The most common and prevalent way in the Hindu Vedic Astrology to forecast current and future is depicting the Kundali, that is widely used in Northern India. While in Southern India the format of chart is square, as talk about a chart then each chart comprises of 12 compartments and they are called 'Bhav,'Houses or 'Sthan, top most house is called as first house,all the rest of the houses are counted
in the direction that is first house. In every chart there are total 12 planets they are called 'grahas,according to ancient Vedic Astrology there are only Vedic Astrology or grahs are there, the planets that are recently discovered are not at all to be considered their names are Neptune ,Uranus and Pluto,


well it is good to consider all the 12 planets , the 12 planets are Sun -Ravi,Moon -Chandra,Mercury -Budha,Venus -Shukra,Mars -Mangal, Kuja, Kartikeya,Jupiter -Guru,Saturn -Shani,North Node -Rahu,South
Node -Ketu,Uranus -Harshal,Neptune -Neptune,Pluto - Pluto.

There are twelve Rashis named Aries-Mesha , Taurus -Vrushaba ,Gemini -Mithun,Cancer -Karka, Leo -Simha, Virgo-Kanya ,/ Libra -Tula ,Scorpio-Vrushchika ,/ Sagittarius- Dhanu,Capricorn -Makar, Aquarius - Kumbha and Pisces -Meena .All the positions of all the 12 planets are plotted in the chart at the time of the birth, he Janma Kundali or the Birth Chart is basically a diagrammatic representation of all the planets and their recpective positions at the time of the birth.