In Vedic Astrology there are so many parameters at play when it comes to time of birth. Thus even twins who seem to have been entwined at birth end up with different destinies. Enormous research needs to be done in this area of astrology to understand the intricacies of such charts. Twins are generally born 1-5 mins apart from each other and even their charts differ in case of higher divisional charts. The Vedic astrology in its current renaissance period is in the infancy stage, so it will take many hundred years before we understand such finer principles of astrology.

The divisional charts or higher harmonic charts just like the nakshatras are a unique aspect of Vedic astrology. Every human being irrespective of where he is born on this planet will go through shodasa kriya’s in his life or there are 16 aspects of his life that hold utmost importance. These 16 aspects of life are attributed to the 16 astrological charts of the native. So it is just not one chart that an astrologer needs to study before the prediction but he has to study the remaining 15 divisional chart before arriving at an answer. Please refer to the table below in-order to understand the importance of these divisional charts.

The first column refers to the simple name indicating the division. The second column is the Samskritha name associated with the division. In Vedic sciences, the names have very high importance and just understanding the Samskritha terminologies will reveal volume of information related to the topic. The third column refers to the important indications of that divisional chart. The fourth column refers to the division in degrees and the mathematics behind erecting a divisional chart. The fifth column refers to how many minutes it takes for the ascendant to change from one sign to another. For example consider two people who are born 5 mins apart at the same hospital. Both the natives will have the same rising sign say Virgo in the D1 chart but when you examine the D60 chart, their ascendant signs will be different. One may have a Capricorn rising and the other person may have an Aquarius rising because the ascendant changes signs every 3 – 3 ½ mins in the D60. Due to this both the natives will approach life in very different ways, the Capricorn native may even have a bigger build and long legs, a characteristic of Saturn and very hard-working while the Aquarius native may have a medium build and have humanitarian tendencies. Since the D60 is the chart that is used for fine-tuning all the predictions about a native, both the individuals will have different lifestyles. Analogously the other people born at the same location who are born further apart in time will have different ascendants in the other divisional charts. One may refer to the above table to understand how quickly the ascendant changes in the other divisional charts for such natives. Since the ascendant changes very quickly in the higher divisional charts,twins will have major differences in that particular sphere of life where they have different ascendants in that particular divisional chart.