Which years were hardest for you?
Give it your birth date and it will name the hardest stretches of your life so far, with dates. Nothing about your life is looked up. Then tell it how it did.
The date is enough. A birth time sharpens it and is read as IST.
A claim that can be wrong
Almost every reading you have been given was written so that it could not fail. It described you in terms broad enough that you would nod, and it made its promises about a future nobody can check yet. This one runs the other way. It names stretches of your life that have already happened, with start and end dates, and then asks you whether it got them right. If it did not, you have learned something real about the method in under a minute, and it cost you nothing.
That is also why it leads with periods outside 2020 to 2022. Nearly everyone alive can point at a hard stretch in those years, so a hit there tells you nothing about your chart. The windows that mean something are the ones history cannot explain for you.
How the periods are dated
Vedic astrology reads a life as a sequence of planetary periods called Vimshottari dashas. A long period, the mahadasha, runs for years and is ruled by one planet. Inside it sit shorter sub-periods, each ruled by another. What the tradition actually judges is the relationship between those two rulers: a sub-period ruler sitting six, eight or twelve signs from the main one is the classic signature of a demanding stretch, and one, five or nine from it the signature of a supported one.
On top of that the tool weighs whether each ruler helps or hinders for your particular rising sign, the condition of each planet by sign, whether it is close enough to the Sun to be dimmed, and which house it occupies. The stretches that score hardest across all of that are the ones you are shown. Your own periods are dated from your Moon's exact position at birth, which is why a date alone is enough to run it.
Hard is not the same as bad
The tool measures load, not misfortune. A demanding period is one that asked more of you than the ones on either side of it, and people routinely name exactly those years as the ones they are proudest of. The year a business started. The job that was too big and made them. A stretch they would not want to repeat and would not undo. If a window lands and your first thought is that it was also one of the best things that happened to you, the tool is not contradicting you. That is what it is describing.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can a birth date know which years were hard?
It cannot know your life. What it can do is date the periods your chart was running. Vedic astrology divides a life into Vimshottari periods, each ruled by a planet, and the relationship between the ruling planet of a long period and the ruling planet of the sub-period inside it is what decides whether a stretch reads as demanding or supported. This tool scores every sub-period you have already lived and shows you the hardest few, with dates. Whether they match is for you to say, which is the entire point of asking.
What does the tool actually compute?
For each sub-period since you turned sixteen, it scores the two ruling planets against each other: how far apart they sit, whether each one helps or hinders for your rising sign, the condition of each by sign and by closeness to the Sun, and where each one falls from your ascendant. The hardest scoring stretches are the ones shown. No transit is used and nothing about you is looked up.
Why does it skip 2020 to 2022?
It does not skip them, but it puts them last. A window that overlaps the pandemic is a bad test, because almost everyone alive had a hard stretch in it, so a hit there proves nothing about your chart. The tool leads with periods that history cannot have answered for you. A claim you cannot fail is not a check.
Do I need my birth time?
No. Birth time sharpens it, because with a time the periods are read from your rising sign rather than from your Moon, but the dates themselves come from your Moon's position and that only needs the date. If you leave the time blank the tool says so on the result rather than quietly giving you a less precise answer at the same confidence.
What if the years it names are wrong?
Then the method has your chart wrong, and that is worth knowing before you pay for anything. That is why the tool asks. Most astrology is written so that no answer can ever be wrong; this one is dated and specific enough to fail, and it is meant to.
Is a hard year a bad year?
No, and the two get confused constantly. A demanding period is one that took a lot out of you. Plenty of people name exactly those years as the ones they are proudest of: the start of something, a hard job that made them, a stretch they would not repeat and would not undo. The tool measures load, not misfortune.