The Muntha is a special moving point used in Varshaphal (Tajika annual horoscopy), the Vedic system of yearly charts cast for each birthday. At birth the Muntha sits exactly on your Janma Lagna (sidereal Ascendant); every birthday it advances one complete rashi, so it circles the whole zodiac in twelve years and returns to your Lagna at ages 12, 24, 36, 48 and so on. Because it moves with clockwork regularity, the Muntha acts like the hour-hand of your life's yearly clock — pointing at the house of your chart whose matters dominate the year.

The classical Tajika texts judge the Muntha by the house it occupies counted from the Lagna: it is highly auspicious in the 9th, 10th and 11th (fortune, career, gains), favourable in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th, and adverse in the 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 12th, where it advises caution with health, disputes, partnerships, risks and expenses. The Muntha lord — the ruler of the rashi the Muntha occupies — becomes one of the key office-bearers of the year, colouring how its results are delivered.

What this locator shows

• Your Muntha rashi and its house from the Lagna for the current birthday-to-birthday year
• The classical verdict of the placement, with a focused career reading and health reading
• Your Muntha lord and the flavour it gives the year
• The full 12-year Muntha round with every year's rashi, house, lord and verdict

In complete Varshaphal practice the Muntha is read together with the Varsha Kundali (solar return chart), the Muntha lord's placement in it, and the year's other office-bearers — so treat this as the foundation of your annual reading, enter your exact birth time and pick the city from the dropdown, and explore the full year chart with a qualified astrologer.