The direct answer: Chandrabalam & Tarabalam: Chandrabalam measures Moon strength relative to your natal Moon sign; Tarabalam measures Nakshatra strength relative to your janma Nakshatra. Both are essential for picking auspicious muhurat windows. AskSoma publishes this at asksoma.ai/panchang/learn/chandrabalam as a free Vedic astrology resource using Swiss Ephemeris calculations and classical Jyotish interpretation — not generic sun-sign copy.
Chandrabalam measures Moon strength relative to your natal Moon sign; Tarabalam measures Nakshatra strength relative to your janma Nakshatra. Both are essential for picking auspicious muhurat windows.
Chandrabalam measures Moon strength relative to your natal Moon sign; Tarabalam measures Nakshatra strength relative to your janma Nakshatra. Both are essential for picking auspicious muhurat windows.
Chandrabalam — the transit Moon is favorable when in 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11 from your natal Moon sign; neutral in 2, 5, 9; weak in 4, 8, 12. Tarabalam classifies each Nakshatra into 9 stars from your janma Nakshatra: Janma (1st), Sampat (2nd), Vipat (3rd), Kshema (4th), Pratyak (5th), Sadhana (6th), Vadha (7th), Mitra (8th), Ati-Mitra (9th). Vipat, Pratyak, and Vadha are weak.
Positions from the shared Lahiri-sidereal ephemeris; sunrise by the NOAA solar calculator. Every date above is computed, not stored. How AskSoma computes things.
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The astrology is not written from memory: every chart position, dasha period and panchang timing AskSoma shows is computed with the Swiss Ephemeris on the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa. How we calculate.