Cast your Varshphal (Tajika annual horoscope) from date, time, and place of birth. For any year, this tool computes the Varsha Pravesh solar-return moment, the annual chart and Varsha Lagna, the Muntha, and the Mudda dasha timeline. Uses the sidereal Lahiri ayanamsa and casts for your birthplace, the classical convention.
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Supports 1900 onwards for better calculation reliability.
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astrology| Return type | Sidereal solar return (Sun back to its natal sidereal position) |
|---|---|
| Ayanamsa | Lahiri |
| Location | Place of birth (classical Tajika convention) |
| Muntha | Natal ascendant sign, advancing one sign per year |
| Mudda dasha | Count-based; 9 full lord-periods over one solar year, 3x Vimshottari (AstroSage-compatible) |
| Inputs | Date, time, and place of birth, plus the year or age |
| Engine | Meeus VSOP87 + Lahiri ayanamsa (same engine as Kundli) |
| Not computed in v1 | Varshesh strength, Sahams, Tajika yogas (see below) |
| Privacy | 100% client-side; no birth data leaves your browser |
Varshphal is the annual horoscope of the Tajika tradition, a branch of Indian astrology refined over roughly eight centuries and set out in texts such as the Tajika Neelakanthi and B.V. Raman’s Varshaphal. Where your birth chart maps the whole life, the Varshphal chart maps a single year: it is recast every year for the exact moment the Sun comes back to the sidereal longitude it occupied at your birth.
What makes the Tajika annual reading distinct from simply re-reading the birth chart is a set of year-specific tools: the Muntha, a point that moves one sign per year; the Mudda dasha, a one-year planetary timeline; and, in fuller treatments, the year lord and the Sahams. This calculator computes the annual chart, the Muntha, and the Mudda dasha.
The annual chart is a solar return. The tool searches near your birthday for the instant when the Sun’s sidereal longitude exactly equals its value at birth, then casts an ordinary sidereal chart for that instant. Two conventions matter and are both stated plainly here: the return is sidereal (Lahiri ayanamsa), and the chart is cast for your place of birth, not your current city.
These choices affect the result. A tropical solar return, used in Western astrology, can land several hours away from the sidereal one, up to most of a day for older charts, because the ayanamsa shifts about 50 arc-seconds a year. And because the ascendant moves quickly, the annual rising sign is the most sensitive output. In a cross-check against another calculator, our return moment agreed within about three minutes and the rising sign matched; even so, near a sign boundary a small difference in the return moment can change the sign, so verify it there.
The Muntha begins on your natal ascendant sign and advances exactly one sign each year, so its sign for a given year is your ascendant sign plus your completed age, and it returns to the ascendant every twelve years. Its house in the annual chart is read as a central theme for the year, and its sign lord is studied for further detail. The table below gives each house’s neutral domain and whether the classical Tajika texts read it as favourable; it deliberately leaves out the sensational per-house predictions that circulate online, which vary widely between sources.
| House | Domain | Tajika reading |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Self, body, vitality, initiative, the year's tone | Favourable |
| 2 | Wealth, speech, family, sustenance | Favourable |
| 3 | Effort, courage, siblings, communication, skills | Favourable |
| 4 | Home, property, vehicles, mother, emotional base | Challenging |
| 5 | Creativity, children, learning, romance | Favourable |
| 6 | Health, service, competition, debts, adversaries | Challenging |
| 7 | Marriage, partnerships, business relationships | Challenging |
| 8 | Shared resources, transformation, and hidden matters | Challenging |
| 9 | Fortune, dharma, higher learning, travel, mentors | Favourable |
| 10 | Career, status, public standing, action | Favourable |
| 11 | Gains, goals, networks, income | Favourable |
| 12 | Expenditure, withdrawal, foreign or spiritual pursuits, closure | Challenging |
The Mudda dasha takes the same nine planetary lords as the Vimshottari dasha and runs the whole cycle inside one year, so each lord rules a window of a few weeks rather than years. The starting lord is fixed by your completed age plus your natal Moon’s nakshatra number; the nine lords then run in Vimshottari order, each for its full length (three times its Vimshottari years, 360 units in all) spread across the actual solar year. That gives nine full periods, with no natal-Moon balance and no repeated lord at year-end.
This nine-full-period form matches AstroSage’s Mudda Vimshottari Dasha, verified row by row on a sample chart. Some classical treatments (K.S. Charak) instead split the starting lord by a natal-Moon balance and repeat it at year-end (a ten-row timeline); this tool deliberately uses the nine-full-period convention for calculator parity. A separate annual-Moon method attributed to Kalidasa uses a different sequence and is described as less popular; this tool does not use it.
Varshphal does not replace your birth chart; it complements it. The birth chart and its Vimshottari Dasha describe the whole life across a 120-year cycle, while the annual chart and the one-year Mudda dasha zoom into a single year. Traditional practice reads the two together, and holds that a year cannot deliver what the birth chart does not already promise.
If you want the full birth chart first, the Free Kundli Generator computes your D1 and D9 charts, planetary positions, and Vimshottari Dasha from the same birth details, and the Yogini Dasha Calculator gives the shorter 36-year timing cycle.
Start with the Varsha Pravesh card, which gives the exact solar-return moment for the year you selected, then look at the annual chart and its Varsha Lagna. The Muntha card names the year’s progressed-ascendant sign, house, and lord. The Mudda dasha table lists the planetary periods across the year in order; when you are viewing your current running year, the active period (and its sub-period) is marked. Use the year selector to step to any past or future year.
A fuller Tajika reading also selects a Varshesh, the lord of the year. This is not simply the strongest planet: it is chosen from five office-bearers (the lords of the natal ascendant, the Muntha sign, the annual ascendant, the day-or-night sign, and the triplicity), it must aspect the annual ascendant by a Tajika aspect, and among the qualifiers the one with the highest Panchavargeeya Bala (a five-fold strength score) is taken, with tie-breaking rules. This version does not compute the Varshesh, the Panchavargeeya Bala, the Sahams (sensitive points), or the sixteen Tajika yogas; it shows the Muntha and its lord accurately and leaves those deeper layers for a later version rather than approximating them.
Varshphal (also spelled Varshaphal) is the Vedic annual horoscope from the Tajika system. Each year, a fresh chart is cast for the exact moment the Sun returns to the sidereal position it held at your birth. That annual chart, read alongside features unique to Tajika such as the Muntha and the Mudda dasha, is used to study the themes of one specific year rather than the whole life.
It is a solar return. The tool finds the instant, near your birthday, when the Sun's sidereal longitude equals its longitude at birth, then casts a normal sidereal chart for that instant and place. Because the Sun takes a little over 365 days to come back to the same point, the return moment shifts a few hours each year and can fall on the day before or after your calendar birthday.
For your place of birth. Classical Tajika (Tajika Neelakanthi, B.V. Raman) casts the annual chart for the birthplace regardless of where you live now, so this calculator uses your birth city. Casting for a current residence is a separate modern variation and is not offered in this version.
Sidereal, with the Lahiri ayanamsa, matching mainstream Vedic practice. The Sun returns to its natal position in the fixed (sidereal) zodiac. This differs from a Western tropical solar return; the two can fall several hours apart (and up to most of a day for older charts) because the ayanamsa drifts about 50 arc-seconds per year, so results may not match a tropical-return calculator.
The Muntha is a progressed point unique to the annual chart. It starts on your natal ascendant sign in your birth year and advances exactly one sign every year, returning to the ascendant every twelve years. Its house in the annual chart and the placement of its lord are read as a headline theme for the year. This tool shows the Muntha sign, house, and lord, and the classical favourable or unfavourable house set.
The Mudda dasha compresses the nine-lord Vimshottari sequence into a single year, so each planet rules a window of a few weeks. The starting lord is fixed by your completed age plus your natal Moon nakshatra, and the nine lords then run in Vimshottari order, each for its full length (three times the Vimshottari years) - nine periods that match AstroSage's Mudda dasha. Some classical treatments instead split the starting lord by a natal-Moon balance and repeat it at year-end; this tool uses the nine-full-period convention for calculator parity.
The solar-return moment itself is found precisely; the annual ascendant (Varsha Lagna) is the sensitive part. In a cross-check against another calculator, our return moment agreed within about three minutes and the Varsha Lagna sign matched, but a chart whose Varsha Lagna sits very close to a sign boundary should still be cross-checked there. The Muntha (whole-sign arithmetic) and the Mudda dasha (based on the natal Moon) are far less sensitive to the exact time.
Any year of life. Pick the annual year from the selector by your completed age (age 0 is your birth year, whose Muntha equals your natal ascendant); the option you select shows the exact Gregorian date its solar return begins on. The tool defaults to your current running Varshphal year and marks the active Mudda period only when today falls inside the year you are viewing.
No. Lal Kitab has its own separate annual-horoscope method with different rules. This calculator implements the classical Tajika Varshphal (solar return, Muntha, Mudda dasha) and does not compute the Lal Kitab annual chart.
Your birth chart (Kundli) and its Vimshottari dasha describe the whole life over a 120-year cycle. Varshphal zooms into one year: a fresh solar-return chart plus the Muntha and the one-year Mudda dasha. Practitioners read the annual chart together with the birth chart, not instead of it, and hold that the year cannot promise what the birth chart does not.