Sade Sati: Saturn's seven and a half years
What Sade Sati is, its rising, peak and setting phases, how often it comes, and how to see your own timeline.
Guna Milan and the eight kootas
How the 36-point Ashtakoota match works, what each koota compares, and how we applied it between people and stocks.
Nakshatras: the 27 lunar mansions
The 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, their padas and dasha lords, and where they are used on this site.
Panchang: tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga and karana
The five limbs of the Hindu almanac explained, with how each is calculated and how the day is named at sunrise.
Retrograde planets: what vakri means
Why planets appear to move backwards, how often each one does, what Jyotish says about it, and what our tests found.
Rahu and Ketu: the lunar nodes
What Rahu and Ketu are astronomically, why eclipses happen near them, their 18.6-year cycle, and how we tested them.
Vimshottari Dasha: the planetary periods
How the 120-year Vimshottari dasha cycle works, how the starting period is found from the Moon's nakshatra, and sub-periods.
Lagna: the ascendant and the twelve houses
What the lagna (ascendant) is, why it needs an exact birth time and place, the twelve houses, and how stock charts get one.
Ayanamsa and the sidereal zodiac
Why Indian astrology's signs differ from Western ones by about 24°, what the Lahiri ayanamsa is, and how we compute it.
Planet dignity: exaltation, debilitation and own signs
Where each planet is exalted, debilitated or at home, plus combustion and planetary friendship, as used in Jyotish.
How we test astrology
Pre-registration, placebo calendars, the sealed holdout, correction for many tests and live paper portfolios, explained.
The tests
Twelve claims, one page each
Development data 2016–2023, each against 2,000 placebo calendars and corrected for the number of tests. The Models page covers the machine-learning study.
H1: Saturn retrograde
Claim: Steady stocks fall
Beat 9% of shifted calendarsH2: Jupiter retrograde
Claim: Steady stocks fall
Beat 90% of shifted calendarsH3: Saturn, Jupiter or Rahu changes sign
Claim: Steady stocks get jumpier
Beat 20% of shifted calendarsH4: Saturn joins Rahu or Ketu
Claim: Steady stocks fall
Beat 30% of shifted calendarsH5: Mercury retrograde
Claim: Volatile stocks fall
Beat 42% of shifted calendarsH6: Mars retrograde
Claim: Volatile stocks fall
Beat 17% of shifted calendarsH7: Amavasya vs Purnima
Claim: Volatile stocks do worse
Beat 19% of shifted calendarsH8: Solar or lunar eclipse
Claim: Volatile stocks get jumpier
Beat 44% of shifted calendarsH9: Slow vs fast planets
Claim: Slow planets move steady stocks, fast planets volatile ones
Beat 2% of shifted calendarsH10: Astro-timed portfolio
Claim: Going to cash in bad planetary windows beats random timing
Beat 97.5% of shifted calendarsH11: Gochar stock picking
Claim: Stocks whose listing-date Moon is favoured by Jupiter and Saturn do better next month
Beat 0% of shifted-calendar feature setsH12: Machine learning with astro features
Claim: Adding planetary features improves ML forecasts more than shifted-calendar features do