Accuracy first — every position comes from DE440, NASA JPL's most precise planetary ephemeris.
Accuracy first — every position comes from DE440, NASA JPL's most precise planetary ephemeris.
Two measures decide whether a day favours you personally — one counted from your birth nakshatra, one from your birth moon sign. Choose yours below and both tables fill in.
Favourable15
Bharani, Rohini, Ardra, Pushya, Ashlesha, Purva Phalguni, Hasta, Swati, Anuradha, Jyeshtha, Purva Ashadha, Shravana, Shatabhisha, Uttara Bhadrapada, Revati
Neutral3
Ashwini, Magha, Mula
Avoid9
Krittika, Mrigashira, Punarvasu, Uttara Phalguni, Chitra, Vishakha, Uttara Ashadha, Dhanishta, Purva Bhadrapada
Favourable6
Aries, Gemini, Virgo, Libra, Capricorn, Aquarius
Neutral3
Taurus, Leo, Sagittarius
Avoid3
Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces
Two choices and nothing else. The tables redraw as soon as both are set — there is no submit button and nothing to wait for.
Choose your birth Moon sign
The rasi the Moon stood in when you were born, not your sun sign. Confuse the two and the whole Chandra Bala column answers for somebody else.
Choose your birth nakshatra
One of the twenty-seven. Tara Bala counts from this, and it decides which of the nine verdicts falls where across the ring.
Read the two tables together
Chandra Bala marks all twelve signs; Tara Bala marks all twenty-seven stars. Find where the Moon is today in each and you have both verdicts for today.
Know neither? Switch to birth details and give your date, time and place instead — both are worked out for you. The star-and-sign path stays arithmetic done in your browser.
Most people know their sun sign. This is counted from the MOON sign — the sign the Moon stood in at your birth — which is why the answer here often differs from a horoscope column. The Moon crosses a sign in roughly two and a quarter days, so Chandra Bala changes every few days rather than once a month.
Chandra Bala counts inclusively from your birth Moon sign: that sign is the 1st, the next the 2nd, on to the 12th. Six of the twelve are strong, three are to be avoided, and three sit in the middle. Which one the Moon occupies today is what the calculator above answers.
| # | Position | Verdict | Read for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The 1st — your own sign | Favourable | Personal matters, and anything begun for yourself |
| 2 | The 2nd | Neutral | Money, family, and what is spoken |
| 3 | The 3rd | Favourable | Effort, courage, short journeys |
| 4 | The 4th | Avoid | Home and comfort — classically disturbed |
| 5 | The 5th | Neutral | Children and learning; the sources are mild here |
| 6 | The 6th | Favourable | Competition, debts, overcoming opposition |
| 7 | The 7th | Favourable | Dealings with others, partnership, agreement |
| 8 | The 8th | Avoid | Ashtama Chandra — the position texts warn about hardest |
| 9 | The 9th | Neutral | Travel and counsel — the one position the sources split on |
| 10 | The 10th | Favourable | Work, public action, anything official |
| 11 | The 11th | Favourable | Gain, and the finishing of what was started |
| 12 | The 12th | Avoid | Loss and expense; rest rather than action |
The 9th is the one row that needs a caveat. It prints as Neutral because that is what the calculator above scores it and what every muhurat check on this site reads — but the sources genuinely split, one tradition calling it the mildest of the unfavourable positions while the classical Muhurtha text lists it among the especially strong. Neutral is the defensible middle rather than a verdict.
Twenty-seven nakshatras divided by nine taras leaves exactly three cycles, so every tara appears three times. That is what makes the table worth learning rather than looking up: the difficult stars are always the third, fifth and seventh position of a cycle, and once you can count you never need to remember twenty-seven names.
The cycle runs from your birth nakshatra and repeats every nine, so the same nine verdicts cover all twenty-seven. What each is read for is below; which one today falls in is what the calculator above answers.
| # | Tara | Verdict | Read for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Janma | Neutral | Your own birth star — cautioned classically, read here as mixed |
| 2 | Sampat | Favourable | Wealth and gain |
| 3 | Vipat | Avoid | Loss, accident, reversal |
| 4 | Kshema | Favourable | Well-being and security |
| 5 | Pratyari | Avoid | Obstruction and opposition |
| 6 | Sadhaka | Favourable | Accomplishment — what gets finished |
| 7 | Vadha | Avoid | The severest of the three, classically read as danger |
| 8 | Mitra | Favourable | Friendship and ease |
| 9 | Ati Mitra | Favourable | The strongest support of the nine |
Tradition asks for both to be favourable before beginning anything important. They often differ, because they are counted from different things — one from your moon sign, one from your nakshatra. When only one is favourable, the usual advice is to wait for a day when both are.
Enter your birth date, time and place instead and both will be worked out for you. The time matters: the Moon changes nakshatra roughly once a day, so an hour either way can move the answer. Nothing is stored, and nothing is sent anywhere on the star-and-sign path — that table is arithmetic done in your browser.
Anyone choosing a day — for travel, a purchase, a ceremony, or a conversation that matters. Practitioners use these same two measures as two of the checks when fixing a muhurat.
The common use is picking a day for something that can be moved: travelling, signing, starting a course of treatment, opening a discussion that matters. Both limbs answer for a whole day rather than a moment, so they narrow a week to a few days and stop there — which is the honest limit of what a rasi-and-nakshatra reading can do. Choosing the hour within a chosen day is a muhurat question, and a different calculation.
Chandra Bala and Tara Bala read the transiting Moon against your birth Moon, and nothing else. They do not look at the rest of the sky, at your dasha, or at anything specific to the thing you are planning — so a strong day is a day without this particular obstruction, not a day on which everything will go well. Read the other way round they are more useful: a day both limbs call difficult is a reasonable one to move an optional commitment off.