Bhava Chalit chart
The Bhava Chalit chart redraws the houses from the exact degree of your ascendant instead of whole signs. A planet near the edge of a sign may move into the next or previous house, refining house-based readings.
Also known as: bhav chalit, chalit kundli, bhava chart, cusp chart
In the Rashi chart, a whole sign makes a house. In the Chalit, the ascendant degree is the middle (bhava madhya) of the 1st house and the other houses are measured from it. Your Kundli uses the Sripati method, which places the middle of the 10th house at the midheaven and divides each quarter of the sky into three.
So if your ascendant is at 25° Leo and Mercury sits at 3° Leo, Mercury is in the 1st house of the Rashi chart but may fall in the 12th in the Chalit, because it lies well behind the start of the 1st bhava.
Practice varies. Many North Indian astrologers use the Chalit to confirm which house a planet really influences, while sign-based results, dignity and yogas are still read from the Rashi chart. Others rely on whole-sign houses alone. When the two disagree, it is worth reading both.