cally, seeing house boundaries and cusps (bhava madhyas) and sign boundaries, and watch
planets transit around a chart.
Another priceless feature is its Yogas and Time Search tool. With incredible ease, you
can search for when, in the past or the future, any planets were in specific signs, degrees, or
degree ranges (e.g., a Moon at 4° to 6° Aries). You can also search a chart file to see which
charts have any individual classical yoga or combination of yogas. Finally, you can construct
your own combinations of factors, complete with “and/or” logic, and search your chart file to see
who has them. For example, you could look for who has the ascendant hemmed in by malefics
while in a particular nakshatra and while the lord of the ascendant is in the navamsha of a great
enemy (or, of course, any simpler search.) Shri Jyoti Star’s searches are lightning fast, simple to
do, and completely accurate. After a search is done, you can click on any of the names listed (of
people who met the search requirements) and instantly view their charts.
The newest features include a neat “instant prashna” where you can ask a question and get
an answer, and a group muhurta, i.e., find the best nakshatra for a person, couple, or group to initi-
ate an activity. It can draw brilliantly executed aspect lines between points in both rasi and varga
charts (a first!) and between any two charts with the ability to set orbs. It also has five tables of
Arabic parts, the ability to analyze a rasi chart for a person’s inner harmony/tension and compati-
bility with family members, a Levacy-style South Indian chart, and Arudha Padas in all charts.
There is even powerful Astro*Carto*Graphy mapping that allows you to instantly relocate one or
two people’s charts, as well as the unique ability to see two people’s planetary lines on one map.
Shri Jyoti Star offers superb accuracy, many Hart and Iyer options, simple drag-and-drop
chart positioning on both the screen and printed page forms, a rich panchang report, a simple
chart relocation tool, the largest number of dasa methods, and much more.
Jyotish Studio (a.k.a. Goravani’s Jyotish).This program (by Dancing Moon Inc.) has an
immense reference section that contains a Vedic tutorial with several lessons, an extensive
glossary of Jyotish terminology, valuable tables (e.g., exact degree of exaltation, nakshatras,
friendships, etc.), and the full text of both the Bhagavad Gitaand David Frawley’s Vedic astrol-
ogy book, Astrology of the Seers.It also has an incredible list of karakas, i.e., the planets, houses,
or signs that signify specific objects, people, etc. (e.g., Epistles and the 3rd house, or Esophagus
and the Moon).
The predictive features of Jyotish Studio are diverse and powerful. The Panchang func-
tion can show either detailed information on a specific day, complete with the results for an
individual chart, or a listing of any duration of all of the relevant factors like the tithi, karana,
yoga, nakshatra, paksha, etc. The transit hit list function allows you to see when planets form
exact tajika aspects; and shows sign, nakshatra, navamsha, and antardasa ingresses; conjunc-
tions to equal, placidus, and shri pati house cusps, and conjunctions to upagraha, the yogi
point, and the part of fortune. The excellently designed tarabala calendar shows a monthly
calendar with detailed information for each day on the tithi, nakshatra, moon sign, tara bala
from the moon and ascendant, chandra bala from the moon and the ascendant, and the bright/
dark quality of the Moon. It also shows changes, to four levels, of the dasa, and planetary sta-
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