The Navamsa Chart or D9 is considered extremely important while analyzing birth charts or horoscopes.

It is often said that the inner strength of planets should be judged from D9 and D1 (birth chart). It is also
the chart which is used to judge if a planet has acquired Vargottam status or not.
Vargottam is a condition when a planet occupies the same Rashi or Signin both the birth chart (D1)
as well as the Navamsa Chart (D9). Vargottam planets are considered very powerful.

Have you ever wondered why is it called D9? Or have you ever wondered how complicated websites /
software construct the Navamsa Chart. If you think it is too difficult, I am going to make it very simple for
you today. This will help you in quickly making a D9 chart in the absence of any computer program or
software.

Before we begin understanding how to make the D9 chart, it is very essential that we understand
classifications of the 12 signs or rashis of the zodiac. But before that, the 12 rashis are:

RASHI NUMBER ENGLISH NAME HINDI NAME

1 Aries Mesh
2 Taurus Vrishabh
3 Gemini Mithun
4 Cancer Kark
5 Leo Singh
6 Virgo Kanya
7 Libra Tula
8 Scorpio Vrishchik
9 Sagittarius Dhanu
10 Capricorn Makar
11 Aquarius Kumbh
12 Pisces Meen

We move on to understand two different systems of classification of signs:

CLASSIFICATION 1:

 Moveable Signs of Char Rashis

 Fixed Signs or Sthir Rashis
 Dual Signs or Dwiswabhav Rashis

1 Aries 2 Taurus 3 Gemini

4 Cancer 5 Leo 6 Virgo
7 Libra 8 Scorpio 9 Sagittarius
10 Capricorn 11 Aquarius 12 Pisces

MOVEABLE FIXED DUAL

CLASSIFICATION 2:

 Fire Signs
 Earthy Signs
 Airy Signs
 Watery Signs

1 Aries 5 Leo 9 Sagittarius FIRE

2 Taurus 6 Virgo 10 Capricorn EARTH
3 Gemini 7 Libra 11 Aquarius AIR
4 Cancer 8 Scorpio 12 Pisces WATER

Now we all answer why is it called Navamsa or D9.

Navamsa = Nav + amsa

Nav means 9

Amsa means Division

Hence, Navamsa or D9 chart is made by dividing each house of the birth chart into 9 equal divisions.

We all know that the zodiac is made up of 360 degrees and there are 12 houses in the birth chart.

Thus, each house consists of 360 / 12 = 30 degrees.

And each 9th part of a house would be equal to 30 / 9 = 3 degrees & 20 minutes or simply 3°20’

PART DEGREE
RANGE
1 0 - 3°20’
2 3°20’ - 6°40’
3 6°40’ - 10°
4 10° - 13°20’
5 13°20’ - 16°40’
6 16°40’ - 20°
7 20° - 23°20’
8 23°20’ - 26°40’
9 26°40’ - 30°

We now have all tools that we need to learn how to construct the Navamsa Chart. Let us begin!

We will take the Birth Chart of Amitabh Bachchan as an example.

The degrees of various grahas are as follows:

Graha Sign Degree

Asc. 11 1°49'
Ketu 11 10°25'
Venus 6 15°11'
Sun 6 24°12'
Moon 7 10°18'
Mars 6 22°36'
Rahu 5 10°25'
Jupiter 4 00°32'
Saturn (R) 2 19°13'
Mercury (R) 6 23°39'

CALCULATION OF NAVAMSA OR D9 CHART:

STEP 1:

Note the rashi of the lagna or ascendant.

STEP 2:

Determine the type of sign of the lagna rashi from the following:

 Fire
 Earth
 Air
 Water

In Shri Amitabh Bachchan’s Chart, the lagna rashi is Aquarius (11).

STEP 3:

From the following table, determine the Moveable Sign or Char Rashi that is of the same element as the
Lagna Rashi is.

Note that each element has 3 signs and one among those is MANDATORILY a Moveable Sign.

In this case, the element is AIR and the moveable sign is Libra (7).

Step 4:

Note the degree of the lagna and see which part of the Navamsa Table it falls in. Note down the part
number.

In this case, Lagna Degree is 1°49’ and the associated part number is 1. This is because 0° < 1°49’ < 3°20’

Step 5:

We now have two numbers:

  Step 3: Number 7
 Step 4: Number 1

Add both the numbers we got above.

If the sum <= 12, the Navamsa Rashi will be the Sum of Both Numbers minus 1.

If the sum > 12, the Navamsa Rashi will be Sum of Both Numbers minus 12 minus 1.

Similarly, the above 5 steps are to be repeated for all 9 grahas. For the reference of the reader, it has
been simplified in the table below.

ASSOCIATED NAVAMSA
D1 MOVEABLE PART NAVSAMA
PLANET RASHI ELEMENT SIGN DEGREE NUMBER RASHI
ASC 11 AIR 7 1°49' 1 7
KETU 11 AIR 7 10°25' 4 10
VENUS 6 EARTH 10 15°11' 5 2
SUN 6 EARTH 10 24°12' 8 5
MOON 7 AIR 7 10°18' 4 10
MARS 6 EARTH 10 22°36' 7 4
RAHU 5 FIRE 1 10°25' 4 4
JUPITER 4 WATER 4 00°32' 1 4
SATRUN (R) 2 EARTH 10 19°13' 6 3
MERCURY (R) 6 EARTH 10 23°39' 8 5

The final Navamsa Chart is shown below: