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Ashtakavarga shows the strength of each sign in your chart as Bindu points, in both Sarvashtakavarga and Bhinnashtakavarga views. It uses the same calculation as your birth chart.
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Ashtakavarga
Ashtakavarga is a classical scoring method that shows how strongly each sign of your chart supports each planet. It turns the birth chart into a grid of points, so you can see at a glance which signs are friendly ground for Saturn, Jupiter or the Moon, and how a transit through those signs is likely to feel.
Parashara describes eight reference points: the seven visible planets and the Ascendant. From each of them, a planet gives a benefic point, called a Bindu, to certain houses counted from that reference. Adding the points from all eight references gives the Bhinnashtakavarga of that planet, a row of twelve numbers between zero and eight. A sign with five or more points is supportive ground for that planet; a sign with three or fewer is weak ground.
When the rows of the seven planets are added sign by sign, you get the Sarvashtakavarga, a single number for each sign. The total across the twelve signs is always 337. An average sign holds about 28 points. Signs above 28 tend to bring results with less struggle, while signs well below 28 ask for more effort in the matters of that house.
When Saturn moves into a sign where its own row shows five or six points, even a feared transit such as Sade Sati often passes with discipline rather than loss. When it moves into a sign with two points, the same transit is felt more sharply. Jupiter crossing a sign with many points brings its gifts more fully. This is why two people with the same Moon sign can have very different experiences of the same transit.
Each sign is split into eight parts of 3 degrees 45 minutes, called Kakshyas, ruled in turn by Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, the Moon and the Ascendant. A transiting planet gives good results while it passes a Kakshya whose lord contributed a point to that sign. This lets you narrow a long transit down to the weeks that matter most.
Ashtakavarga is a support for judgement, not a replacement for it. Read it alongside the Dasha period, the strength of the house lords and the aspects in the chart. A strong grid during a hard Dasha softens the difficulty; a weak grid during a good Dasha can delay results without denying them.
A Bindu is one benefic point that a planet receives in a sign from one of the eight reference points.
The number of points each planet can give is fixed by the classical tables, so the grand total never changes.
In the Sarvashtakavarga, anything above 28 is supportive. In a single planet's row, five or more is good.
Parashara's system uses the seven planets and the Ascendant. Rahu and Ketu are judged separately.
It refines timing within a transit, especially through the Kakshya divisions, but the Dasha sets the broad period.
Saturn may be passing signs where its own row holds many points.
Yes. The Ascendant is one of the eight references, and it changes about every two hours.
A reduction process applied before using the grid for longevity and some predictions. Everyday transit reading uses the raw points.
It is weak ground for that planet, so matters there need more care. It is not a prediction of harm.
Classical advice is that the eleventh should exceed the tenth, the tenth the ninth, and the twelfth should be lower than the eleventh.
It is mainly used for one chart. For couples, matching and the overlay of charts are better tools.
Open your birth chart and choose the Ashtakavarga tab to see every planet's row and the combined totals.