Read the charts
before you commit.

You are an experienced Vedic astrologer (Jyotish). I am giving you two natal charts and one question: is this a partnership worth committing to? Read the charts cold — assume nothing about our history, status, or circumstances beyond what I state here. Answer the way you would want it answered if the charts were yours: strengths stated plainly, problems stated just as plainly, nothing softened for comfort. A compatibility reading that only says what I want to hear is useless at the moment I most need it.

The two people

• Person A: [name], born [date], [time, with am/pm and timezone], [city, country]
• Person B: [name], born [date], [time, with am/pm and timezone], [city, country]
• Context you may use: [optional — e.g. "we have been dating six months", "we are considering marriage". Leave blank for a fully cold read.]

Source of truth

Use the attached charts from vedicastrochart.com (Lahiri ayanamsa, sidereal, Vimshottari dasha) as the only source for planetary positions, nakshatras, houses and dasha dates. Do not estimate or recalculate any position from memory. If a chart is missing or a position is unclear, say so and stop rather than guessing. State both Moon positions (sign, degree, nakshatra, pada) explicitly before doing anything else, because every score depends on them.

Method — Ashta Kuta, worked from the rules, not recalled

Compute all eight kutas and show the working for each, so I can check it. Use the classical rules below; do not substitute a remembered score.

1. Varna (1) — by Moon *sign*, not Ascendant. Brahmin: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces. Kshatriya: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius. Vaishya: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn. Shudra: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius. Full point if the man's varna is equal to or above the woman's.
2. Vashya (2) — by Moon sign group, degree-aware: Sagittarius first half is human, second half quadruped; Capricorn first half quadruped, second half water. Same group = 2; use the standard partial table otherwise.
3. Tara (3) — count inclusively from her nakshatra to his and from his to hers; reduce each count mod 9. 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 are favourable. 1.5 for each favourable direction.
4. Yoni (4) — by nakshatra animal. Same animal 4; one of the seven enemy pairs (horse–buffalo, elephant–lion, sheep–monkey, serpent–mongoose, dog–deer, cat–rat, cow–tiger) = 0; otherwise neutral.
5. Graha Maitri (5) — by the natural friendship between the two Moon-*sign lords* (not nakshatra rulers). Both friends 5; friend/neutral 4; both neutral 3; friend/enemy 1; neutral/enemy 0.5; both enemies 0.
6. Gana (6) — Deva, Manushya, Rakshasa by nakshatra, using the standard man/woman table.
7. Bhakoot (7) — count Moon signs from hers to his. Only 2/12, 5/9 and 6/8 are doshas (score 0). Every other pattern — including 1/7, 3/11 and 4/10 — scores the full 7. Do not treat any other pattern as a dosha.
8. Nadi (8) — Adi / Madhya / Antya by nakshatra. Same Nadi 0; different 8.

Give the total out of 36 and say which of the three serious doshas (Gana, Bhakoot, Nadi) are present, if any. Then — and this matters — explain each score in plain language: what it means for how we will actually live, not what it is called.

Beyond the score

The Ashta Kuta is the foundation, not the reading. Also cover, with the same directness:

• Who each person is, from their own chart: Ascendant and its nakshatra, Sun, Moon, anything conjunct the Ascendant, the nodal axis, any exalted or debilitated planet, and what each person's chart says they need from a partner and cannot tolerate.
• Cross-chart synastry: one person's planets on the other's Ascendant, Moon, Sun or nodes; Venus in the other's Moon nakshatra; shared placements (same nodal axis, same exalted planet, same nakshatra); planets falling in each other's 4th, 7th and 8th houses. Say which of these are rare and why they matter.
• Dasha timing: which Maha Dasha and Antardasha each person is in now, when the next shifts come, and whether the two life-seasons are aligned or diverging. Different seasons are a known failure pattern — say if it applies.
• The direction of support: use Tara and the synastry to say plainly who steadies whom, and whether the flow is mutual or one-way.
• Commitment signatures in either chart (e.g. Rahu or Ketu in the 7th, Saturn on the Ascendant, Venus afflicted, Jyeshtha or Mula emphasis) and what they mean structurally — i.e. patterns that will not change with a better partner.

Format

Write it as a document with these sections, in this order:

1. *How to Read This* — a short opening, then a one-line verdict in a box.
2. *The Two People* — each person as their own chart describes them.
3. *The Classical Score* — the eight kutas in a table (score, plain-language meaning), the total, and a paragraph on the one or two scores that matter most.
4. *What Is Genuinely Strong Here* — the real strengths, each one named and explained.
5. *The Three Problems* — the three things most likely to break this, stated without hedging. If there are fewer than three real problems, say so; do not invent them. If there are more, pick the three that matter most and list the rest under the next heading.
6. *Smaller Things Worth Knowing*.
7. *What It Would Take* — requirements, not suggestions, for this partnership to work.
8. *Verdict* — a plain answer to the question, with a closing box.

Keep technical terms to a minimum in the body; put the Sanskrit term in small type after the plain-language label where it helps. No comparisons to any other person. Do not tell me what I want to hear. If the charts say "not this, not now," say that.