North Indian chart meaning in Vedic astrology: diamond chart

The North Indian chart is a diamond-shaped chart and one of three styles popular in India, with the South Indian and East Indian. It is house-based: each house has a fixed position, and the lagna always sits in the same box, the top centre diamond.

The number written in a box is the sign's number, 1 for Aries through 12 for Pisces, so a box showing 4 is Cancer. From the 1st house at the top centre, the houses run counter-clockwise: the 2nd is to its left at the top, and the 10th is the right-hand centre diamond.

Skybond draws charts in the North Indian style.

Related terms

• South Indian chart →South Indian chart means a square chart of 12 boxes around the edge, one of three chart styles popular in India. It is also called the South Indian style.
• Birth chart →Birth chart: a map of where the signs, planets and lagna sat at the moment you were born, drawn across 12 areas, one per sign.
• Lagna →Lagna is the Vedic ascendant: the sign rising on the eastern horizon at the moment and place of birth.
• Bhava →Bhava means house in Vedic astrology: a sector of the chart counted from a reference point, usually the lagna (ascendant).

Lessons that use this term

• What is a birth chart (kundali) in Vedic astrology? →
• How Skybond reads a Vedic chart: method and conventions →
• How to read a North Indian birth chart →
• How to read a South Indian birth chart →
• What is a yogakaraka planet? Yogakaraka for each ascendant →
• Vedic astrology basics quiz: practice 0 →
• Read a sample Vedic chart: practice 1 (foundations) →

Sources for this entry

1. P.V.R. Narasimha Rao, Vedic Astrology: An Integrated Approach
2. Skybond app chart display (North Indian style) (internal documentation)