Where the nine grahas stand right now: sign, exact degree in that sign, nakshatra, pada, and whether each is moving direct or retrograde. Longitudes are sidereal (Nirayana), reckoned with the Lahiri ayanamsha and computed to sub-arcsecond precision. Switch to the month view to read the same nine bodies day by day across a full calendar month. Nothing here needs your birth details - this is the sky itself, not a chart.
The table states position, and only position. Every value in it is measured, not interpreted:
These are Nirayana (sidereal) longitudes: the tropical position minus the ayanamsha, the slowly growing gap between the equinox and the fixed stars. The ayanamsha used here is Lahiri (Chitra-paksha), the Indian government standard and the default throughout this site, currently a little over 24 degrees.
That is why a Western ephemeris will usually place a planet about 24 degrees further along than this table does - most of a whole sign, so a planet in the last third of a Vedic sign will often show up in the next one. Neither is wrong; they are measurements against two different zero points. The positions shown here are the ones a Vedic chart, a panchang and a gochar reading are all built from.
A graha is retrograde when, seen from Earth, it appears to move backwards against the stars - an effect of the two bodies orbiting at different speeds, not of the planet reversing. Only Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn actually turn: the Sun and Moon never do, and with the mean node used here Rahu and Ketu are retrograde every day of the year.
That is why the summary line above the table names only the planets that have genuinely turned. For the exact dates each retrograde window opens and closes, see the retrograde tracker.
There is no house column here, and that is a decision rather than an omission. A house is counted from something in a birth chart - the ascendant, or the natal Moon for gochar. This page has no birth chart by construction, so there is nothing to count from, and printing a house number anyway would be printing a placeholder.
It also offers no reading of the positions. If you want the transits weighed against your own chart - houses from your natal Moon, Sade Sati, Ashtakavarga bindus, day-by-day favourability - that work belongs on the Transits and Transit Calendar pages, which ask for birth details because they genuinely need them.
No. Planetary positions are the same for everyone on Earth at a given moment - only the houses they fall in depend on your birth chart. This page asks for nothing and loads today's positions immediately.
Sidereal (Nirayana), using the Lahiri (Chitra-paksha) ayanamsha, which is the standard for Vedic astrology in India. A tropical (Western) ephemeris will normally show a planet about 24 degrees further along - four-fifths of a sign, so the two often disagree about which sign a planet is in.
Each row in the month view is computed for 00:00 UTC on its date, which is 05:30 IST. The Moon moves about 13 degrees a day, so its sign or nakshatra can change later in the same day; the today view always shows the live position.
Houses are counted from your ascendant, or from your natal Moon in gochar. Without birth details there is no reference point to count from, so no house number can honestly be given. The Transits page shows houses once a chart is loaded.
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn turn retrograde periodically. The Sun and Moon never do. Rahu and Ketu, taken here as the mean node, are retrograde all the time, so they are listed as retrograde every day.
From January 1801 to December 2100. The floor is 1801 rather than 1800 because the ephemeris data opens on 1800-01-01 itself, leaving that one date with no room to interpolate from - so it is refused outright rather than answered from a lower-precision model. Every date the page does accept is computed from the full-precision data.
For educational purposes. Astrological interpretations are traditional and not a substitute for professional advice.