New Delhi, India — 2026-10-25
A moon-sign (janma-rāśi) feed, and it says so. Verdicts follow Phaladeepika's transit table with vedha; timings are computed; the tradition layer is labeled and cited — never blended with the facts. No lucky colours, no percentages: no citable rule exists for them.
06:28:09 2026-10-25 → 06:28:49 2026-10-26 · the Hindu day (sunrise to next sunrise) at the requested place
Traditional interpretation — Varāhamihira and the later compilations · Bṛhat Saṁhitā, the birth-star qualities chapter, for temperament; nakṣatra deities and lords per the classical Vimśottarī scheme; the fuller janma-nakṣatra phala as transmitted in the later compilations
Citrā, the brilliant, is the star of Tvaṣṭṛ — Viśvakarman, the celestial architect — with Mars as its Vimśottarī lord; a birth here opens the Mars daśā. Varāhamihira's line pictures one who delights in bright garments and garlands, beautiful of eye and limb, and the tradition reads Citrā as the jewel on the wheel: design, craftsmanship, the drive to make something striking and the eye that cannot leave a surface unimproved.
That image is the classical seat; the fuller narratives around Citrā births belong to the later compilations, and this passage leans on them only with that label showing. The texts then defer to the chart: Citrā spans Virgo and Libra, so the Moon's sign and pada carry real weight, along with the aspects falling on it and the condition of the opening Mars daśā — the computed chart says which conditions are present.
Tradition, not fact
The tara cycle and the latta rules are TRADITION; the timings and positions are computed. The two are never blended.
Tara cycle: Kalaprakashika ch. XXXIII (the registered muhurta.tarabala three-cycle convention governs the Moon rows); latta: Phaladeepika XXVI.42-47 (study gochara-rashifal-2026-07-30.md). Extending the tara count to non-Moon grahas is MODERN PRACTICE with no classical chapter — those rows say practice: 'modern'.
Boundary times are root-found and residual-verified, never interpolated. Change the convention and these numbers change — which is why it is printed beside them.