Crystals

Natal Chart Crystal Recommendations

Recommend crystals from the natal chart's functional benefics, using the same rule as POST /v1/astro/gemstones (BPHS Ch.34 lordship, whole-sign from the lagna). Recommended: the lagna lord (always auspicious) = Life Stone (+5), the Yogakaraka = supreme benefic (+5), the 9th lord = Fortune Stone (+4), the 5th lord = Lucky Stone (+3). A 5th/9th lord that also owns a Dusthana (6, 8, 12) is still recommended, with that Dusthana named in warnings[]. Contraindicated (natal_context.contraindicated_lords, never returned): Dusthana lords that own no Trikona, and debilitated or combust planets. Kendra-only and 2nd/3rd/11th lords are neither recommended nor contraindicated. Only crystals with Vedic assignments (Navaratna or Uparatna) are returned. Dangerous gem combinations are flagged in warnings[].

post/v1/crystals/recommend/natal

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.asterwise.com
  • URL: https://api.asterwise.com/v1/crystals/recommend/natal
  • 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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