A birth chart stays fixed for life, but Tajika astrology has a separate technique for reading the tone of a single year: Varshphal.
How Varshphal is cast
Varshphal is an annual chart cast for the exact moment the Sun returns to the same sidereal degree it occupied at birth, close to each birthday. Like a birth chart, it has its own ascendant and all nine planets, except these positions are for that year’s solar-return instant, not the moment of birth.
What Muntha shows
Muntha isn’t a planet. It’s a point derived mathematically: it advances one zodiac sign from the natal ascendant for every completed year of age. That’s why at the very first solar return, age one, Muntha sits exactly on the natal ascendant. Whichever house Muntha falls in within the Varshphal chart gives an early read on that year’s general character, alongside the strength and placement of Muntha’s ruling planet.
How it differs from a birth chart
A birth chart is cast once, for the exact moment of birth, and stays the same for life. Varshphal is cast fresh every year and reflects only that one year’s tone. Both depend heavily on an accurate birth time, since the Varshphal ascendant, like the natal ascendant, is tied to the earth’s rotation.
Generate your own
The Varshphal calculator takes your birth details and any target year and returns the ascendant, Muntha and all nine planetary positions, free, with precise astronomical calculations.
This information is descriptive; it is not a definite prediction.