Methodology
What we don’t read, and why
Some classical methods are left out of every reading on SahiKundli, by design. This is one of the few places where we choose not to follow the tradition.
The classical literature is vast, and parts of it set out methods for calculating life-span, the timing of serious illness, and comparable outcomes, including for a person’s family. We do not publish any of it. Not in reports, not in the interpretive pages, not anywhere a reader can reach. This is a categorical exclusion, not a matter of case-by-case editorial judgement.
The reason is straightforward. We do not think a birth chart should be treated as a source for these questions, and we do not think this kind of prediction helps the people who receive it. It works on fear, and fear is precisely the thing we have tried to design out of this platform. A reading should leave you with something useful to think about, not a date to dread.
So our interpretations stay with the parts of the tradition that support reflection: character and temperament, the strengths and tensions in a chart, the texture of different life periods, and how a person might work with them. Where a classical text turns toward life-span or grave outcomes, we stop reading there. The same holds for related material that is often surrounded by fear, such as periods like Sade Sati, or the eighth house, which we read through their genuine classical themes of depth, transition, and inherited circumstance, rather than as warnings.
If you have come to a reading carrying a real worry about your health or someone else’s, we would gently say that an astrology report is not the right place to take it. A doctor, or a person you trust, is. We mention this plainly rather than leaving the omission unexplained, because being honest about what this tool is for, and what it is not, is part of how we think it should be built.
This is a permanent choice and it is built into the system, not left to the discretion of whoever writes a given page. The sources that deal primarily with these subjects are excluded at the point where our interpretations draw on the classical texts, so that the boundary holds the same way for every reading, every time.