Vedic astrology, written for thinking seekers

Karwa Chauth 2026 falls on Thursday, 29 October. The fast breaks at moonrise, and moonrise is not the same everywhere. Find your city's exact time, the pradosh puja window, and what sargi and the vrat actually involve.

Kharmas (Dhanurmas) begins around 16 December 2026 and this year it does not end on the usual 14th of January. Here is the real end date, why weddings pause, and what you can still do.

2027 has three windows where Vedic tradition closes weddings outright, and three windows where it allows them. Here is the calendar reasoning behind both, and why the exact date still has to come from a chart, not a published list.

Thiru Onam 2027 falls on Sunday, 12 September. Here is the ten-day Atham-to-Thiruvonam calendar, the pookalam and Onasadya, Vallamkali, and why Kerala's biggest festival belongs to everyone, not just one faith.

Ganesh Chaturthi 2027 falls on Saturday, 4 September, with the Ganesha sthapana held in the madhyahna window. The older and stranger instruction attached to this day is the one most people forget: do not look at the moon.

Janmashtami 2027 falls on Wednesday, 25 August. Here is the date, why some traditions keep it a day apart, and how the nishita midnight puja and the fast actually work.

Raksha Bandhan 2027 lands on Tuesday, 17 August, Shravana Purnima. Bhadra runs through the morning that year, so the rakhi waits. Here is the timing, and why the wait matters.

Buddha Purnima 2027 falls on Thursday, 20 May, the full moon of Vaishakha. Tradition holds that the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and parinirvana all occurred on this one lunar day, which is why Vesak carries the weight it does.

Baisakhi 2027 falls on Wednesday, 14 April, the Mesha sankranti. Here is why that date holds the founding of the Khalsa, Punjab's wheat harvest, and a solar new year shared under different names from Kerala to Assam.

Hanuman Jayanti 2027 falls on 20 April for most of India, but Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka each keep their own date. Here is why, and what the day marks.

Akshaya Tritiya 2027 falls on Sunday, 9 May 2027. Here is what the day marks, why it needs no separate muhurat for gold buying or new beginnings, and what still depends on your own chart.

Ram Navami falls on Thursday, 15 April 2027. Here is why the madhyahna hour matters more than any single clock time, how it closes out Chaitra Navratri, and what the day actually asks of the people who keep it.

Ugadi, Gudi Padwa, Cheti Chand and Navreh all mark the same moment on the lunar calendar. In 2027 that moment falls on Wednesday, 7 April, the first day of Chaitra and the start of the new Samvatsara.

Holika Dahan falls on 22 March 2027 and Rangwali Holi on 23 March, but the bonfire itself waits out Bhadra first. Here's the full-moon story behind both dates.

Some calendars print 7 March, others 6 March. Both are reading the same panchang correctly, just at different hours of the night. Here is why the nishita puja belongs to the night of Saturday, 6 March 2027, and how the four-prahar worship actually runs.

Vasant Panchami falls on Thursday, 11 February 2027. Here is the Saraswati Puja timing, and why this is one of the rare days when a wedding, a griha pravesh, or a child's first lesson needs no separate muhurat at all.

Makar Sankranti 2027 falls on 15 January, not the 14th, because the Sun's sidereal entry into Makara that year lands at 21:10 IST on the 14th, after sunset, which pushes the punya kaal to the following sunrise.

Atla Taddi falls on Wednesday, 28 October 2026, a day before Karva Chauth. Find your city's moonrise, the pradosh window for Gauri puja, and how the nirjala vrat, the nomu, and the ten atlu naivedyam are observed.

Thulam Ayilyam falls on 2 November 2026 at the Mannarasala Sree Nagaraja Temple. Here is what the day means, what happens there, and what sarpa dosha actually points to in a birth chart.

Sharad Purnima falls on 25 October 2026: the Kojagara vigil, when the kheer goes out under the moon, and a nishita quirk that shifts the date abroad.

Muhurat trading is Diwali's one-hour Samvat new-year session. NSE and BSE set the hour by circular, not the panchang. Here is the custom, honestly.

Kali Puja 2026 falls on Diwali night, but it runs on nishitha, not pradosh. What that rite is, and why 2027 splits the two dates apart.

Diwali 2026 falls on Sunday, 8 November. The Lakshmi puja muhurat is where pradosh kaal and a fixed Vrishabha ascendant overlap, and that overlap is a different clock window in every city. Full computed tables for 16 Indian cities and six cities abroad, in IST and in each city's own local time.

Chopda pujan is the Diwali worship of a business's new account books: what the first page says, who performs it, and how its timing actually works.