The Master Chart Analysis Process

From Why a Planet Can Mean Anything

• Nothing yet — the process begins in Week 2, once you can describe a chart. This week establishes why the exercise is worth doing at all.

From The Nine Grahas

• Nothing yet — but you now hold the classification that Step 7 of the finished process (assess dignity, strength, support and affliction) is built on.

From Who Each Graha Is

• Still nothing — the process opens in Week 2, once you can describe a chart. What this unit gives you is the vocabulary the first steps will be written in.

From Dignity

• Not yet a numbered step, but the habit that Step 8 is built from: never describe a planet's placement without also stating its dignity.

From Friends, Enemies, and the Ratio of Effects

• Still no numbered step, but the second half of what Step 8 will eventually ask: a planet's condition is its dignity *and* its relationship to the lord of the sign it occupies.

From The Twelve Signs and the Cosmic Body

• **Step 2 — establish the chart.** Before reading anything, know what you are reading: whose chart, cast for what time and place, with which ayanāṁśa, and how reliable the birth time is.
• **Step 3 (opened) — read the Lagna and the chart's overall shape.** Which sign rises, what quality it has, who rules it. First impression, held loosely.

From Where a Chart Comes From

• **Step 2 (completed) — establish the chart.** Verify the birth data and where it came from. Note the ayanāṁśa. Note the birth-time uncertainty explicitly, because it constrains every step after this one.

From Other Starting Points

• **Step 3 (continued) — read the Lagna and the chart's overall shape.** Note that the Lagna is one starting point among several, and that where a planet sits within a degree or two of a sign boundary, its house is genuinely uncertain rather than merely close.

From The Sixteen Divisions, and the Names of the Houses

• **Step 3 (completed) — read the Lagna and the chart's overall shape.** Lagna sign and lord, its condition, the distribution of planets, and every house classified as Kendra / Paṇaphara / Āpoklima and as Trikoṇa / Duḥsthāna / Upachaya.
• **Step 9 (opened) — examine the relevant vargas.** Know which division answers which question, and that a varga confirms or qualifies the rashi chart rather than replacing it.

From What a Planet Can See

• **Step 7 (opened) — examine occupants, conjunctions and Dṛṣṭi.** For any house under consideration, list who sits in it and who aspects it, recording the aspect's strength grade.

From What the Chart Says About the Birth Itself

• **Step 4 (opened) — identify the relevant Bhāvas.** Before judging a house, note whether any of Parashara's cancellation conditions apply to the chart as a whole (Ch. 12): benefics in Kendras, strong Lagna lord, malefics hemmed by benefics.

From The Twelve Houses, and the One Rule That Judges Them All

• **Step 4 (opened) — identify the relevant Bhāvas.** For a question, name the primary house from Chapter 13's list, then the houses that support it and the houses that would undo it.
• **Step 5 (opened) — examine their lords.** Five of the six affliction conditions and three of the five prosperity conditions concern the house's lord, not the house.

From Body, Wealth, Courage

• **Step 4 (continued) — identify the relevant Bhāvas.** Work from the house's underlying principle, not from a keyword list, so that questions the text never phrased can still be placed.

From Home and Mind, Children and Intelligence

• **Step 4 (continued) — identify the relevant Bhāvas.** For any question, name the primary house, the houses that support it, and the houses that would undo it — typically the 6th, 8th and 12th counted from the primary.

From Enemies, Partnership, and the Unseen

• **Step 4 (continued) — identify the relevant Bhāvas.** For any question, also identify the houses that would *undo* the matter — typically the 6th, 8th and 12th counted from the primary house.

From Fortune, Action, Gain, and Loss

• **Step 4 (completed) — identify the relevant Bhāvas.** Primary house, supporting houses, contradicting houses, and the houses that would undo the matter. Know each one from its principle.

From The Lord Carries the House

• **Step 5 (completed) — examine the house lords.** For every relevant house: where its lord sits, what else that lord rules, and its dignity and condition. The lordship map is a standing artifact, built once per chart and reused.

From The Shadow Points in Judgment

• **Step 8 (opened) — assess condition and support.** Include the computed points where the birth time supports them, weighted below planetary evidence and never used alone.

From Not All Aspects Are Equal

• **Step 7 (continued) — examine occupants, conjunctions and Dṛṣṭi.** Where two aspects compete on the same house, rank them by strength rather than listing both as present.

From Six Kinds of Strength

• **Step 8 (opened) — assess dignity, strength, support and affliction.** Weigh factors rather than listing them. Keep strength, natural nature and dignity as three separate readings on every planet.

From Padas, Upapada, and Argala

• **Step 4 (refined) — identify the relevant Bhāvas.** For marriage, include the Upapada and the 2nd house from it alongside the 7th. For any house under close examination, check its Argala and the obstruction to it.

From What Each Planet Signifies For You

• **Step 6 — examine the relevant kārakas.** The natural significator for the matter in question, and the Ātmakāraka wherever the question concerns life direction. Read the kāraka's condition alongside the house's, and treat agreement as confidence and disagreement as detail.

From The Soul's Sign

• **Step 9 (continued) — examine the relevant vargas.** For questions of life direction, identify the Kārakāṁśa and read houses counted from it in the Navāṁśa.

From Good For You, Bad For You

• **Step 10 (opened) — identify Yogas, supporting and contradicting.** Before that: classify every planet's functional nature for this ascendant, using the four-tier framework. This changes the meaning of every lordship connection on your map.

From The Yoga Kāraka, and What Blocks One

• **Step 10 (continued) — identify Yogas.** For each candidate yoga: confirm the formation, check the blocking conditions, then assess whether the planets involved can deliver. Never record a yoga without all three.

From Shapes in the Chart

• **Step 10 (continued) — identify Yogas.** Include distribution patterns from Ch. 37 where present, and note that a catalogued yoga is one input rather than a headline. Always apply the delivery test.

From Rāja Yoga and the Luminaries' Yogas

• **Step 10 (completed) — identify Yogas, supporting and contradicting.** For each: confirm the formation, check the blocking conditions, grade it where the source grades it, and judge whether the planets can deliver. Record contradicting combinations, including penury and affliction yogas, alongside favourable ones.

From What a Chart Promises Materially

• **Step 10 (continued) — identify Yogas, supporting and contradicting.** For a material question, check the Dhana Yogas of Ch. 43 AND the penury combinations of Ch. 44. Record both columns before weighing.

From How Long

• **Step 8 (continued) — assess condition and strength.** Where longevity is relevant, work to a band rather than a figure, and treat disagreement between the three systems as information about how firmly the chart speaks.

From What Ends It

• **Step 8 (continued) — assess condition.** Identify the Mārakas as part of the standing chart picture, and check Ch. 46's qualifications before treating any of them as active.
• **Step 15 (foreshadowed) — answer in plain language.** On sensitive material, what you say and how you say it is part of the analysis, not an afterthought to it.

From The State a Planet Is In

• **Step 8 (completed) — assess dignity, strength, support and affliction.** Dignity, Ṣaḍbala, functional nature, Avasthā and Aṣṭakavarga support, weighed rather than listed. Chapter 13's judgment rule is now runnable in full.

From Forty Ways to Divide a Life

• **Step 12 (opened) — apply Viṁśottarī timing.** Before anything else: know which system you are using and why, and be able to say what that choice leaves out.

From Building the Viṁśottarī Sequence

• **Step 12 (continued) — apply Viṁśottarī timing.** Build the Mahādaśā sequence from the birth nakshatra, note the balance at birth, and record the birth-time uncertainty as a margin on every period boundary.

From What a Mahādaśā Actually Does

• **Step 11 — STATE THE NATAL PROMISE.** Before touching timing, write down explicitly what this chart is set up to give, withhold or complicate in the area under examination. You may not proceed to Step 12 until Step 11 is written down.

From It Depends What the Planet Rules

• **Step 12 (continued) — apply Viṁśottarī timing.** Read each Mahādaśā through what its lord RULES in this chart (Ch. 50), then through the lord's own condition (Ch. 49). Never through the planet's name alone.

From Two Other Ways to Time a Life

• **Step 12 (continued).** State which daśā system you are using. Where another system is raised, say whether you can evaluate it.

From Dividing the Mahādaśā

• **Step 12 (continued) — apply Viṁśottarī timing.** Narrow from Mahādaśā to Antardaśā. Both the Mahādaśā lord and the Antardaśā lord contribute, and both must be read through what they rule.

From Reading Parashara's Antardaśā Method

• **Step 12 (continued).** For an Antardaśā, read: the Antardaśā lord's dignity and placement; its position FROM THE MAHĀDAŚĀ LORD; its lordships; its conjunctions and aspects. Both lords contribute.

From Does the Pattern Hold?

• **Step 12 (continued).** Narrow to Antardaśā. State explicitly whether your reading was produced before or after you knew the outcome — a retrospective and a prospective statement carry different weight and should be labelled as such.

From The Remaining Mahādaśās

• **Step 12 (continued).** For a node's period, read through the dispositor and any conjunct planet — the node supplies the intensity, the dispositor supplies the subject matter.

From Pratyantardaśā, and How Far Down to Go

• **Step 12 (completed) — apply Viṁśottarī timing.** Mahādaśā → Antardaśā → Pratyantardaśā *only where the birth data and the evidence justify it*. State the level you stopped at and why.

From Kālachakra's Own Subdivisions

• **Step 12 — closing note.** State which system you used and at what level you stopped. Where another system would give a different answer, say whether you can evaluate it.

From Counting Support

• **Step 8 (extended) — assess condition and support.** Add Aṣṭakavarga support to dignity, strength, functional nature and Avasthā. It is an independent measure and should be recorded separately rather than merged.

From Cleaning the Numbers

• **Step 8 (extended) — assess support.** Use the reduced Aṣṭakavarga figures, not the raw ones, and know which you are looking at.

From What the Bindus Say

• **Step 8 (extended).** Read each planet's Aṣṭakavarga against that planet's own subjects. Use bindu counts for transit judgment, as a modifier on the natal promise.

From The Whole-Chart Score

• **Step 8 (completed) — assess dignity, strength, support and affliction.** Dignity, Ṣaḍbala, functional nature, Avasthā and Aṣṭakavarga support. Where the collective support and the lordship reading disagree, name the disagreement rather than resolving it.

From Three Lagnas and Five Great Men

• **Step 10 (extended) — identify Yogas.** Include the Pañchamahāpuruṣa yogas, checked against both formation conditions. Where a whole-chart view is wanted, read the relevant house from the Lagna, the Moon and the Sun and note whether the three converge.

From What a Chart Is Made Of

• **Step 3 (extended) — read the Lagna and the chart's overall shape.** Include the elemental and guṇa composition as part of the first impression, held loosely.

From Female Horoscopy

• **No new step.** Parashara's own statement is that the general method applies. Use it.

From What the Body Shows

• **No new step.** Chapter 84 does not enter the working process.

From Karma Carried Forward

• **Step 15 (foreshadowed) — answer in plain language.** On karmic material, what you say and whether to say it is part of the analysis. A combination and its prescribed response are one unit; never present the first without the second.

From Difficult Births, and Parashara's Last Word

• **Step 4 (extended) — identify the relevant Bhāvas.** Where a birth circumstance is unusual, check Ch. 87's index and the corresponding chapter for what the text prescribes.

From The Process, Assembled

• **Step 1 — understand the question.** Restate what is actually being asked. Separate the stated question from the real one. Decide what would count as an answer, given what this method can produce.
• **Step 15 — synthesise and answer in plain language.** Answer the question the person asked, in ordinary words, at the confidence the evidence supports. Say what you do not know.
• **The process is now complete: all fifteen steps.**

From The Guided Analysis

• **The whole process, rehearsed.** No new steps. What this unit adds is the experience of running all fifteen in sequence and seeing where the joints are.

From An Unfamiliar Chart

• **The whole process, unaided.** Where a step cannot be completed, record what is missing rather than substituting an assumption.

From The Questions People Actually Ask

• **Steps 4, 6 and 9 are domain-specific.** Every other step is identical across all questions. Use the domain table to populate them, then run the process unchanged.

From The Classical and Karmic Questions

• **Step 15 (extended) — synthesise and answer in plain language.** On sensitive material, the answer IS the analysis. Apply the three tests before delivering anything: is it true, does it stay within the evidence, does it leave the person better off.

From Blind Practice, and the Reveal

• **Step 14 (extended) — judge confidence.** After a reveal, check whether the claims you rated strong were the ones that landed. Grade the confidence, not the hit rate.

From Assessment, Weak Areas, and What Comes Next

• **The process is complete.** Fifteen steps, all taught, all rehearsed, all assessed. What remains is repetition.