Jyotish is the meeting point of mathematics and metaphysics.

It draws from astronomy, psychology, mythology, and philosophy, yet it rests first on numerical determination. Before meaning can be drawn, something must be measured. Before interpretation can occur, something must be computed.
 

The name Kāla itself clarifies this orientation. Kāla (काल) is commonly translated as time, yet in Sanskrit usage it refers to a far wider field.

Kāla denotes time as duration, time as sequence, and time as the ordering principle through which events become intelligible. It also carries spatial implication, since time in classical Indian thought never exists apart from location, direction, and movement. Kāla therefore functions as space–time as the living medium through which experience unfolds.
 

Jyotish is the study of kāla as it relates to consciousness. It examines how space–time conditions perception, action, memory, development, and meaning. Charts do not describe personalities. They describe how consciousness encounters time through form.
 

My work approaches Jyotish from this understanding. What can be seen or articulated depends entirely on what has been calculated. Certain dimensions of the tradition cannot be accessed through symbolic sensitivity alone. They require explicit computation.
 

Lajjitādi Avasthās are central in this regard. They describe the operative condition of grahas: how they function, how effectively they express, and how reliably they can carry their significations within time. These states shape psychological tone, relational patterns, and the lived quality of experience. They are determined conditions. They are not inferred qualities.
 

Most contemporary astrology software does not compute Lajjitādi Avasthās. In some cases they are absent; in others they appear in forms that cannot be worked with meaningfully. This omission limits how deeply classical Jyotish can be applied, particularly where psychological and developmental clarity is sought.
 

Kala is the software I use because it computes these structures directly and coherently. The calculations remain visible, the logic remains consistent, and the results can be engaged as a working basis for interpretation. This allows Lajjitādi Avasthās to be approached as functional states within space–time rather than as abstract references.
 

More broadly, Kala supports careful work with timing, strength, and functional capacity without flattening complexity for convenience. This matters when Jyotish is used as a method for studying experience and consciousness as they move through kāla.
 

Kala forms part of the working basis of my practice. When I write about avasthās, bhava functioning, or the inner state of a graha, the calculations informing those observations come from here.
 

For those engaging Jyotish with seriousness, software choice determines what aspects of space–time and consciousness can be examined at all.