The South Indian chart is a square of 12 boxes around the edge, one of three chart styles popular in India. It is sign-based: each sign always sits in the same box. Pisces is the top-left box, Aries, Taurus and Gemini follow along the top, and the signs run clockwise.
The lagna is marked in whichever box holds its sign, so the houses are counted from there.
Komilla Sutton's foundation course teaches the North and South Indian charts in its first week.
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