/api/astro/lal-kitab/horoscope/1 creditLal Kitab chart layout
The Lal Kitab chart as twelve sign-slots, ready to draw. The same arrangement /api/astro/lal-kitab/chart/ returns, turned inside out: that endpoint is a list of grahas each carrying its house, this one is a list of the twelve houses each carrying its occupants, their two-letter forms and their degrees. `planet_degree` is the position WITHIN the sign, which is what a chart is drawn from - a graha at 118.395 absolute sits at 28.395 of Cancer. IN LAL KITAB THE HOUSES ARE FIXED TO THE SIGNS: house 1 is always Aries, through to house 12 always Pisces, for every chart. So `sign` and `house` are the same number. The ascendant is reported but does not move the houses, and these will therefore disagree with /api/astro/chart/ for almost every native. That is the system, not an error.
https://api.occultapi.com/api/astro/lal-kitab/horoscope/Authentication
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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. |
| latitude | number (double) | required | 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. min -90 · max 90 |
| longitude | number (double) | required | 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. min -180 · max 180 |
| ayanamsa | string | optional | Ayanamsa for the underlying sidereal positions. Lal Kitab itself is house-based and does not prescribe one; this is passed through to the position engine. |
| timezone_as_float | number (double) | optional | 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 |
Example request
This example is not yet verified
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curl -X POST https://api.occultapi.com/api/astro/lal-kitab/horoscope/ \
-H "X-API-Key: $OCCULT_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"date_time":"2026-09-01 06:00:00","latitude":26.9124,"longitude":75.7873,"timezone_as_float":5.5}'Response
A verified example response is not available for this endpoint yet. The request shape above is generated from the API definition and is accurate; we publish response samples only once we have proven them against a live call.
Errors
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