Dig Bala with real chart angles
Use the Ascendant and Midheaven rather than merely assigning a fixed score by house number.
Mercury/Jupiter are strongest toward the Ascendant, Sun/Mars toward the Midheaven, Moon/Venus toward the IC, and Saturn toward the Descendant.
The engine calculates the sidereal Midheaven from the chart UTC moment and longitude, then measures distance from the planet’s weakest opposite point.
The result ranges continuously from 0 to 60 Virupas rather than jumping in twelve whole-sign steps.
Shadbala is a component system, not one magical number. Read each Bala separately and ask what dimension it measures before looking at any sum.
This course intentionally labels unvalidated components as pending. A partial audit sum must never be renamed “full Shadbala”; transparency is more important than completing a table with uncertain formulas.
How to read it
- Select one of the seven classical planets.
- Read each available Bala component separately.
- Open its sub-component audit where provided.
- Note source-profile choices such as Drekkana Bala.
- Do not compare a partial audit sum with a classical full-Shadbala threshold.
Key points
- 60 Virupas = 1 Rupa.
- Different Bala components measure different dimensions.
- Pending components remain visibly pending.
Do not convert the current partial Shadbala audit into a definitive “strong/weak planet” ranking.
Apply this lesson to a chart
- Open Shadbala Lab and choose one planet.
- Explain what Sthana, Dig, Naisargika and Drik Bala each measure.
- Identify which components are still withheld and why that matters.