Vedic astrology and music for daily life
RitamSage is a mobile app that reads your Vedic birth chart against the sky right now (where the Moon is, the Moon's phase, your birth star and the life period you are in) and gives you one clear level for the day, the reasons behind it, and the best windows to begin what matters. A rhythm, not a verdict.
Now in your cityThe sound of this hourThe hour’s raga, played in your browser. The app plays devotional songs and mantras for each part of your day.
The word
Ṛtam (ऋतम्) is the Vedic word for cosmic order: the true rhythm that keeps the sun rising, the Moon waxing and the seasons turning in their time. The Rig Veda names it alongside satya, truth, as something that holds the world together. RitamSage is built on a simple idea from that tradition: your days have a rhythm too, and it is easier to live well when you can hear it.
ऋतं च सत्यं चाभीद्धात्तपसोऽध्यजायत
Order (ṛtam) and truth (satya) were born of kindled fervour.
Rig Veda 10.190.1
In simple words: at the very start, the hymn says, there was heat (tapas), the first spark of creation. From it came order and truth, before night and day, before the sea and the year. That first order is ṛtam, the rhythm RitamSage is named for.
A yearThe seasons turn
A monthThe Moon waxes and wanes
A dayThe sun rises and sets
“A rhythm, not a verdict.”
Why rhythm? Because a rhythm can be heard before it is understood. Music keeps time with the world, which is why the app’s mark is Tumburu, the celestial musician with his tanpura, and why every part of the day in RitamSage has its music, from devotional songs to mantras.
“Quiet days are not bad days. They are the rests in the music.”
The chart · how RitamSage reads you
Scroll slowly. This is today’s real sky over your city, computed in your browser this minute, built the way RitamSage builds yours.
01 / 07The sky
Every chart begins with one moment and one place: here, your city at this minute. Around that point we draw the whole sky as a circle: 360 degrees along the path the Sun walks in a year.
02 / 07Twelve signs (rashis)
Vedic astrology divides the circle into twelve signs, Aries to Pisces, measured against the stars themselves rather than the seasons. That is why your sign here can differ from the one in Western horoscopes: today the two are 24° apart.
03 / 07The Moon’s 27 stars (nakshatras)
Around the signs runs a finer ring of 27 stars, 13°20′ each, from Ashwini to Revati; the Moon passes through about one a day. Right now the Moon is in its star.
04 / 07Nine planets (grahas)
The Sun and Moon, the five planets you can see, and Rahu and Ketu (the two points where the Moon’s path crosses the Sun’s) drop into their signs for this minute: the Sun in its sign, the Moon in its sign.
Sun and Moon to the arc-minute; the other planets from mean orbital elements, within a fraction of a degree. Rahu’s place is its average path.
05 / 07Your chart (kundli)
The sign rising in the east, the rising sign, becomes the first house at the top, and the wheel turns into the North Indian chart RitamSage draws for you. Each planet settles into its house.
06 / 07The app
RitamSage reads your own birth chart against this moving sky (where the Moon is, the Moon’s phase, your birth star and the life period you are in) and gives you one level for the day, with the reasons. Charged, Steady, Balanced, Gentle or Rest.
The sky’s rhythm in your city today: …The sky’s rhythm for a place. Your own rhythm needs your birth chart.
07 / 07The sound
In the app, each part of the day has its music: devotional songs and mantras for your chosen deity. Here, a taste of the hour: in your city it is now this part of the day, and its raga is the raga of the hour, for the deity of the day.
The hour’s raga, played in your browser. The app plays devotional songs and mantras for each part of your day.
Live · computed in your browser now
Today’s Hindu almanac (Panchang) and the shape of the day, worked out for the place and the minute, with a sample raga for this hour. The app reads the day for your exact place and your own chart, and plays devotional songs and mantras for it.
The app
RitamSage reads your birth chart against today's sky and tells you, in plain words, what kind of day it is and when to begin.
Today
Each morning RitamSage reads your birth chart against the sky as it is now: where the Moon is in your chart, the Moon’s phase, today’s star, the life period you are in and the almanac (panchang) for the place you are in. It brings these together into one level for the day: Charged, Steady, Balanced, Gentle or Rest.
Home-screen widget
The RitamSage widget sits on your Android home screen and shows today’s level the way your phone shows battery or signal: a quick glance, no app to open. It updates as the day turns, so you can see when the Moon moves into a new star or when a better hour is coming.
Music
Sound of the hourMatched to your day and the hour
The hour’s raga, played in your browser. The app plays devotional songs and mantras for each part of your day.
Muhurat Finder
Find a good window to begin something that matters. For naming a baby, a housewarming, bhoomi puja, ear piercing, a new business, travel, a puja and more.
Find a muhuratYour star
Birth chart
Your birth chart (kundli): the main chart, marriage, career, the Moon chart and the sky now, North or South Indian style.
Life periods
This moment
Practices
Listen to today's song, learn one card, reflect, say a spoken intention or pause. One is enough for the day to count.
Knowledge deck
The planets, the signs and the 27 birth stars: what each is, its deity and symbol, and how it shows in your own chart.
What's new
Fresh screens from the current build.
Life roles
Live
A line for today
Live
Birth chart
Live
Home-screen widget
Live
The deity of the day
Live
Sage
Beta
The atlases
Every planet, sign and star you just watched fall into place, with its Sanskrit name, its rulers and what it means in a chart.
Nine planets (grahas)
The Sun and Moon, five visible planets and the two lunar nodes, Rahu and Ketu: the nine that seize the mind.
Journal
Plain-English essays on the ideas behind RitamSage.
The Vedic word for the order that keeps the world turning, and why we named an app after it.
Read
How RitamSage reads one level for your day from your chart and the sky, and why it is not a prediction.
Read
The nine grahas, why they are called “seizers”, and how they act through signs, houses, nakshatras and dashas.
ReadVedic only. RitamSage measures the signs against the stars (the sidereal zodiac), and uses the Moon's 27 stars (nakshatras), the traditional life periods (Vimshottari dasha) and the Hindu almanac (panchang). Your Moon sign here may differ from the sun sign you know from Western horoscopes, because the two zodiacs are about 24° apart.
No. It reads the quality of a day, much as a farmer reads the weather, and suggests how to meet it. A Charged day is a good day to start things; a Rest day is a good day to slow down. What you do with the day is yours.
The rising sign changes roughly every two hours and the Moon moves about 13° a day, so a few minutes can change your houses and sometimes the quarter of your birth star. If you do not know your exact time, an approximate one still gives a useful Moon-based reading.
No. RitamSage is for reflection and timing in the traditional sense. It is not medical, legal or financial advice, and it should never replace a doctor, lawyer or adviser.
RitamSage is coming to Google Play for Android, available worldwide from the first day, in English. A testing group is open now; an iPhone version will follow later.
They are used to calculate your chart and your daily readings. The calculation service receives your birth data without your name. You can delete your account and data at any time from Profile → Account → Delete account.
Get the app
Live in step with the sky. The test is open worldwide, on Android. iOS later.
