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Planetary aspect tables

Planetary aspects, or graha dṛṣṭi, describe where a planet casts its sight. Mạghā's Aspects tab scores the nine grahas' aspects on one another and on twelve houses. A dash marks no aspect; special full aspects follow Parāśara's rules.

Parāśara grades each aspect by the distance between two points

Parāśara's exact aspect method counts forward from the aspecting planet. Mạghā scores zero within 30°, then 15 at 60°, 45 at 90°, 30 at 120°, zero at 150° and 60 at opposition, fading to zero by 300°. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn gain strength around their special aspects. In Nila's example, Jupiter scores 56.5 on Ketu and 51.3 on Mars; nearby Sun, Mercury, Venus and Rāhu score zero.

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Parāśara judges houses and strength through these aspects

Parāśara closes his chapter on aspects in Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra by telling the astrologer to judge the results of the houses through them. His chapter on planetary strength then turns the same values into Dṛk Bala, which adds strength for the benefic aspects a planet receives and takes it away for malefic ones. Mạghā's Ṣaḍbala uses the same aspect curve.

Read each row as the planet casting the aspect and each column as the planet or house receiving it. Aspects run one way: Nila's Mars scores 59.5 on Saturn, while Saturn scores only 1.1 on Mars. Planets beside each other score nothing, so Jupiter's row shows a dash for Venus, under a degree away in Libra.

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Aspect scores in Mạghā

The Aspects tab scores nine grahas against planets and houses in D1. Scores have one decimal place; stronger cells are shaded. Rāhu and Ketu use the general curve without special aspects.

House scores always use equal 30° houses centred on the Ascendant, regardless of the selected house system.

Note: Mạghā adds special-aspect bonuses of 15 for Mars, 30 for Jupiter and 45 for Saturn instead of Parāśara’s formulas capped at 60. Saturn can reach 90; the sample shows 78.3.

What people ask about planetary aspects

Which houses does each planet aspect in Vedic astrology?

Every planet aspects the 7th house from itself in full. Parāśara adds full aspects for three planets: Mars on the 4th and 8th houses, Jupiter on the 5th and 9th, and Saturn on the 3rd and 10th.

Otherwise those houses receive partial aspects that grow by quarters: a quarter on the 3rd and 10th, a half on the 5th and 9th and three quarters on the 4th and 8th.

Why does Jupiter aspect the 5th, 7th and 9th houses?

Because Parāśara assigns them. His chapter on aspects gives Jupiter full aspects on the 5th and 9th houses, the trines, besides the 7th that every planet aspects, and states the rule without explaining it. In Mạghā's tables Jupiter gains 30 points between 120° and 150° ahead of it and between 240° and 270°, the zones of those two aspects.

Do Rāhu and Ketu have aspects?

Parāśara's chapter on aspects names special aspects only for Mars, Jupiter and Saturn and does not mention the nodes. Later authors disagree: some give Rāhu and Ketu Jupiter's 5th and 9th aspects, others only the 7th. Mạghā's tables give both nodes the general curve without special zones, so in the sample each scores a full 60 on the other.

Are Vedic aspects counted by sign or by degree?

Both. In everyday practice a planet aspects whatever occupies the 7th sign from it, plus its special signs. Parāśara's exact method counts degrees, and that is what Mạghā's tables score, so the two can disagree: Nila's Mars sits in the 10th sign from Jupiter, yet scores 51.3.

The tables do not cover the sign-to-sign aspects (rāśi dṛṣṭi) that Parāśara describes separately.

Open the aspect tables for your own chart

Nila Raman's planets-on-planets aspect scores, including Jupiter to Ketu 56.5; the web table also shows Jupiter to Mars 51.3. — Nila Raman’s chart is frozen at 12 September 2026. The web frame shows the planets-on-planets table with Jupiter to Ketu 56.5 and Jupiter to Mars 51.3; scrolling to Ketu moves the row names off the left edge. The phone frame shows the real Aspects card scrolled to Jupiter to Ketu 56.5. Its 0–60 basis label does not cap special-aspect bonuses, as the page's Note explains. The demo cannot calculate arbitrary birth details.

See how strongly each of your nine grahas aspects your planets and your houses, score by score. Like every astrology feature in Mạghā, the tables are free for life; the preview uses the chart.

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