[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":34},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f18ichugnmng9e":3},{"slug":4,"title":5,"description":6,"date":7,"product":8,"url":9,"minutes":10,"html":11,"next":12},"why-your-sign-is-different-in-vedic-astrology","Why your zodiac sign is different in Vedic astrology","In a Vedic chart, your Sun sign, Moon sign and rising sign each move back one sign about four times in five. Why it happens, and the Vedic sign dates.","2026-10-21","Astro","https:\u002F\u002Fastro.tukka.dev",4,"\u003Cp>If you were born on 8 August, Western astrology makes you a Leo. A Vedic kundli puts your Sun in Karka, which is Cancer. Your Moon sign and your rising sign have probably moved back one sign as well. Both systems use the same twelve signs with the same names; they start counting from different places.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I made \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fastro.tukka.dev\">Astro\u003C\u002Fa>, a free birth chart calculator that casts both charts from the same birth details, so I used it to measure how often this happens. Across 20,000 random birth times between 1960 and 2010, the Vedic Sun sign was different from the Western one 79% of the time. The Moon sign and the rising sign were different just as often.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Two zodiacs, 24° apart\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>The Western zodiac follows the seasons. Aries starts at the March equinox, so the Sun enters Aries around 20 or 21 March every year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Vedic zodiac is fixed to the stars. The two zodiacs lined up about 1,700 years ago. Since then the Earth's axis has wobbled slowly, like a spinning top, and the equinox has drifted backwards against the stars by about 1° every 72 years. The gap between the two zodiacs is called the ayanamsa. By the Lahiri ayanamsa, which India's government uses, it is 24°13′ in 2026.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Vedic chart subtracts that gap from every planet and from the ascendant. A sign is 30° wide, so anything in the first 24° or so of a Western sign falls into the sign before it. Only the last 6° of each sign stay put, which is where the four in five comes from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Vedic Sun sign dates\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>The Sun moves about 1° a day, so the 24° gap comes to about 24 days. In a Vedic chart the Sun enters each sign around the 13th to 17th of the month, where the Western dates fall between the 19th and the 23rd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two of these dates are festivals. Makar Sankranti, on 14 or 15 January, is the day the Sun enters Makara (Capricorn). Baisakhi and Vishu fall around 14 April because that's when it enters Mesha (Aries).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These are the dates for births between 1960 and 2010 by the Lahiri ayanamsa, give or take a day. If you were born on a day the Sun changed sign, your birth time decides which one you get.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ctable>\n\u003Cthead>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Cth>Sign\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003Cth>Western dates\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003Cth>Vedic dates\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Fthead>\n\u003Ctbody>\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Aries (Mesha)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>21 March to 19 April\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>14 April to 13 May\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Taurus (Vrishabha)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>20 April to 20 May\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>14 May to 14 June\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Gemini (Mithuna)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>21 May to 20 June\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>15 June to 15 July\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Cancer (Karka)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>21 June to 22 July\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>16 July to 15 August\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Leo (Simha)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>23 July to 22 August\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>16 August to 15 September\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Virgo (Kanya)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>23 August to 22 September\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>16 September to 16 October\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Libra (Tula)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>23 September to 22 October\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>17 October to 15 November\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Scorpio (Vrishchika)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>23 October to 21 November\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>16 November to 15 December\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Sagittarius (Dhanu)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>22 November to 21 December\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>16 December to 13 January\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Capricorn (Makara)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>22 December to 19 January\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>14 January to 12 February\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Aquarius (Kumbha)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>20 January to 18 February\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>13 February to 13 March\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Pisces (Meena)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>19 February to 20 March\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>14 March to 13 April\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\u003Ch2>In India, your sign means your Moon sign\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>When someone in India asks for your rashi, they mean the sign the Moon was in when you were born. Kundli matching and rashifal columns go by it, while Western horoscopes go by the Sun sign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Moon changes sign every two and a half days, so you need your birth time as well as the date to know it. The same 24° gap moves it back a sign about four times in five. And since the Moon can be in any sign when the Sun is in yours, only about one person in twelve has a rashi that matches their Western Sun sign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>The same birth in both systems\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Someone born in Delhi at 8 in the morning on 8 August 1996 gets these signs:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ctable>\n\u003Cthead>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Cth>\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003Cth>Western\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003Cth>Vedic\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Fthead>\n\u003Ctbody>\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Sun\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Leo\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Karka (Cancer)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Moon\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Gemini\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Vrishabha (Taurus)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Rising sign\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Virgo\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Simha (Leo)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\u003Cp>All three moved back one sign, so someone who grew up reading Leo horoscopes has Vrishabha as their rashi. The Vedic chart also gives the Moon's nakshatra, which here is Rohini, the fourth of the 27.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Which one is right?\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Each system is consistent with itself. Western astrology ties the signs to the seasons, so Aries always begins at the March equinox. Vedic astrology ties them to the stars, which is why its dates move a day later every 72 years or so. For Western horoscopes, use your Western signs. For a kundli, kundli matching or your rashifal, use the Vedic ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Find your own signs\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Enter your date, time and place of birth on \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fastro.tukka.dev\">Astro\u003C\u002Fa>. The Vedic tab shows your rashi, nakshatra and lagna, with the Rashi, Navamsa and Dashamsa charts. The Western tab shows the chart wheel with your Sun, Moon and rising signs. Without a birth time, it casts the chart for noon and leaves out the rising sign, which changes about every two hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lahiri is the default ayanamsa, and Settings has a dozen others, including KP and Raman. If another app gave you a different chart, \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fposts\u002Fwhy-your-kundli-looks-different-in-every-app\">this post explains why kundli apps disagree\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Astro is free and does all its calculations in your browser, so your birth details aren't sent anywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",[13,21,27],{"slug":14,"title":15,"description":16,"date":17,"product":18,"url":19,"minutes":20},"use-rvc-voices-live-in-your-browser","How to use an RVC voice model live in Discord, with nothing to install","Got an RVC voice (.pth) and want to talk in it on Discord or a stream? 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