# Varshphal Chart: Your Annual Horoscope by Date of Birth Varshphal, or Varshaphala, is the annual chart of the Tajika system. It is cast for the instant the Sun returns to the exact longitude it held at your birth, and read for the twelve months that follow. Enter your birth details and a year to get that chart with its Muntha, year lord and Mudda dasha. ## What is varshphal? Varshphal (वर्षफल), also written varshaphala, is the chart of one year of a life. It is cast for the Varsha Pravesh, the moment the transiting Sun returns to the precise longitude it occupied when you were born, and read for the twelve months from that instant to the next return. It belongs to the Tajika branch of Indian astrology and is used alongside the birth chart and the running Vimshottari dasha, never in place of either. The birth chart is the book; the varshphal is a chapter, and it cannot say anything the book does not. ## How is a varshphal kundli cast? From the same birth details as any chart, plus the year you want. The solar return is solved to the second, because the annual ascendant moves a degree every four minutes and a rounded moment gives a different lagna and with it a different lord of the year. Two things surprise people. First, the return rarely falls exactly on your birthday; it can land a day either side, so casting the chart for the birthday instead is simply the wrong chart. Second, the place used is where you are at that moment, not where you were born; the classical instruction is explicit, and since the ascendant depends on the observer's longitude and latitude, someone who has moved several time zones gets a genuinely different annual chart. ## Is Tajika the same as Vedic astrology? No, and the difference is worth stating plainly rather than smoothing over. Tajika has been taught as Jyotish for about eight centuries and sits comfortably inside Indian practice, but its lineage is not Parashari. The name is the Sanskrit tājika, "Persian"; the system entered Sanskrit astrology from Perso-Arabic sources around the thirteenth century. The machinery shows it: Ithasala and Ishrafa are the Arabic ittisāl and insirāf, the Hadda used in its strength scheme is the Egyptian bounds, and the sahams are the Arabic Parts. Its aspects are orb-based and directional, not the whole-sign drishti used elsewhere in Jyotish. It is a distinct tradition that was absorbed, and calling it ancient Vedic material would be false. ### Ithasala and Ishrafa: ittisāl and insirāf The two central Tajika yogas are an applying aspect and a separating one. In Ithasala the faster graha is still closing on the exact aspect, so the matter is read as coming together; in Ishrafa it has already passed and is moving away. The names are the Arabic ittisāl and insirāf in Sanskrit dress, and the applying-versus-separating distinction is not one Parashari drishti makes at all. ### The Hadda: the Egyptian bounds Each sign is cut into five unequal spans, each ruled by one of the five non-luminaries. These are the terms or bounds of Hellenistic and Egyptian practice, and in Tajika they carry 15 of the 80 points in the Panchavargeeya strength scheme. There is no equivalent division in Parashari Jyotish, which is one of the clearest places the borrowed lineage shows on the surface of the method. ### The sahams: the Arabic Parts under a Sanskrit name A saham is an arc measured between two grahas and then laid off from the ascendant, producing a sensitive point that is not a body and is not visible. The technique is the Arabic Parts, or lots, and the thirty-six of Tajika correspond closely to the lots of that tradition. Punya saham is the best known, and it reverses its formula between a day birth and a night one, as many of the others do. ### Aspects by orb, not by whole sign Elsewhere in Jyotish a graha aspects a whole sign, and either it does or it does not. Tajika measures instead: an aspect operates within a stated orb of degrees, it strengthens as it closes and weakens as it separates, and it is directional. That is a Western and Perso-Arabic way of counting aspects, and it is why a Tajika judgement cannot simply be transferred into a natal chart reading. ## What is the Muntha in a varshphal chart? A progressed point rather than a body. The Muntha starts on your natal ascendant and advances one whole sign for each completed year of life, so it returns to where it began every twelve years. Its house in the annual chart is read as where the year's attention falls, and its lord, the Munthesha, is one of the five candidates for lord of the year. It is arithmetic, not astronomy: nothing in the sky moves with it, which is worth knowing when you weigh what it is being asked to carry. ## What is the Varshesha, the lord of the year? Five grahas hold office in any annual chart: the lord of the Muntha, the lord of the annual ascendant, the lord of the natal ascendant, the triplicity lord, and the dispositor of the Sun by day or the Moon by night. The strongest of the five becomes the Varshesha, and the year is read through it. Strength here is Panchavargeeya bala, which is a Tajika scheme and not Shadbala: five components scored out of 30, 20, 15, 10 and 5 (sign, exaltation distance, Hadda, drekkana and navamsha), summing to 80 and divided by four to give the vishwa bala out of 20. This report prints all five candidates with the full score table rather than naming a winner and moving on. ## What is Mudda dasha? Vimshottari compressed into a single year. The same nine lords in the same order and the same proportions, scaled to 365.25 days, so a lord holding 20 of Vimshottari's 120 years holds about 61 days here: month-level timing inside the year. The opening lord is found by counting forward from your birth nakshatra by the number of years completed. Unlike Vimshottari at birth there is no balance to carry in: the first period runs its full length from the Varsha Pravesh. Tajika texts also give other annual dashas, and where they disagree we say which rule this report is following. ## What are the sahams in varshphal? Sensitive points, computed as the arc between two grahas laid off from the ascendant: the Arabic Parts, under a Sanskrit name, arriving with the rest of the system. Punya saham, the best known, is the Moon minus the Sun plus the ascendant by day and the reverse by night; that day/night reversal applies to many of the thirty-six and is the detail most often dropped. Classical texts disagree on several of the formulae outright, so a saham is only worth as much as the formula stated beside it, which is why each one here is printed with its own working. ## How do I read my varshphal for 2026? In that order: the frame first, the detail last. Find the Varsha Pravesh moment and check the place used is where you actually were. Look at the annual ascendant and the Muntha's house; those two set the year's frame. Then the Varshesha and its own placement, then the Tajika yogas between the year's significant grahas, and only then Mudda dasha for month-level timing. Read all of it against the birth chart and the running Vimshottari dasha: a varshphal that contradicts the natal chart is conventionally read as the smaller of the two, not the news. ## What does a varshphal not predict? Events. This is an annual-forecast system and that is exactly where sites start promising things, so it is worth being unambiguous: we do not forecast marriage, illness, money, career or any other outcome from an annual chart, and no one who does can show that the method works. What we compute is the astronomy: the return to the second, the cusps, the five office-holders with their scores, the yogas by orb and the sahams by formula. What we report about their meaning is what the Tajika texts hold, attributed to them. The distinction is the whole difference between a calculation and a claim. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is Varshaphala in Vedic astrology? Varshaphala is the annual chart: a horoscope cast for the moment the Sun returns to the exact longitude it held at your birth, and read for the twelve months that follow. It belongs to the Tajika system and is used alongside the birth chart and the running Vimshottari dasha, never in place of them. ### Is Varshaphala the same as the birthday? No. The solar return can fall up to a day either side of the birthday, and since the chart is cast for that exact instant, using the birthday instead moves the annual ascendant by whole signs. The moment is what defines it, not the date. ### What is the Muntha? A progressed point rather than a planet. It begins on your natal ascendant and advances one whole sign for every completed year of life, returning to where it started every twelve years. The house it occupies in the annual chart is read as where the year's attention falls. ### What is the Varshesha or lord of the year? Five grahas hold office in any annual chart: the lords of the Muntha, the annual ascendant and the natal ascendant, plus the triplicity lord and the dispositor of the Sun by day or the Moon by night. The strongest of the five by Panchavargeeya bala becomes the Varshesha and the year is read through it. ### Is Tajika the same as Vedic astrology? Tajika has been part of Indian practice for about eight centuries and is taught as Jyotish, but its lineage is different. The name is the Sanskrit tajika, 'Persian', and the system entered Sanskrit astrology around the 13th century from Perso-Arabic sources. Ithasala and Ishrafa are the Arabic ittisal and insiraf, and Hadda bala uses the Egyptian bounds. Its aspects are orb-based rather than the whole-sign drishti used elsewhere in Jyotish. ### What is Mudda dasha? Vimshottari's nine lords and proportions compressed into a single year of 365.25 days, so a lord holding 20 of Vimshottari's 120 years holds about 61 days here. It gives the year month-level timing. The opening lord is found by counting forward from the birth nakshatra by the number of years completed, and unlike Vimshottari at birth there is no balance: the first period runs its full length. ### What are sahams in Varshaphala? Sensitive points, computed as an arc between two grahas laid off from the ascendant, in the manner of the Arabic Parts the system arrived with. Punya saham is the Moon minus the Sun plus the ascendant by day, reversed at night. Classical texts differ on several of the formulae, so each one should be stated rather than assumed. ### Should the annual chart use my birthplace or where I live now? Where you are at the moment of the solar return, not where you were born. That is the classical instruction and K. S. Charak is explicit about it. Because the ascendant depends on the observer's longitude and latitude, someone who has moved a few time zones will get a different annual lagna, and with it a different lord of the year. Many calculators quietly use the birthplace regardless, which is why two sites can disagree about the same year. ### Can Varshaphala predict what will happen this year? It is a traditional technique for reading one year of a chart, not a measurement, and no part of it has been shown to predict events. A strong year lord is not a promise and a weak one is not a sentence. The useful output is structure: which periods fall where, and which parts of life the year's chart emphasises. ### How do I get my varshphal chart by date of birth? Enter your date, exact time and place of birth, then choose the year. The calculator finds the moment the Sun returns to its birth longitude in that year, casts the annual chart for it, and shows the annual lagna, the Muntha, the lord of the year and the Mudda dasha dates. If you have moved, add the city you live in now. --- Source: https://vedicsense.in/varshaphala Method: nirayana (sidereal) rashis, Lahiri ayanamsha, whole-sign bhavas, planetary positions to arc-second accuracy.