KP Advanced

Overview

KarmaWheel already supports the KP variant of natal charts (cusp sub-lord tables, KP cusp lines on the SI / NI charts). This view adds two further KP techniques that are essential for KP horary practice:

Ruling Planets at any moment — the seven-planet hierarchy that KP uses for short-term timing and judgment
KP Horary 1-249 — the number-based Prashna chart

How to find it

Features menu → 🪐 KP Advanced. You'll see two tabs at the top: Ruling Planets (now) and Horary 1-249.

Ruling Planets

In KP, the "Ruling Planets" at any chosen moment are a hierarchy of seven significators, ranked from finest-grained to coarsest:

Rank	Role
1	Lagna sub-lord
2	Moon sub-lord
3	Lagna nakshatra-lord
4	Moon nakshatra-lord
5	Lagna sign-lord
6	Moon sign-lord
7	Day lord (vara)

By default, the panel computes Ruling Planets for the present moment using your birth-data location (you can think of it as "who is ruling, right now, where I am").

How to use them.

For horary judgment. When a question is asked, the answer significators must be among the Ruling Planets at the moment of question. This is the central KP horary rule.
For muhurta. Choose a moment whose RPs match the purpose of the action. E.g. for a Venus matter, time the action to a moment whose lower-rank RPs include Venus.
For transit-event timing. Track the same person's RPs across significant events; you'll see the same planets recurring.

KP Horary 1-249

In KP horary the questioner picks a number between 1 and 249 (some versions go to 360; KP uses 249). Each number maps to a specific ascendant cusp longitude. The horary chart is then cast for the moment of question with that ascendant.

KarmaWheel's panel:

Asks for a number 1-249 (let intuition guide you)
Computes the corresponding ascendant longitude using the standard KP sub-divisions table (243 sub-portions of unequal width based on Vimshottari proportions)
Returns: ascendant degree, sign, nakshatra, sign-lord, star-lord, sub-lord

How to use the horary chart.

In KP horary, the most important factor is the sub-lord of the relevant cusp:

For "will I marry?" — read the sub-lord of the 7th cusp
For "will I get the job?" — sub-lord of the 6th or 10th cusp
For "will I recover?" — sub-lord of the 1st (and the 6th)

If the sub-lord signifies the matter (i.e. is connected to the houses that bring it), the answer is yes. If it signifies negation (e.g. 12th house from the relevant house), the answer is no.

KP's full 4-step rule for significators (planet itself, occupant of the house, the house-lord, planets in stars of the above) is the classical extension; the chart returned by KarmaWheel gives you the data; the interpretation follows standard KP textbooks.

Limitations and notes

The 1-249 mapping uses the 243-portion Vimshottari sub-table. Some KP texts cite a 249-fold division which adds 6 transitional portions; KarmaWheel uses the more widespread 243-portion form with mod-243 mapping.
Ruling Planets are computed at birth location. In a strict Prashna setup, you'd use the querent's location at the moment of question. If those differ, set up a fresh chart for that location and read the RPs there.