Free Horoscope is a diagram of the sky showing the relative positive positions of the planets and signs at a given moment. On the basis of Free Horoscope, predictions of future events in the person's life are made and the various traits of character are discovered. In India, we commonly find three kinds of diagrams, though as we shall see, a rectangular format is most often used. In Western countries, circular representation of Free Horoscope is standard.

     Free Horoscope diagram is prevalent. Each box represents one sign of the zodiac. The second box from the left on the top row represents Aries, and the signs move clockwise around the diagram. The eastern horizon is indicated by placing a diagonal line indicating the Lagna or Ascendant in the appropriate box. Free Horoscope in Eastern India is depicted differently. The basic diagram is constructed by the intersection of two vertical and two horizontal lines, the four corners of which are again divided by four diagonal lines.

     Free Horoscope in the Western type of horoscope places the eastern horizon or Ascendant on the left-hand side, while the topmost point depicts the Midheaven or Tenth House. The right-hand side represents the Descendant or Seventh house and the bottom the Nadir or Fourth house. One important difference between Western and Hindu astrology is that Western astrology defines a cusp as the beginning of a house division, while Hindu astrologers define it as the midpoint of a house. Free Horoscope of western astrologers have preferred to arbitrarily name the Sun's position at the equinox as 00 Aries.

     Free Horoscope analysis by most Hindu astrologers, like their western counterparts of an earlier era, erect a birth chart "from the ground up." Western student of the Hindu system, however, typically begin with a Free Horoscope which has already been cast in the western style. The procedure, then, is to convert the tropical longitudes of the Western chart into sidereal longitudes.

     Free Horoscope works quite well for most of the fundamentals of astrological interpretation. Hindu astrologers regard it as perfectly valid to interpret the Free Horoscope as if one sign (rashi) were equal to one house (bhava). This may be confused to those trained in Western astrology, where the houses are seldom equal. Nevertheless, it works. But Hindu astrologers also use Free Horoscope with unequal houses. In fact, there are as many methods of dividing the houses in Hindu astrology as there are in Western astrology. In this text we shall make use of a method called the bhava kundali or house chart.