A Vedic birth chart for every listed company
Dhisha treats the day a company's shares first traded as its birth. From that moment we cast a Vedic (sidereal) birth chart, work out its Vimshottari dasha periods, and set the stock's price history against them.
On the site you can:
- Open a company's chart: the D1, D9 and D10 charts, planet positions, the full dasha timeline, how the stock moved in each period against its index, today's transits, fundamentals and news. See the Apple or Reliance sample.
- Browse Growth Dasha: nightly lists of companies whose running dasha matches classical growth or struggle combinations, with today's planetary positions. Open Growth Dasha.
- Look at the markets: the S&P 500, NIFTY 50 and gold over more than 30 years, with each day's transits and the biggest up and down days. Open Markets.
Dhisha is for exploring astrology. It is not investment advice, and the tests we ran did not find that dashas predict returns.
What is financial astrology?
Financial astrology applies astrology to markets: reading the charts of stock exchanges, indices and companies, and timing market moves by planetary transits and cycles. It is also called stock market astrology or market astrology. Western astrologers mostly work with transits, ingresses and planetary cycles; Vedic astrology for stocks adds the Vimshottari dasha system, which divides a chart's life into periods ruled by each of the nine grahas.
Dhisha takes the Vedic route. Every listed company gets a sidereal birth chart cast for its first trading day, and astrology stock analysis on the site means setting the stock's actual price history against the dasha periods and transits in that chart, next to the S&P 500 or NIFTY 50.
We also test the ideas the way a quant would, an approach sometimes called astro-quant: rules are written down before they are tried, then measured on thousands of companies, with charts cast for fake birth dates as a control. What our tests found.
How a company's chart is cast
A birth chart needs a date, a time and a place. For a company we use the moment its shares opened for trading on their first day:
- Date
- The company's first listing date on record (see below).
- Time
- The market open: 09:30 New York time for US listings, 10:00 India time for NSE listings.
- Place
- The company's registered address for US companies and its headquarters for Indian ones. Without an address on record we use New York (the NYSE) or Mumbai, and the chart says so.
- Zodiac
- Sidereal, with the True Chitra ayanamsa (the Spica-based correction close to Lahiri).
- Houses
- Whole-sign houses counted from the lagna (ascendant): the lagna's sign is the 1st house, the next sign the 2nd, and so on.
- Nodes
- Mean Rahu and Ketu.
- Divisional charts
- D9 (Navamsa, strength) and D10 (Dasamsa, career and enterprise), alongside the D1 (Rashi) birth chart.
- Planet positions
- Computed from a high-precision astronomical ephemeris.
Each company page shows the date, time, place and ayanamsa it was cast with, so you can check it in any other astrology program.
Choosing the listing date
The chart is only as good as its date, and market data vendors often get old listing dates wrong. We use the earliest date the company's own shares traded:
- When a company has moved between exchanges (for example from over-the-counter trading to the NYSE), we use the first trading day, not the later exchange move.
- When a vendor's IPO date is later than the price history we hold for the same shares, we use the first day of continuous price history.
- We correct a date only from a source that states it, such as the company's own investor pages (AMD's FAQ gives its IPO as 27 September 1972) or an exchange announcement. A date we cannot confirm stays as it is.
- Vendors fill unknown dates with placeholders shared by hundreds of companies (17 March 1980 or 2 January 1975, for example). A chart on a placeholder date is marked Listing date unknown, left out of the Growth and Struggle lists, and kept out of search engines.
- For NSE companies we check the date against the company's BSE history. Charts whose first listing could not be verified are labelled and kept out of the lists.
After a merger, rename or spin-off, the shares on record can belong to a predecessor company, so the chart describes that company's first listing.
Dasha periods
Vimshottari dasha divides a 120-year cycle among the nine grahas. The starting point comes from the Moon: the nakshatra the Moon sits in at the listing decides which planet's period runs first, and how far the Moon has travelled through that nakshatra decides how much of it is already used up.
| Planet | Mahadasha length |
|---|---|
| Ketu | 7 years |
| Venus | 20 years |
| Sun | 6 years |
| Moon | 10 years |
| Mars | 7 years |
| Rahu | 18 years |
| Jupiter | 16 years |
| Saturn | 19 years |
| Mercury | 17 years |
- The mahadasha (MD) is the main period. Each one is split into nine antardashas (AD), in the same order and in proportion to the planets' years, and each antardasha into nine pratyantars (PD).
- A year is 365.25 days.
- For each period the company page shows the stock's change from the first close in the period to the last, next to the S&P 500 (US) or NIFTY 50 (India) over the same dates. Indian price history starts in 2016.
Growth and Struggle lists
Every night we check the running dasha of every eligible company. Those whose mahadasha, antardasha and pratyantar lords line up with classical growth combinations go on the Growth list, and those that line up with difficult ones go on the Struggle list. The Growth Dasha page shows the top 50 of each for the US and for India.
- Rank, ticker and size. Strongest score first, with market value and sector.
- Price line. The stock since the current antardasha began (solid line) against the index (dashed), both as a percentage change from that day.
- So far. The stock's change over the running mahadasha and antardasha, with the index over the same dates.
- MD, AD, PD. The three running lords. The first number is the house the lord sits in, then the houses it rules. The bar shows how much of the period has passed and how long is left.
- Same chart. Companies that listed on the same day share one chart, so we show the largest and name the others.
On the Growth list, Starting this week shows companies whose growth pratyantar begins in the next seven days, and Ending soon shows growth pratyantars about to finish. Above the lists, Today's sky gives every planet's sign, degree and nakshatra at the market open, with sign changes, exaltations and retrogrades.
How a company makes a list
Houses are counted from the lagna. A lord is tied to a house when it rules that sign, sits in it, or (for Rahu and Ketu) co-rules it: Rahu co-rules Aquarius and Ketu co-rules Scorpio. The 2nd and 11th houses are wealth and gains; the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 9th, 10th and 11th are growth houses; the 6th, 8th and 12th are the dusthanas.
Growth
- The mahadasha and antardasha lords are both tied to the 2nd or 11th house.
- The pratyantar lord sits in a growth house (1, 2, 5, 9, 10 or 11).
- Neither the mahadasha nor the antardasha lord sits in the 6th, 8th or 12th, and neither is debilitated (without cancellation) or combust.
- The rulebook score for the antardasha is +0.5 or more.
Struggle
- The mahadasha and antardasha lords are both tied to the 6th, 8th or 12th house.
- The pratyantar lord sits in the 6th, 8th or 12th.
- At least one of the mahadasha and antardasha lords sits in the 6th, 8th or 12th, or is debilitated (without cancellation) or combust.
- The rulebook score for the antardasha is −0.5 or less.
The rulebook score adds fixed points for classical judgements about the antardasha: the strength and houses of the two lords, where the antardasha lord sits counted from the mahadasha lord, their nakshatras and taras, yogas they take part in, the order of the mahadasha in the company's life, malefic aspects on the 2nd and 11th houses, and a benefic in the lagna. The scoring rules were fixed in writing before they were tested against prices, so they are not tuned to past returns.
Who is included. Operating companies (no funds) with a real listing date, still trading, priced at $1 or more (₹20 in India), and trading at least $5 million (₹5 crore) a day on average over the last 20 days. Indian companies also need a verified listing date. Lists are ranked by score, strongest first, then by market value. They are rebuilt every night.
What our tests found
We tested these rules, and many others, against real returns: about 14,600 US and 1,800 Indian companies, and against the same companies' charts cast with a shifted Moon (a placebo). Growth periods did not beat the market more often than other periods, and the gap between growth and struggle periods was no bigger than chance.
The price changes on Dhisha describe what happened during past periods. They do not show that a dasha caused them or will repeat. Nothing here is investment advice.
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