KarmaWheel
The Dashboard — Six Slots, One Screen
KarmaWheel's Dashboard view is a desktop / large-tablet layout inspired by classical Vedic software like Parashara's Light. It puts six chart-related panels on screen simultaneously so you can see the whole chart at a glance — Rasi, Navamsa, current transits, dashas, planet list, and any sixth panel of your choosing — without scrolling.
This is the layout serious astrologers reach for. Here's how it works.
How to turn the dashboard on
The dashboard is available on screens 1024 px wide or wider (laptops, desktops, large tablets). On phones, the layout doesn't fit cleanly, so the dashboard control is hidden and the app uses the classic single-column scroll view.
To enable it on desktop:
- Click the dashboard icon in the topbar (between the language icon and the Subscribe star)
- Or open the hamburger drawer and click Toggle dashboard layout
Click again to turn it off and return to the single-column "classic" view.
KarmaWheel remembers your preference between sessions.
The six slots
When dashboard mode is on, the screen splits into 6 equal-sized slots in a 3-column × 2-row grid (or 2 × 3 on narrower screens). Each slot is a small card with its own chart, table, or feature. By default:
| Slot | Default content |
|---|---|
| A (top-left) | Rasi (D1) — your birth chart |
| B (top-center) | Navamsa (D9) — the most important divisional chart |
| C (top-right) | Current transits — live planetary positions today |
| D (bottom-left) | Vimshottari Dasha strip — colored timeline of your life-periods |
| E (bottom-center) | Planet list — full table of placements |
| F (bottom-right) | Configurable — defaults to a varga of your choice |
You can change what each slot shows by clicking the slot's small dropdown in its top-right corner. Available slot contents include:
- Rasi (D1)
- Any of the 25+ divisional vargas
- Live transits (with date scrubber)
- Bi-Wheel (natal + transit)
- Vimshottari Dasha strip with playback
- Planet list table
- Karakas (Jaimini)
- Aspects grid
- Friendships matrix (Panchadha)
- Shad Bala
- Ashtakavarga
- Yogas
- Readings card
- Sade Sati timeline
- Varshaphal
- Avastha
- Lucky Info
- Special Lagnas
- And more
Every slot is independently configurable. So you can set up:
- Rasi + Navamsa + Dasamsa + Saptamsa for a marriage-and-children layout
- Rasi + Bi-Wheel + Dasha strip + Sade Sati for a transit-and-timing layout
- Rasi + Aspects + Yogas + Readings for an interpretive layout
- Whatever combination suits how you read
Tap-to-zoom on any slot
Each slot is small (about 1/6 of the screen). Tap any chart inside a slot to zoom it to fullscreen — same chart, much larger. Tap again or hit Escape to return to the dashboard. This way you can hold the bird's-eye view and dive into a specific chart with one click.
The zoomed view supports the same planet/sign/nakshatra popovers as the regular chart-view — tap any glyph in zoom mode to read about it.
Transit slots and the date scrubber
The transit-related slots (Transits, Bi-Wheel, Dasha strip) all share a scrub date you can change with the date control at the top of the dashboard. Move the date forward or back, and every transit-related slot updates simultaneously. This is incredibly useful for:
- Seeing the chart at a future or past moment
- Watching transits play forward over weeks/months/years
- Combining bi-wheel with the dasha strip to spot dasha+transit combinations
The dasha strip itself has a playback feature — press play and the date moves forward automatically through your timeline.
Reading the dashboard
The dashboard is a visual scanning tool more than a sequential-reading tool. With six panels visible:
- Glance at the Rasi — what's the immediate impression?
- Compare with the Navamsa — does it confirm or modify what the Rasi says?
- Look at the current transits — what's the live planetary weather?
- Check the dasha strip — what's the active period? When does the next major shift come?
- Read the planet list — quick lookup of any specific placement
- Use the sixth slot — whatever you set it to (varga, yogas, readings, etc.)
In about 15 seconds you can have an entire impression of the chart that would take much longer to assemble in single-column scroll mode.
When to use dashboard vs. classic
Dashboard view is best for: - Experienced readers who want the bird's-eye view - Quickly comparing multiple charts side-by-side - Following live transits while looking at the natal - Teaching and demonstration (showing students multiple views at once)
Classic single-column is best for: - New users who want to focus on one section at a time - Phone use (dashboard auto-disables on phones anyway) - Long-form reading sessions where you want to scroll naturally - Print preview / PDF generation
The two modes are toggle-able any time. Most experienced users settle into dashboard mode for daily research and switch to classic for client readings or print-prep.