DashaHQThe DashaHQ journal
Vedic ideas, read calmly.
Short explainers on the tradition's machinery — dashas, nakshatras, panchanga — written as education and reflection, never as forecast.
What is a Vimshottari dasha? The clock behind your seasons
Dasha periods divide a life into themed chapters in the Vedic tradition. How the clock works, and why this app reads it as reflection rather than forecast.
2026-09-25
Sade Sati, without the fear
Sade Sati is the most dramatized transit in popular astrology. What the tradition actually says, and a calmer way to hold seven and a half years of Saturn.
2026-09-25
The panchanga: five limbs of a Vedic day
Vara, tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana: the five limbs of the Vedic almanac, explained plainly, with how each colors the texture of a day.
2026-09-26
Whole-sign houses, plainly
The oldest house system in astrology is also the simplest: each sign is a whole house, starting from your rising sign. Why we use it and what changes.
2026-09-26
Nakshatras: the twenty-seven lunar mansions
Twenty-seven lunar mansions, four padas each: the fine brushwork of Vedic astrology, and the measurement that starts a birth chart's dasha clock.
2026-09-27
Tropical vs. sidereal: why we compute with the Lahiri ayanamsa
Your 'sign' depends on who you ask. The ayanamsa is the arithmetic behind the difference, and why DashaHQ computes with the Lahiri standard.
2026-09-27
Your first reading: what you are actually looking at
New to astrology entirely? Here is what the daily reflection contains, where each line comes from, and what we suggest you do with it.
2026-09-28
A skeptic tries a daily reflection
Fair enough. Here is which parts of this app are arithmetic, which parts are tradition, and exactly what we do and do not claim.
2026-09-28
How the dasha clock is computed, down to the arithmetic
Moon longitude to nakshatra, nakshatra to lord, lord to years: the actual Vimshottari arithmetic, stated so you can check it with a calculator.
2026-09-29
A field guide to your dashboard
Streaks, resonates, the wheel, the current period line: what every element on the DashaHQ dashboard is for, in plain language.
2026-09-29
The navagraha: seven wanderers and two points
Nine grahas anchor the Vedic scheme: seven visible bodies and two computed points. Who they are, what the old stories say, and why the weekdays agree.
2026-09-30
Mercury retrograde: the astronomy under the memes
What retrograde motion is, what the Jyotisha tradition makes of it, and how this app reads it without the drama.
2026-10-01
Why this app will not pick your auspicious moment
Muhurta is the classical craft of choosing a suitable moment to begin something. What the tradition says, and why this product stays out of that business.
2026-10-02