How Vaara makes its readings
What is computed from your birth details, what comes from Jyotish tradition, and which conventions the app has chosen. This page carries the evidence disclosure and the provenance notes that used to sit under the chart and the readings.
The disclosure, first
Vaara is belief-based guidance drawn from Jyotish tradition. There is no scientific evidence that astrology predicts events or affects health. Nothing in the app is a prediction of what will happen, and nothing in it is advice about your health, your money or your relationships.
What is computed, and what is chosen
The chart is real arithmetic on your birth details. The readings are written content selected by that chart. Those are different things and the app should never blur them.
- Positions come from an astronomical engine, not a lookup table, using the date, time and place you entered.
- The zodiac is sidereal, with the Lahiri ayanamsa. This is the standard Indian convention and the one most Indian charts you will have seen use. Other ayanamsas exist and disagree with it by small amounts; a chart cast under a different one can put a graha near a boundary into the neighbouring sign.
- Houses are whole sign. The sign containing the ascendant is the whole of the first house, the next sign the whole of the second, and so on. This is the classical Indian system. Charts cast with a different house system — the ones that split houses at computed cusps — will place some grahas in a different house from this app, and neither is a mistake.
- The dasha timeline is Vimshottari, computed from the Moon's position at birth. It is fixed for life: the dates are arithmetic on one number, so they never move.
- Time zones come from the device's own time-zone database for the place and date you gave, which is what makes a birth time from before a country changed its rules resolve correctly.
Where the readings come from
Readings are composed from reviewed content banks and selected by your chart. They are not written individually for you, and no part of the app generates text as you read it. What the chart screen shows is what the app computed from your birth details — it is not a forecast.
Your birth details stay on your phone
The place you were born is searched from a list built into the app. Your birthplace, your birth time and your date of birth are not sent anywhere. The built-in city list is a seed rather than a complete gazetteer, so villages and many smaller towns are not in it yet; the nearest listed city is close enough for a chart in almost every case, because what the calculation needs from a place is its coordinates and its time zone.
The full detail is in the privacy policy.
How to read the chart
The chart is drawn in the North Indian style: a diamond of twelve cells, with the first house at the top centre and the rest running anticlockwise from it. The houses stay where they are and the rāśi numbers move — that is the opposite of the South Indian style, where the signs are fixed and the houses move, and it is why the same chart looks different in the two conventions.
Graha names are given in Sanskrit throughout, in the script of the language you are using the app in, with a legend under the chart. Rāhu and Ketu are the two lunar nodes — the points where the Moon's path crosses the Sun's — and they are always exactly opposite each other, which is why they sit in facing cells.
What the app does not do
- It does not predict events.
- It does not give medical, financial or legal advice, and it is not a substitute for anyone who does.
- It does not write anything about you with a language model, at any point.
- It does not send your birth details to a server.
Questions about a chart
If a chart here disagrees with one you trust, the difference is almost always the ayanamsa or the house system, and both are stated above. If you think something is genuinely wrong, write to hello@infoash.de with your birth date, time and place and what you expected to see — that is a bug report we can act on, and we would rather have it.