Arjun & Meera

What’s ahead for you two

The match in brief

Doshas

• Nadi dosha Not present: you are of different Nadis.
• Bhakoot dosha Not present: your Moon signs are well placed.
• Rajju dosha Not present: you are in different Rajju groups.
• Manglik Present, with no standard cancellation. Families often consult an astrologer.

Birth details

Your birth charts

Navamsa charts

The Navamsa divides every sign into nine parts. Tradition reads it alongside the birth chart for marriage and partnership: the strength of Venus and of the 7th house here is what astrologers usually look at first.

Your birth stars

Matching is built on the Moon's birth star (janma nakshatra). These are the traditional attributes each star carries, the same ones the kootas and poruthams compare.

Planetary periods

In the Vimshottari system each person moves through nine planetary periods (mahadashas), set by the Moon's birth star. Families often look at the periods both partners will be running after marriage.

• Dasha Sandhi Neither of you changes mahadasha within six months of the other in the next fifty years: no dasha sandhi.

Dates follow the standard 365.25-day year; other calculators can differ by a few days.

Manglik in detail

Mars in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th or 12th house is called Manglik. Tradition counts the houses from the Lagna, from the Moon and from Venus; the Lagna reading carries the most weight.

• Manglik Present, with no standard cancellation. Families often consult an astrologer.

The eight kootas

The ten poruthams

Words you’ll see

Rasi

Your Moon sign. In Indian astrology “your sign” is where the Moon was at birth, not the Sun, so it is often different from your magazine star sign.

Nakshatra

Your birth star: which of 27 star groups the Moon was passing through when you were born.

Pada

A quarter of a birth star. Each star has four, and the pada fine-tunes it.

Lagna

Your rising sign: the sign coming up on the eastern horizon at the minute you were born. It is why the birth time matters.

Guna

Points. Guna Milan adds up 8 factors to a score out of 36.

Porutham

A compatibility check. The South Indian system uses 10 of them, each a simple match / partial / no match.

Dosha

A red flag in the match that tradition says to look at closely. Many doshas have standard exceptions that cancel them.

Nadi

One of three “body type” groups. Partners in the same group is called Nadi dosha, linked by tradition to health and children.

Rajju

The porutham most South Indian families won’t compromise on. If it doesn’t match, many families don’t go ahead.

Manglik

Mars sits in one of six “sensitive” spots in your chart. Tradition checks it before marriage; it is common and often cancelled.

Navamsa

A zoomed-in version of the birth chart that astrologers read for marriage.

Dasha

The planet “in charge” of the current chapter of your life. Each chapter lasts years, and they come in a fixed order.

How this was calculated

Planetary positions come from NASA JPL's DE421 ephemeris, converted to the sidereal zodiac with the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa used by the Government of India's calendar and by most Indian astrologers. Positions agree with the Swiss Ephemeris to within about one arcsecond.

Guna Milan and the ten poruthams follow the conventions of the most widely used Indian calculators, and were checked factor by factor against AstroSage. Rajju and Dina are given the most weight, as most families do.

Matching is a traditional lens on compatibility, not a verdict on two people. Many happy marriages have low scores, and no score replaces knowing each other, family wisdom, and an astrologer's advice for anything that worries you.

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