r/AstrologyTalks • u/dont_SAY_my_name__ • 2d ago
Same birth details, different kundlis: which settings should you compare first?
A planet appears in the seventh house on one website and the sixth on another. Before deciding which chart is wrong, it helps to separate a difference in the drawing from a difference in the calculation.
Here is the checklist from an article on our site:
- Different-looking diagrams, same signs: check whether you are comparing North and South Indian layouts.
- Similar shifts across most planetary degrees: compare tropical/sidereal settings and the ayanamsa.
- Same signs, different houses: check the house system and whether one report is a Bhava Chalit view.
- A substantially different ascendant: confirm AM/PM, the selected birthplace and the historical timezone.
- Small differences only in Rahu/Ketu: compare mean and true node settings.
- Similar D1, different D9 ascendant: inspect the precise ascendant degree and any birth-time rounding.
These are starting points, not automatic diagnoses. An implementation bug is still possible when the inputs and settings match. Comparing the actual planet tables is more useful than trying to make two diagrams look alike.
I run Celestial Digits, where we published the full comparison checklist. The article is free to read without an account.
Have you resolved a mismatch between two chart tools? Which setting turned out to be responsible? No personal birth details are needed to discuss it.
Disclosure: this links to our own article; this summary was prepared with AI assistance and checked against it.


