Bhav Chalit Chart
Compare Rashi (whole-sign) and Chalit (Sripati or equal houses) house placements to see which planets shift houses.
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Sripati or Equal houses — what's the difference?
Sripati (default)
Four fixed points of your chart — the Lagna (rising point), the highest point of the sky (10th house), the setting point (7th) and the lowest point (4th) — are the middles of houses 1, 10, 7 and 4. The arc between each pair is split into three equal parts to find the middles of the other houses. Each house begins halfway between its own middle and the previous house's middle.
Signs don't rise at an even pace, so the four quarters are rarely 90° each — that is why Sripati houses come out wider or narrower than 30°. Most Indian astrology textbooks teach this method, and it is what we show first. Very close to the poles Sripati houses can't be drawn; there we show equal houses.
Equal houses
Your exact Lagna degree is the middle of house 1, and every house is exactly 30°. So house 1 runs from 15° before the Lagna to 15° after it, house 2 covers the next 30°, and so on around the chart.
It ignores how unevenly the signs rise, so it is simple and works the same everywhere. Some astrologers and software use it, and a classical rule says a planet gives a house's full result when it sits at the same degree in its sign as the Lagna does in the Lagna sign — which is exactly the middle of an equal house.
When do the two agree?
When your chart's four quarters are close to 90° each, both methods give the same houses. The more uneven the quarters, the more planets can change house — this happens more often for births in north India than in the south. In our test of 2,000 Indian birth charts, about half had at least one planet in a different house under the two methods.
Which one should I use?
Start with Sripati — it is the standard method. If your astrologer works with equal houses, switch to see their view. Either way, read a planet's house from Bhav Chalit, and its sign, strength and the houses it rules from the Rashi chart.
What is Bhav Chalit Chart?
The Bhav Chalit chart shows where planets fall relative to house cusps rather than sign boundaries. While the Rasi chart uses whole-sign houses, Bhav Chalit uses the Ascendant degree as the midpoint of the 1st house, potentially placing planets in different houses.
Use it for house-level readings. When a planet sits in a different house in Bhav Chalit than in the Rashi chart, that changes which life areas the planet mainly affects.
How Does Bhav Chalit Differ from Rasi?
In Rasi, house boundaries equal sign boundaries. Bhav Chalit uses the Ascendant degree as the 1st house midpoint, so house boundaries may span parts of two signs. We use the Sripati method by default: the four angles of the chart are fixed and each quarter is split into three, so some houses are wider than 30° and some narrower. You can switch to equal houses, where every house is exactly 30°.
Experienced astrologers check both: Rasi for sign-based analysis (dignity, aspects) and Bhav Chalit for house-based results (career, marriage, wealth).
Key Concepts
Rasi uses whole-sign houses. Bhav Chalit uses calculated house boundaries (Sripati by default). A planet near a boundary may sit in a different house in the two charts.
Planets on house borders (Sandhi) in Bhav Chalit are weakened, delivering mixed results from both houses.
Astrologers use Bhav Chalit to judge which life areas a planet affects through the house it sits in. Sign-based rules — dignity, the houses a planet rules, and the dasha sequence — still come from the Rashi chart.
Rasi for sign-based analysis; Bhav Chalit for house-based results. Both complement each other.
Frequently Asked Questions
Historical Origins
Working out exact house boundaries goes back to Sripati, an 11th-century Indian astronomer: fix the four angles of the chart and split each quarter into three. Most Indian astrology textbooks still teach his method. A simpler tradition treats the Lagna degree as the middle of every house, which gives equal 30° houses. KP astrology, developed in the 20th century, uses yet another system (Placidus).
