Chandra Kundli (Moon chart)
The Chandra Kundli is your birth chart redrawn with the Moon’s sign as the first house. Vedic astrologers read it alongside the Lagna chart, especially for the mind, emotions and transits.
Also known as: chandra lagna, chandra kundali, moon ascendant, chandra lagna chart
The planets stay in the same signs; only the starting point changes. If your Moon is in Virgo, Virgo becomes the 1st house, Libra the 2nd, and so on. This starting point is the Chandra Lagna, the Moon ascendant.
Classical texts advise judging a chart from the Lagna, the Moon and the Sun together, and a yoga or placement that repeats from both the ascendant and the Moon is considered much stronger. The Moon chart is especially useful when the birth time is uncertain, since the Moon’s sign rarely depends on the exact minute; without a birth time, our Gemstones page reads the house lordships from it in place of the ascendant.
Transits (gochar), Sade Sati and Dhaiya are all counted from the Moon, and Manglik dosha and several yogas, such as Gaja Kesari, are checked from it too. Your daily rashifal is, in effect, a reading of the Moon chart.