What People Actually Ask Their Birth Chart

Almost every astrology page on the internet answers a question of the form "what is X". Between 20 April and 25 August 2026, 983 people typed 2,797 messages of their own words into AstroMedha's chart chat, and fourteen of those messages asked what something is. That is half of one percent.

The other 2,783 are about the person typing. They want a date back, or a yes, or a decision made for them. Below is the full distribution of what they wanted, and the one correction that has to be applied before any of it counts as evidence.

One message in five was written by us, not by a user

AstroMedha's chat opens with a grid of tiles, each one a worry with a ready-made question attached. Tapping a tile writes that tile's exact wording into the message log as if the person had typed it. Group the log by message text without accounting for that, and the top result is our own copy, counted as demand.

To separate the two, every string literal of twenty characters or more was harvested out of the seven files that have ever produced a chat prompt, across all 237 versions of those files in the repository's history. That last part matters: the wording of the "test me" tile was rewritten on 21 August 2026, so a check against the current file alone would silently halve that tile's count at the date of the change. Code comments were stripped before harvesting, because the comments in those files quote real customer messages verbatim, and harvesting them would have deleted genuine questions from the corpus while pretending they were taps.

Twenty-two percent of everything logged as a user message was written by AstroMedha, not by a user. Any reading of this table that skips that line is measuring its own product.

The taps are still worth reading, on their own terms. A tile tap is not language, but it is a choice, and it says which worry a person arrives holding before anyone has asked them anything:

The remaining 118 taps are prompts generated from the reader's own chart, offered further down a page rather than on the opening grid.

Two things stand out. Taps and people are nearly one to one on every row, so a tile is something a person uses once, at the start, and then abandons in favour of typing. And "Test me, read my past" is second, which is the only tile that asks the product to prove itself before answering anything. People arrive sceptical and say so with a tap.

Almost nobody asks what a thing is

A message counts as purely definitional here if the answer would be identical for every reader on earth. To find them, all 2,797 messages were filtered down to those carrying no first-person word anywhere (no my, me, I, mera, mujhe, naku, ente) and opening with a concept question. That left 136 candidates, small enough to read one by one, which is what happened, because a regular expression cannot tell "what about 2028 n 2029" (a follow-up about the reader's own chart) from "what is grahan dosha" (a question about a word).

Fourteen survived the read. Here they are, complete, spelling as typed:

1. What is Shanti yantra and Jupiter yantra
2. What is kaal sarp Dosha and how to counter it
3. what is grahan dosha
4. What are all professions linked with the fifth house?
5. Which houses are associated with spiritual coaching, vastu, astrology, scientific logo designing, manifestation coaching, meditation, speaking as a speaker, life coach
6. What is dharmic foundation and dharmic marriage?
7. How to balance rahu ketu
8. how to do short surya namaskar
9. what kavachams to read or listen to create protective shields every day?
10. what about vishnu kavacham? or shiva kavacham?
11. What are the benefits of folloeing outfits as per the day of the week + power colours?
12. does mercury dasha hace any money windfall?
13. do people that get saturn in younger or adult or mid life have it harder than those who get it in 70s or 80s?
14. How to choose mobile number

Dasha means the sequence of planetary chapters a life is divided into.

Fourteen out of 2,797 is 0.50%.

Against that, 2,053 messages, 73.4% of the corpus, carry an explicit first-person marker: my, me, I, or the equivalent in Hindi, Telugu or Malayalam. The remaining 26% are almost entirely elliptical turns inside a conversation that is already about the person's own chart, so they need the birth data just as firmly, they simply do not repeat the word "my" in every sentence. "What about 2028 n 2029" is a question about one specific chart and has no answer without that chart.

A second pass over the same table, run separately with a different set of patterns, returned 2,783 messages, 985 people, 73.3% first-person and fourteen definitional. The two agree to within half a percent on every headline, and at least two of the fourteen ("what is grahan dosha" and "What is kaal sarp Dosha and how to counter it") are demonstrably the same message in both lists. Neither count was copied from the other.

What the answer has to be

Sorting these messages by subject hides the thing that actually separates them from published astrology writing, which is the kind of object the reader expects to get back.

Of the 2,796 free-typed messages that carry text (one is an image attachment), 1,952 contain a question marker, meaning a question mark or an interrogative word in English, Hindi or Hindi written in Latin letters. The other 844 have their own section further down. Sorting those 1,952 by the first shape they match:

Sixty percent of the questions want either a verdict or a calendar date. Both are harder to write than a definition, because both commit to something that can later turn out wrong, and a definition never can.

The verbatim record is blunter than the table. "when is job". "Shaadi kab hogi". "Will I pass the exam". "When my debt free possible". "Exactly when which year which month marriage will happen". "Job or business?? What suits best exact answer". One person listed seven futures and asked for a verdict on each: "Would I get promoted this year? Or next? Or willi move to startup? Or change team? Or change company? Or start my own? Or get laid off? Say yes or no for each". Nobody in this corpus asks what a planetary period is. They ask which month theirs turns.

The 503 in the last row are mostly compound: a person opening with four asks in one breath, where the first shape matched none of the six patterns cleanly. They are counted and shown rather than distributed into the rows above, because pushing them into a bucket would flatter the bucket.

Messages are short, and the long ones are a different product

58% of messages are under fifteen words. The median question is twelve words long, which is roughly "When will I get a job and will it be government or private".

The 147 messages over sixty words are a different behaviour. They carry a whole situation. One sets out an entrance exam eight days away and what failing it would mean at home. One asks whether a pregnancy after 35 will need medical help given a diagnosis already under treatment. One is a business owner hoping to make payroll: "just hope I can pay my employees salaries on time and vendors payments andEMIs during this time". Those people are not browsing. They have decided to explain everything to a stranger, and a twelve-word answer will not serve them.

The topics, counted two ways

Primary puts each message in exactly one cluster, first match wins in a fixed priority order, so the column sums to the corpus and can be read as share of volume. Mentions counts every cluster a message touches, which is the honest number when sizing a subject, because one message routinely carries several asks at once. One person, in a single message: "When will I meet my spouse? Love or arranged marriage? Income growth throughout life? Will I be rich? Age of bhagyoday? Spiritual growth? Will I enjoy intimacy with spouse?" Opening is how many of the 983 people made this the very first thing they ever typed.

The classifier places 1,785 messages, 63.8% of the corpus, into a named cluster. The other 1,012 are counted separately further down, not spread across these rows.

Money is the largest subject and is two populations, not one. Split by what the money question is for, one half is a person in distress about debt and salary, and the other is a person asking how high their ceiling goes. "When my debt free possible" and "how much welth potetional in my chart according to d1 d2 end all divishonal chart i able to bilioner if yes in which age?" are the same cluster and want opposite documents. The distress half is more common and is the one usually left unwritten.

The window is a format, not a topic. It carries 371 mentions against 139 primaries, the widest gap in the table, because almost every other question arrives with a date range attached to it. People do not want to be told what a period means. They want a start, an end, and what to do between them. "give me a month wise or dasha wise breakup wiht proper dates for the next 3 years".

The smallest clusters belong to the heaviest users. Only 20 people ever ask about a boss or a colleague, and those 20 send 26.15 free-typed messages each across all subjects, against a corpus average of 2.85. The 41 people who ask about running a business send 11.80 each. The busiest of them wrote 123 messages between 5 July and 23 August, working through cashflow, salaries and vendor payments week by week; another wrote 83 between 16 June and 25 August about one manager and one direct report. Sorting the cluster table by that ratio inverts it almost exactly: the subjects with the fewest people attached have the deepest conversations behind them.

Employment is what people open with. 127 of 983 people made a job question their first ever message, ahead of money at 91 and marriage at 57. Whatever brought someone to a birth chart, work is the thing they say first.

What people type first, and how often they stop there

The first free-typed message from each of the 983 people is the cleanest reading of intent, because nothing we said has shaped it yet.

• 76.1% of opening messages carry a first-person marker, slightly higher than the corpus as a whole.
• The median opening is nine words.
• 28.1% of openings match no named cluster, mostly because they are three words long: "Job change", "Money problem", "My love life".
• 45.3% of people never type a second message. Four hundred and forty-five of the 983 asked one thing and left.

That last number sets the bar for a first answer. Nearly half the audience will judge the whole product on one reply to one nine-word question, and a large share of those questions are too short to be answerable as written. "Money problem" is a topic, not a question, and the answer has to work anyway.

Half of everything is typed by a tenth of the people

Ninety-eight people, the top tenth, wrote 1,419 of the 2,796 messages that carry text. A subject that looks small by message count can still be small by people, or it can be one person asking about it forty times, and the two demand different responses. The people column in the cluster table exists for that reason.

For scale: AstroMedha holds 1,661 stored charts belonging to 1,636 account holders, some of whom have added a second chart for a family member. 977 of those 1,636 have typed at least one free-text question, which is 60%. The other six people in the 983 asked a question against a chart that is no longer stored.

A third of what people type is not a question

844 messages, 30.2% of the corpus, contain no question mark and no interrogative word in any of the three languages checked. They come from every part of the log, inside named clusters and outside them, and they split into two useful kinds.

A topic handed over as a label. "Spouse characteristics". "Health issues". "Grah position". "dating , relationship marraige, social life". The person is naming a domain and expecting the reading to be constructed for them.

A fact about their life, offered as evidence. "Married in 2023 and divorced in 2025". "I broke up with my partner in March 2026". "i did have an implant in October 2025 that failed". "I am in Talent Acquisition in IT". These arrive in the middle of a conversation and are the person correcting or feeding the reading, which is a form of participation that no search query has an equivalent for.

Separately from that, 1,012 messages sit outside every named cluster in the table above: 588 that match no pattern at all, 285 context statements, 117 conversational fragments ("Yes please", "thanks you so much for ur invaluable guidence"), and 22 in a script the English classifier could not read. All four counts are published here rather than folded into the clusters to make the clusters look larger.

The questions that do not arrive in English

Twenty-seven messages contain a non-Latin script: Devanagari in 10, Arabic or Persian in 6, Malayalam in 4, Kannada in 4, Bengali in 2, Sinhala in 1. That is under one percent and it undercounts the real figure badly, because Hindi written in Latin letters classifies as English and is common: "Meri shaadi kab hogi", "Kya mai ielts pass kr jaugu", "Meri internship with job kab aur kitni salary pe lagegi", "Govt job yavaga" (Kannada in Latin script).

The mixing happens inside single sentences. A person will set up the situation in English and ask the actual question in Hindi, or the reverse. Any tool that treats language as a per-user setting rather than a per-sentence one will get this wrong.

The support form is a second chat window nobody labelled

support_tickets holds 53 rows over the same period. Seven are internal (AstroMedha's own test messages and replies from the team) and two are a ticketing system replying to itself, leaving 44 contacts from real customers.

Eighteen of those 44 are astrology questions. Not complaints, not refunds, not password resets. A person filled in a support form and asked when they would get married.

• "When I will get married? Love marriage or arrange please tell briefly..."
• "Career..Will I get government job in 2027?"
• "On which year i have my baby in my hand and when I conceive."
• "About sarala yoga in my kundli"
• "Tell about my future husband occupation.his name first initial."
• "महाराष्ट्र पोलीस मध्ये सरकारी नोकरी"
• "Meri shaadi kab hogi aur love marriage hogi ya arrange marriage"
• "Important dates for good work"

The distribution matches the chat log almost exactly: employment, marriage, spouse identity, fertility, remedies. Four more tickets read as chart questions with no question attached at all, such as a person whose entire message was their date of birth.

Forty-one percent of real support contact being a question the product already answers means the path from wanting an answer to getting one was not obvious to those people. That is a navigation problem rather than a content one, and the fix is a clearer route from the support form into the chat, not more writing.

What this does not measure

It measures people who already signed up. Everyone here has a birth chart stored, which they created by giving a date, a time and a place. Someone who wanted a definition and found one elsewhere never reached this log. The 0.5% definitional rate is a fact about people who came to a chart, and it should not be read as a fact about everyone searching for astrology.

Roughly a third does not classify. 588 messages match no cluster pattern, 285 are context statements, 117 are conversational fragments, and 22 are in a script the classifier could not read. All four are counted in the open. Nothing rules out a real cluster hiding inside the 588, and the clusters that exist here were themselves discovered by reading, not designed in advance.

Priority order shapes the primary column. A message reading "when will I get a job abroad" lands under employment, not under going abroad, because employment is checked first. That is why the mentions column exists, and why the mentions column is the one to use when sizing a subject.

Four months is a season. The window runs 20 April to 25 August 2026 and 84% of it falls in July and August. Exam questions concentrate around the exams that are actually happening. A pull in February would find a different mix, and repeating this measurement is the only way to know which parts hold.

Some messages are our own words coming back. Seven long messages are a reader pasting an earlier answer back in to argue with it. They are left in, because a person who pastes a paragraph back and challenges it is asking a real question about it.

How to reproduce this

Every number above comes from three tables read directly, with no cached export and no summary from anywhere else.

1. Pull chart_chat_messages where role='user', in pages of 1,000 rows, since PostgREST returns at most 1,000 per request. Expect 3,842 rows dated 2026-04-20 to 2026-08-25, with user_id populated on all of them.
2. Build the exclusion set from the frontend's own git history: every string literal of 20 characters or more, in every historical version of the files that render a chat prompt, with // and /* */ comments removed first.
3. Drop exact matches, drop template matches (a prompt built by inserting a planet name is still our sentence), then drop anything under ten characters.
4. Classify what is left. Read enough of it first that the clusters come from the corpus instead of from an expectation, and publish whatever fails to classify.
5. Count each cluster twice, once first-match-wins and once counting every mention, and publish both.

The one step that cannot be skipped is the second. Skip it and the loudest question in the log is a sentence we wrote.

Ask your own chart one of these

Underneath, the questions in this log share one shape. Each wants a specific thing back about one specific person, and none of them has an answer until a birth date, a birth time and a birth place are on the table.

• Build the chart first: free kundli, and your planetary periods with their dates.
• What 127 people opened with, more than any other subject: when will I get a job in the next 24 months.
• The half of the money cluster that usually goes unwritten: when will I be debt free.
• Asked by 31 people, and published almost nowhere: what will my spouse be like.
• Asked with a named month, by people mid-treatment: when will I conceive.
• Asked by 65 people about exams they sit in weeks: exams and your chart.
• The "is it in mine" version of every definition page: which yogas are in my chart.
• Asked by seven people and published nowhere else. Your atmakaraka, meaning the planet standing at the highest degree in your chart, points at one deity in particular: what is my ishta devata.
• Or ask it directly.

Two companion counts across the same user base: how common is mangal dosha and how common is kala sarpa yoga.

Yoga means a named combination of planets the tradition reads as a unit.

Counted on 26 August 2026 from AstroMedha's own message log. 2,797 free-typed messages from 983 people, 20 April to 25 August 2026. No message is reproduced with a name, a birth date or a location attached to it.