In Vedic Astrology or Jyotish Ascendant, which is the Zodiac sign rising in the east at the time of birth, is given much weightage. Ascendant is the First house in the Ascendant chart which could be any zodiac (1-12) depending on rising sign in the east horizon. Rest of the houses are filled counter clockwise.There are 12 Zodiac signs in the cosmos surrounding Earth and 9 Planets or stars including Sun, Moon, Rahu and Ketu in Vedic astrology. Each zodiac is assigned with the ownership of these planets. These zodiacs alongwith their Lords are

Besides these sign of zodiacs there are 27 star constellations consisting of 13 deg 20 min each thus gives total of 27 X 13 deg 20 min = 360 deg. The name of these Star constellations are

Each Star Constellation is further subdivided into four parts called charans of 3 deg 20 min each thus giving total of 27 X 4 = 108 charans i.e. again 3 deg 20 min X 108 = 360 deg. As these planets moves around in the sky, they pass through these zodiacs and also comes into conjunctions and aspects with other planets for good or bad effects. This will be more explained in the next article.