Horary astrology — generate a Prashna Kundali chart for the exact moment of your question
Prashna, or horary astrology, casts a chart for the moment and the place at which a question is taken up, and reads that chart for the question. No birth details are used or needed.
The moment is the input, which is why the form on this page defaults to now and to your current timezone, and why the place matters as much as the time: the ascendant moves through a full sign roughly every two hours and depends on latitude.
This page offers two methods. The Prashna Chart mode casts a full chart for the chosen moment and place and hands it to the standard result view, so the whole apparatus of houses, divisional charts, yogas and doshas is available on the question moment. The KP Horary mode takes a number from 1 to 249 instead and runs the Krishnamurti Paddhati judgement, which is a narrower and more procedural reading.
The zodiac of 360 degrees divides into 27 nakshatras of 13 degrees 20 minutes each, and KP divides each nakshatra further into nine sub-divisions in proportion to the Vimshottari dasha years, since 9 times 27 is 243. The count is 249 rather than 243 because a sub-division can straddle a sign boundary; where it does, the table splits it into two entries, one in each sign, and those six extra splits make up the difference.
The number the querent gives selects one of those 249 rows, and that row fixes the Prashna Lagna. The ascendant is taken at the starting degree of the sub-division.
That is an arbitrated default rather than an inherited habit: of the three candidate conventions, only the starting degree reproduces the published anchor for number 145, which is Libra 29 degrees 26 minutes 40 seconds in Vishakha, and the sub's ending degree is ruled out because the 249 intervals are half-open. The dissenting reading, the centre of the sub, is available as a labelled option, and the row's sign, star lord and sub lord are identical under both.
The sub-lord is the distinguishing device of the KP system. Every point in the zodiac has a sign lord, a star lord from its nakshatra, and a sub lord from its position within that nakshatra's nine unequal sub-divisions. In a horary judgement the ascendant's sub-lord is the primary indicator of whether the matter fructifies, and the cuspal sub-lord of the house that governs the question is read alongside it.
The page also prints the ruling planets for the moment: the lagna sign lord, the lagna star lord, the Moon sign lord, the Moon star lord, the Moon sub lord and the day lord. Eleven question categories are available, which are general success, marriage, career, business, children, finance, property, health, litigation, education and foreign travel, and the category decides which houses the judgement reads.
KP is defined on Placidus cusps, not on equal houses. That creates a puzzle in horary, because the ascendant is fixed by the querent's number rather than read off the clock, so the other eleven cusps have to be recovered from it.
This engine inverts the problem: it finds the instant on the querent's own day, at the querent's own place, at which the sidereal ascendant equals the Prashna Lagna, and reads the Placidus ring there. Building the ring as the ascendant plus multiples of 30 degrees would be an equal-house ring and not KP at all; on a Delhi chart real Placidus houses run between about 22.75 and 34.75 degrees wide.
Where that inversion cannot be trusted, the page says so instead of printing a confident answer. Placidus itself ceases to exist inside the polar circle at about 66.56 degrees of latitude, and the solver's monotonicity fails at the same boundary, so a question taken up at a polar latitude produces an explicit degradation notice rather than a converged-looking result. Every solved ring also carries the residual the solver actually achieved, so the reading can be checked rather than trusted.
One chart answers one question, because the chart is a picture of one moment. A second question means a second moment and therefore a second chart, and changing your mind about which question you are asking after the chart is cast changes which houses are read. That is why this page asks you to state the question and pick the category before it computes anything.
The classical Kerala horary tradition this app draws on is Prasna Marga, composed in 1649, which also supplies several natal points used elsewhere on the site. Where a rule here comes from that text or from the KP literature it is attributed; where a construction has no locus, it is shown as a construction with that disclosure attached rather than dressed up as classical.