Everything in the almanac
Tap anything. Every page works out its times for where you are.
10 sections · 41 pages
Today
11 pagesWhat the day looks like. Worth a glance any morning.
Your dayWhat today looks like, hour by hour.8 pages
- Good hours, North and West IndiaChoghadiyaThe North and West's table: the day in eight slots, each marked good, neutral or best avoided. Handy before you start something.
- Good hours, Tamil NaduGowri Panchangam · Nalla NeramTamil Nadu's own table: day and night in eight parts each — five good, three to set aside — measured from your own sunrise and sunset.
- Planet hoursHoraEvery hour of the day belongs to a planet, and each one suits different work — study, travel, a hard conversation, or rest.
- Vedic time nowIshta Kala · Ghati PalaThe time as an almanac states it: ghatis and palas elapsed since sunrise, with the muhurta of the day and the hour's planet.
- Where the Sun and Moon arePoint your phone at the sky and see exactly where they are right now, and when they rise and set.
Good timingStretches of the day that are worth knowing about.3 pages
Watch-outsDays and stretches tradition flags as tricky.4 pages
- Rahu Kaal and friendsRahu Kaal, Yama Gandam, GulikaAbout ninety minutes a day that tradition says to keep free of new beginnings.
- The five awkward daysPanchakA five-day stretch each month when certain jobs — roofing, travel south, buying fuel — are usually put off.
- BhadraVishti KaranaA half-tithi stretch that is skipped for weddings and new ventures. We already know when it runs.
- Knotty birth starsGanda MoolSix of the 27 stars sit on a join between signs. Babies born under them get a small ritual.
Coming up
7 pagesDates to mark before they arrive.
Lucky combinationsWhen a weekday and a star line up well.2 pages
Dates to knowThe repeating days families keep track of.4 pages
- EkadashiThe eleventh day of each half-month, kept as a fast by many families.
- Full moon and new moonPurnima, AmavasyaBoth dates for the year, with the exact times they turn.
- PradoshTwice a month, the two hours around sunset on the thirteenth day.
- Sankashti and ChaturthiThe fourth-day observances kept for Ganesha each month.
CalendarA month at a time, with the tithi on every date.5 pages
Now and then
14 pagesFor the things you plan once, not every day.
EclipsesWhether you can actually see it from where you are — which is most of the question.1 pages
FestivalsWorked out for your city, which is why the dates can differ from India.2 pages
Picking a dateShortlists of dates for the big things. Read these as a starting point, not a verdict.3 pages
Your birth chartKundali — The readings that start from a birth rather than from today — the chart itself, and what is counted from it. Everything is worked out on your device and nothing is sent anywhere.9 pages
- Birth chartJanma KundaliThe nine grahas, the rising sign and the twelve houses at a birth, drawn as a South Indian square, with the Vimshottari dasha and its sub-periods from the Moon's star.
- Birth star and signsJanma Nakshatra · Janma RashiThe Moon's star and quarter at birth, the Moon sign, the Sun sign and the rising sign — and the syllables a name is traditionally chosen from.
- Star birthdayJanma Nakshatra · PirannalThe day your birth star comes back in your birth month each year — the birthday much of South India keeps — for you and everyone in your family, where you live now.
- Mangal and KalasarpaMangal Dosha · Kalasarpa YogaWhether Mars sits in one of the houses that give Mangal dosha, which classical exceptions apply, and whether every graha falls between Rahu and Ketu.
- Sade Sati and DhaiyaShani Sade SatiSaturn's seven-and-a-half years around your Moon sign, phase by phase, with the exact dates — and the two-and-a-half-year Dhaiya periods between them.
- Horoscope matchingAshtakoota · PoruthamThe eight kootas out of thirty-six as the North counts them, and the ten poruthams as the South does — each one shown with the reason, not just the score.
- Gemstone and RudrakshaRatna · RudrakshaThe stones and mukhis traditionally linked to the lords of your rising sign, Moon sign and birth star, with the metal, finger and day each is worn on.
- Pancha Pakshi birdPancha Pakshi ShastraThe Tamil five-bird system: your bird from the birth star and fortnight, and what it is doing through today — ruling, eating, walking, sleeping or dying.
- Tithi anniversariesShraddha Tithi · Sahasra ChandraThe day a lunar date falls in coming years — for the shraddha of a loved one, or for the thousandth full moon of a life.