libaditya 0.2.3

Astrological calculation library for Adityas

README

libaditya is an astrological calculation library meant to be easily understood in terms of what calculations are performed and how they are done. it includes a sample program called pyphemeris.

pyphemeris is meant to serve as an easily readable documentation on how the library works. Each function in libaditya itself is meant to return the requested data in a way that can then be presented in some way. Built into most libaditya classes are functions to represent themselves as text through repr (repr) and print, i.e., through __str__. pyphemeris makes use of these in order to print the requested data to stdout.

Table of Contents

• Dependencies
• Installation
• Usage
• Configuration
• Options

Dependencies

python, pyswisseph, python-prettytable

written with python 3.13

Installtion

git clone https://gitlab.com/j0sh4rp3/libaditya

if using uv then:

uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install -e .

Usage

then you can run

uv run pyphemeris/pyphemeris.py

This will print a chart for right now at the time and place specified in pyphemeris/defaults.py. You can change any of the defaults in that file, and then most options have a flag, some of which are toggles. eventually, there will be documentation for the options ands for what exactly each does. what it says may not be 100% accurate at the moment

or you can go into the Python repl using python

then

>>> from libaditya import *
>>> dir()
['Chart', 'Chiron', 'Circle', 'Cusp', 'Cusps', 'Earth', 'EphContext', 'Jaimini', 'JulianDay', 'Jupiter', 'Ketu', 'Location', 'Longitude', 'Mars', 'Mercury', 'Moon', 'Nakshatra', 'Nakshatras', 'Names', 'Neptune', 'Panchanga', 'Planet', 'Planets', 'Pluto', 'PrettyTable', 'Rahu', 'Rashi', 'Saturn', 'Self', 'Sign', 'Signs', 'Sun', 'Uranus', 'Varga', 'Venus', 'Yamakoti', '__annotations__', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__', 'base_path', 'calc', 'calc_current', 'calc_vdasha', 'calculate_vimshottari_dasha', 'cardinal_points', 'chart', 'charts', 'const', 'constants', 'context', 'current_vimshottari_dasha', 'cusps', 'get_next_lord', 'jaimini', 'julian_day', 'kala', 'length', 'location', 'longitude', 'lord', 'lunar_new_year', 'nakshatras', 'next_dasha_lords', 'objects', 'os', 'panchanga', 'pathlib', 'pd', 'planet_dict', 'planets', 'print_calculated_vimshottari_dasha', 'print_cardinal_points', 'print_functions', 'print_next_dasha_level', 'print_vimshottari_dasha', 'printf', 'read', 'replace', 'signs', 'swe', 'utils', 'vargas', 'vimshottari']

you can then use help(), e.g.:

>>> help(Chart)

and this will print info for Chart. I am trying to add documentation to each of these classes and function so that there is something helpuful printed. Basically all values have defaults, so you can also do this

>>> c=Chart()
>>> dir(c)

to see all of what Chart has and can do.

Most of this is meant to be self explanatory. The one thing I need to document better is how to input information. It is through EphContext, from libaditya.objects.context. It takes a JulianDay and a Location, then a bunch of options. All of these have defaults that should a chart for the current time more or less.

You can read a .chtk file into the repl like this:

>>> context = read.chtk_to_context(infile)

this returns an EphContext that you can then use to instantiated a Chart.

An EphContext also includes all the options for the chart.

Sidereal

Sidereal is possible, but here is how you must do it to get meaningful results: three options must be set:

sysflg=const.SID     # indicates sidereal ecliptic
ayanamsa=98          # this shouldnt be the default, but it is; Lahiri - 1; True Citra - 27; any
                     # swisseph ayanamsa
circle=Circle.ZODIAC # circle starts where the zodiac starts; with Circle.ADITYA, it
                     # doesnt start where the "zodiac" starts, i.e., ecltipic longitude doesn't line up to
                     # where the zodiac starts; if you dont change this, it might be
                     # confusing!

Read a .chtk file

this is the most useful for getting birth information without needing to do it manually

jhcontext = read.chtk_to_context("josh.cht")
jhchart = Chart(jdcontext)

to change any of the options, do like this:

jhsiderealcontext =
replace(jhcontext,sysflg=const.SID,ayanamsa=27,circle=Circle.ZODIAC,print_outer_planets=False)

this keeps everything else the same same, and changes what you specified to what you specified

jhdsidchart = Chart(jhsiderealcontext)

using tab completion is a good way to explore: type

>>> jhchart.

then tab twice, and you will see a list:

>>> jhchart.
jhchart.context     jhchart.get_varga(  jhchart.jaimini()   jhchart.rashi()  

a Chart is basically a collection of Vargas. The Rashi is the most important. You can access it through Chart.rashi()

if you assign is to a variable while in the repl:

>>> rashi=jhchart.rashi()

then you can use tab completion of, dir():

>>> dir(rashi)
['__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__firstlineno__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__getstate__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__module__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__static_attributes__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__weakref__', '_amsha', '_cusps', '_get_pada', '_planets', '_rashi_planets', '_signs', 'akriti_yogas', 'amsha', 'argala', 'bandhana_yogas', 'chart', 'context', 'cusps', 'dignities', 'draw_sun_by_sign_table', 'init_cusps', 'init_planets', 'jaimini_first_strength', 'lagna', 'mkheader', 'pada', 'padas', 'planets', 'signs', 'sysflgstr', 'upapada', 'varga_name', 'where_is']

everything surrounded by "__" is a special Python method. The ones without any underscores are the methods that "Rashi" has, things you can know about the rashi at hand.

e.g.,

>>> rashi.lagna()

self.sign()=8 viṣṇu
+--------+-------------------+----------------+
| Object | In Sign Longitude | Real Longitude |
+--------+-------------------+----------------+
| Cusp 1 |          12:59:45 |        192.996 |
+--------+-------------------+----------------+

The functions of the Classes themselves give the information in some way, and then there is a separate part that prints. Most of these have in-built printing methods due to Python, so that is why we can look at them to here. But to use them in a different application, we need to understand the data is returned, so we can read it and use it is whichever way we need at some time.

Dignity example

for example

>>> rashi.dignities()
['GF', 'N', 'GF', 'OH', 'EX', 'N', 'MT']

>>> help(rashi.dignities)

you will see a help screen where you can read

dignities() -> [<class 'str'>]
    return a list of dignities in the natural order
    Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn

so is returns a list of strings "EX", "DB", "GF", etc. for all the dignities of the planets in normal Vedic order. So that is the data; it is use to you how to find it.

in libaditya.printf (which you should be able to use as printf if you did from libaditya import *), there are print functions for some things.