Hora (D2) chart: which luminary holds each planet

Last updated 25 October 2026

Enter your birth details to place every planet in the Sun’s or the Moon’s hora and draw the D2 next to your birth chart. Below the calculator: the Parashari rule it follows, what an astrologer reads from the hora chart about wealth, and the limits of a chart that has only two signs.

How the hora is assigned

The D2 is the simplest division in the Parashari scheme. Each 30° sign is cut into two halves of 15°, and each half is a hora belonging to one of the two luminaries. In an odd sign (Mesh, Mithun, Simha and so on) the first half is the Sun’s hora and the second the Moon’s; in an even sign the order is reversed. The Sun’s horas are placed in Singh, the sign the Sun rules, and the Moon’s in Kark. That is the rule set out in Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, and it is the one this calculator applies.

Enter the date, time and UTC offset, and choose a city or type latitude and longitude if you want the D2 lagna too. The calculator computes the sidereal (Lahiri) positions, draws the D2 next to the birth chart, and lists for each planet its birth-chart sign and degree, which half of the sign it is in, and whose hora that is. Look at the table below and you will notice that the hora only ever changes at the 15° point of a sign: from 15° of an odd sign through to 15° of the following even sign, the luminary stays the same. A planet close to that midpoint gets a note, since a slightly different time could put it in the other hora.

What an astrologer looks for in the hora chart

Parashara lists the hora as the division for wealth, and that is how most practitioners use it: as a check on how a person earns, keeps and spends, not as a forecast of a bank balance. Many astrologers describe the Sun’s hora as resources won through one’s own effort, position and visibility, and the Moon’s hora as resources that are gathered, inherited, saved or come through other people and family.

A commonly quoted classical rule adds that the Sun, Mars and Jupiter give their results best in the Sun’s hora, the Moon, Venus and Saturn in the Moon’s hora, and Mercury in either. So an astrologer reading your D2 will often ask which planets are in their comfortable hora and which are not, and then connect that to the birth chart: the second and eleventh houses and their lords, Jupiter as the natural indicator of wealth, any combinations in the D1 that tradition calls dhana yogas, and the dasha now running. If the D1 says little about money, the D2 does not add a promise of its own.

The D2 lagna is read too, but cautiously. With only two possible signs, it splits everyone born on a day into two groups of roughly equal size, which makes it a broad indicator at best. It is not the same thing as the special point astrologers call the hora lagna, which is a separate calculation based on the time elapsed since sunrise.

Where the hora chart runs out

The D2 compresses the whole zodiac into two signs, and that is both its appeal and its limit. Ordinary house analysis hardly applies when the chart has two occupied signs. Aspects between planets mean little when most of them share a sign. And the result for a planet near 15° can flip on a small change of time, which matters more here because the verdict is binary.

Partly for these reasons, some astrologers prefer other hora schemes that place planets across all twelve signs, while others skip the D2 and judge wealth from the birth chart, the navamsa and the D10 instead. If your astrologer reads a hora chart, it is fair to ask which version, because two hora charts for the same birth can disagree completely. And whatever the chart suggests, money decisions belong with your own figures and a qualified financial adviser.

Questions to ask your astrologer about your hora chart

• Are you using the Parashari hora or another scheme, and why that one?
• Which of my planets sit in the hora tradition considers comfortable for them, and which do not?
• How does what you see in the D2 compare with my second and eleventh houses in the birth chart?
• Is any planet so close to the 15° line that my birth time could move it to the other hora?
• Which part of what you are telling me comes from the D2 and which from the dasha?

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