Astrology

Ishta Devta — Personal Deity

Computes Ishta Devta (personal deity) from the 12th house lord of the Navamsa (D9) chart per Jaimini-tradition rules. Returns the ruling planet, associated deity, and D9 positions. Request JSON follows BirthInput: name (optional, default Chart), date (YYYY-MM-DD), time (HH:MM, required), either location or latitude/longitude/timezone, optional ayanamsa (lahiri|raman|kp|tropical).

post/v1/astro/ishta-devta

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.asterwise.com
  • URL: https://api.asterwise.com/v1/astro/ishta-devta
  • Auth: HTTP bearer

Request body

locationstring nullable

City name to resolve to lat/lon/tz automatically. Example: 'Mumbai' or 'New Delhi, India'. If provided, latitude, longitude and timezone are not required.

namestring

Person name associated with the birth record

datestring required

Birth date in YYYY-MM-DD format

timestring required

Birth time in HH:MM 24-hour format. Required: this endpoint has no sunrise fallback.

latitudenumber nullable

Latitude. Required if location not provided.

longitudenumber nullable

Longitude. Required if location not provided.

timezonestring nullable

IANA timezone. Required if location not provided (unless utc_offset is given). For dates before the zone adopted a standard time, the birthplace's local mean time (longitude / 15 hours) is used.

utc_offsetstring nullable

Optional explicit UTC offset of the birth time, as ±HH:MM or ±HH:MM:SS (e.g. '+04:51:31' for Bombay mean time). Overrides the offset timezone would give. Use it when the birth record states the offset, or for historical local times the IANA database cannot represent.

ayanamsa'lahiri' | 'raman' | 'kp' | 'tropical'

Sidereal ayanamsa mode used in calculations

Example request

{
  "ayanamsa": "lahiri",
  "date": "1985-11-12",
  "latitude": 19.055,
  "location": "Mumbai",
  "longitude": 72.8692,
  "name": "Arjun Mehta",
  "time": "06:45",
  "timezone": "Asia/Kolkata"
}

Response

Successful Response

successboolean

True if the request succeeded

messagestring

Human-readable status message

Changes

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