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Jyotisha — the sidereal zodiac of India, fixed to the stars rather than to the seasons.

Jyotisha · sourced structure

The twelve rashis

The same 360-degree ecliptic divided into twelve signs, measured from a sidereal zero rather than the seasonal zero used by Western astrology. Every field below comes from a named classical text.

What this phase can claim

Varahamihira’s Brihat Jataka gives the order, rulers, movable/fixed/dual classes, directions, rising manners and figures used here. That is a strong structural record; it is not twelve personality profiles.

So these pages do not tell a Mesha reader they are brave or a Kanya reader they are meticulous. Those familiar summaries need their own source-by-source corpus before Bodhastra will publish them.

The twelve

Same sky, different zero

A planet has one tropical longitude and one sidereal longitude only after a sidereal reference is chosen. Bodhastra names that choice: the calculator uses Lahiri, whose separation from the seasonal zero is about 24 degrees today. It never presents “sidereal” as a single uncontroversial setting. Read the method →

Bodhastra documents what astrological traditions have said, and when they started saying it. It is presented as cultural history and entertainment. Nothing here is medical, psychological, financial or predictive advice, and nothing here is a claim about what will happen to you.

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Place data from GeoNames, used under CC BY 4.0.