/api/astro/astrocartography/parans/1 creditParan crossings
Latitudes where two planetary lines cross. A paran is a latitude at which two bodies are on angles at the same moment — the point where two astrocartography lines intersect. Because the crossing is a LATITUDE, its influence is conventionally read right around the globe at that latitude rather than only at the single crossing point, which is why the response leads with latitude_deg. Each crossing names both bodies, both line types and the coordinates where they meet. Solved numerically to a ten-thousandth of a degree. Pairs of meridian lines are excluded. MC and IC lines are true meridians, so they are parallel everywhere and never cross; any crossing reported for such a pair would be an artefact of the solver rather than a fact about the sky. Defaults to the ten classical planets. Adding the node and Chiron roughly doubles an already large pairwise result for two bodies most paran maps do not draw, so ask for them explicitly with the bodies field if you want them.
https://yogataraapi.prahlad.app/api/astro/astrocartography/parans/Authentication
Send your key in the X-API-Key header. Keys are server-side credentials — never put one in browser JavaScript or a mobile app.
X-API-Key: yt_live_a1b2c3d4_…
Content-Type: application/jsonRequest fields
| Field | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| date_time | string (date-time) | required | The moment to calculate for, ISO 8601. ALWAYS include an offset or a trailing Z - a value with no zone is read as Asia/Kolkata (UTC+05:30), not UTC, and can return the previous day's result with a 200. '2026-09-01T06:00:00Z' and '2026-09-01 06:00:00' are different instants and give different answers. |
| timezone_as_float | number (double) | required | UTC offset of the place, in hours, as a decimal. Example: 5.5 for India (UTC+05:30), -5 for New York in winter, 5.75 for Nepal. This is NOT validated against date_time - if the two disagree you get a successful response for the wrong moment, so derive both from the same source. Use the offset in force on that date, not today's: a summer birth in a country with daylight saving needs the summer offset. min -12 · max 14 |
| bodies | array | optional | Defaults to the ten classical planets. |
| keys | array | optional | Which calculations to return, as a list of names. See the key table for this endpoint; an unrecognised name rejects the whole request. One call costs one credit however many keys you ask for, so request everything you need at once rather than making several calls. |
| latitude | number (double) | optional | Latitude of the place, in decimal degrees. Positive is north, negative is south. Example: 26.9124 for Jaipur, 40.7128 for New York. Minutes and seconds are not accepted - convert first. |
| longitude | number (double) | optional | Longitude of the place, in decimal degrees. Positive is east, negative is west. Example: 75.7873 for Jaipur, -74.0060 for New York. Note the sign: a missing minus puts New York in China. |
Example request
curl -X POST https://yogataraapi.prahlad.app/api/astro/astrocartography/parans/ \
-H "X-API-Key: $OCCULT_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"date_time":"2026-09-01 06:00:00","timezone_as_float":5.5,"latitude":26.9124,"longitude":75.7873}'Response
{
"_truncated": true,
"_note": "Response shortened for the catalogue.",
"preview": "{\"data\": {\"julian_day_ut\": 2461284.52083333, \"bodies\": [\"sun\", \"moon\", \"mercury\", \"venus\", \"mars\", \"jupiter\", \"saturn\", \"uranus\", \"neptune\", \"pluto\"], \"count\": 180, \"parans\": [{\"object_a\": \"sun\", \"line_type_a\": \"MC\", \"object_b\": \"venus\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 74.30536, \"longitude_deg\": 172.540054}, {\"object_a\": \"saturn\", \"line_type_a\": \"AC\", \"object_b\": \"neptune\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 73.82927, \"longitude_deg\": -74.325752}, {\"object_a\": \"mercury\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"mars\", \"line_type_b\": \"IC\", \"latitude_deg\": 73.827994, \"longitude_deg\": -63.074563}, {\"object_a\": \"venus\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"uranus\", \"line_type_b\": \"IC\", \"latitude_deg\": 73.429681, \"longitude_deg\": -103.916252}, {\"object_a\": \"moon\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"mercury\", \"line_type_b\": \"MC\", \"latitude_deg\": 72.551108, \"longitude_deg\": 177.001921}, {\"object_a\": \"moon\", \"line_type_a\": \"AC\", \"object_b\": \"uranus\", \"line_type_b\": \"IC\", \"latitude_deg\": 71.562386, \"longitude_deg\": -103.916252}, {\"object_a\": \"sun\", \"line_type_a\": \"MC\", \"object_b\": \"moon\", \"line_type_b\": \"DC\", \"latitude_deg\": 71.460991, \"longitude_deg\": 172.540054}, {\"object_a\": \"sun\", \"line_type_a\": \"IC\", \"object_b\": \"jupiter\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 71.274466, \"longitude_deg\": -7.459946}, {\"object_a\": \"sun\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"saturn\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 70.783142, \"longitude_deg\": -72.588886}, {\"object_a\": \"mercury\", \"line_type_a\": \"IC\", \"object_b\": \"jupiter\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 70.598199, \"longitude_deg\": -2.998079}, {\"object_a\": \"mars\", \"line_type_a\": \"IC\", \"object_b\": \"jupiter\", \"line_type_b\": \"DC\", \"latitude_deg\": 69.985034, \"longitude_deg\": -63.074563}, {\"object_a\": \"sun\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"neptune\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 69.630357, \"longitude_deg\": -74.204321}, {\"object_a\": \"mercury\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"saturn\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 68.401814, \"longitude_deg\": -71.565185}, {\"object_a\": \"venus\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"uranus\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 68.359811, \"longitude_deg\": -90.415345}, {\"object_a\": \"jupiter\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"saturn\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 67.964835, \"longitude_deg\": -71.400569}, {\"object_a\": \"mercury\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"jupiter\", \"line_type_b\": \"DC\", \"latitude_deg\": 67.674926, \"longitude_deg\": -72.370875}, {\"object_a\": \"jupiter\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"neptune\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 67.107801, \"longitude_deg\": -74.152063}, {\"object_a\": \"sun\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"uranus\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 66.705487, \"longitude_deg\": -77.553232}, {\"object_a\": \"jupiter\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"uranus\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 66.433354, \"longitude_deg\": -76.095239}, {\"object_a\": \"mercury\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"mars\", \"line_type_b\": \"DC\", \"latitude_deg\": 66.341843, \"longitude_deg\": -73.716745}, {\"object_a\": \"mars\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"neptune\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 66.312161, \"longitude_deg\": -74.137779}, {\"object_a\": \"mars\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"uranus\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 66.238766, \"longitude_deg\": -75.112727}, {\"object_a\": \"mars\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"jupiter\", \"line_type_b\": \"DC\", \"latitude_deg\": 66.071485, \"longitude_deg\": -77.06956}, {\"object_a\": \"uranus\", \"line_type_a\": \"AC\", \"object_b\": \"neptune\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 66.035413, \"longitude_deg\": -74.13302}, {\"object_a\": \"mercury\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"uranus\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 66.012577, \"longitude_deg\": -74.025788}, {\"object_a\": \"sun\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"mars\", \"line_type_b\": \"DC\", \"latitude_deg\": 65.954554, \"longitude_deg\": -78.278186}, {\"object_a\": \"mercury\", \"line_type_a\": \"DC\", \"object_b\": \"neptune\", \"line_type_b\": \"AC\", \"latitude_deg\": 65."
}Captured from a real call using the exact request above. Results sit under data.
Errors
Metering errors return { "error": "…", "message": "<code>", "is_error": true }. Show error to people and branch on message. See the error reference.