KP House Significators

Computes KP house significators for all 12 houses. For each house returns: occupants, sign lord, planets in nakshatra of occupants (level 3), and planets in nakshatra of the sign lord (level 4). Request JSON follows BirthInput: name, date (YYYY-MM-DD), time (HH:MM, required), either location or latitude/longitude/timezone, optional ayanamsa.

Endpoint

POST /v1/astro/kp/significators

Request parameters

Field	Type	Required	Description
location	string | null	No	City name to resolve to lat/lon/tz automatically. Example: 'Mumbai' or 'New Delhi, India'. If provided, latitude, longitude and timezone are not required.
name	string	No	Person name associated with the birth record
date	string	Yes	Birth date in YYYY-MM-DD format
time	string | null	No	Birth time in HH:MM 24-hour format. If omitted, sunrise chart is used as fallback.
latitude	number | null	No	Latitude. Required if location not provided.
longitude	number | null	No	Longitude. Required if location not provided.
timezone	string | null	No	IANA timezone. Required if location not provided.
ayanamsa	string	No	Sidereal ayanamsa mode used in calculations

Example request

curl

curl -X POST "https://api.asterwise.com/v1/astro/kp/significators" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"date":"1985-11-12","time":"06:45","latitude":19.076,"longitude":72.8777,"timezone":"Asia/Kolkata"}'

Python

import asterwise
from asterwise.api.kp_api import KpApi
from asterwise.models.kp_birth_request import KPBirthRequest

configuration = asterwise.Configuration(
    host="https://api.asterwise.com",
    access_token="YOUR_API_KEY",
)

request = KPBirthRequest(
    date="1985-11-12",
    time="06:45",
    latitude=19.076,
    longitude=72.8777,
    timezone="Asia/Kolkata",
)

with asterwise.ApiClient(configuration) as client:
    api = KpApi(client)
    result = api.kp_significators(kp_birth_request=request)
    print(result)

TypeScript

import { createClient, createConfig, kpSignificators } from 'asterwise';

const client = createClient(createConfig({
  baseUrl: 'https://api.asterwise.com',
  headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' },
}));

const result = await kpSignificators({
  client,
  body: {
      "date": "1985-11-12",
      "time": "06:45",
      "latitude": 19.076,
      "longitude": 72.8777,
      "timezone": "Asia/Kolkata"
  },
});

console.log(result.data);

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "message": "success",
  "data": {
    "ayanamsa": "kp",
    "significators": {
      "1": {
        "house": 1,
        "sign_lord": "Venus",
        "occupants": [
          "Sun",
          "Moon",
          "... and 2 more items"
        ],
        "nak_of_occupants": [
          "Mars",
          "Jupiter",
          "... and 1 more item"
        ],
        "nak_of_lord": [
          "Rahu"
        ],
        "all_significators": [
          "Sun",
          "Moon",
          "... and 5 more items"
        ]
      },
      "2": {
        "house": 2,
        "sign_lord": "Mars",
        "occupants": [
          "Mercury",
          "Saturn"
        ],
        "nak_of_occupants": [
          "Mercury",
          "Saturn"
        ],
        "nak_of_lord": [],
        "all_significators": [
          "Mercury",
          "Saturn",
          "... and 1 more item"
        ]
      },
      "3": {
        "house": 3,
        "sign_lord": "Jupiter",
        "occupants": [],
        "nak_of_occupants": [],
        "nak_of_lord": [
          "Sun"
        ],
        "all_significators": [
          "Jupiter",
          "Sun"
        ]
      },
      "4": {
        "house": 4,
        "sign_lord": "Saturn",
        "occupants": [
          "Jupiter"
        ],
        "nak_of_occupants": [
          "Sun"
        ],
        "nak_of_lord": [
          "Saturn"
        ],
        "all_significators": [
          "Jupiter",
          "Saturn",
          "... and 1 more item"
        ]
      },
      "5": {
        "house": 5,
        "sign_lord": "Saturn",
        "occupants": [],
        "nak_of_occupants": [],
        "nak_of_lord": [
          "Saturn"
        ],
        "all_significators": [
          "Saturn"
        ]
      },
      "6": {
        "house": 6,
        "sign_lord": "Jupiter",
        "occupants": [],
        "nak_of_occupants": [],
        "nak_of_lord": [
          "Sun"
        ],
        "all_significators": [
          "Jupiter",
          "Sun"
        ]
      },
      "7": {
        "house": 7,
        "sign_lord": "Mars",
        "occupants": [
          "Rahu"
        ],
        "nak_of_occupants": [
          "Moon",
          "Venus",
          "... and 1 more item"
        ],
        "nak_of_lord": [],
        "all_significators": [
          "Rahu",
          "Mars",
          "... and 3 more items"
        ]
      },
      "8": {
        "house": 8,
        "sign_lord": "Venus",
        "occupants": [],
        "nak_of_occupants": [],
        "nak_of_lord": [
          "Rahu"
        ],
        "all_significators": [
          "Venus",
          "Rahu"
        ]
      },
      "9": {
        "house": 9,
        "sign_lord": "Mercury",
        "occupants": [],
        "nak_of_occupants": [],
        "nak_of_lord": [
          "Mercury"
        ],
        "all_significators": [
          "Mercury"
        ]
      },
      "10": {
        "house": 10,
        "sign_lord": "Moon",
        "occupants": [],
        "nak_of_occupants": [],
        "nak_of_lord": [
          "Mars",
          "Jupiter"
        ],
        "all_significators": [
          "Moon",
          "Mars",
          "... and 1 more item"
        ]
      },
      "11": {
        "house": 11,
        "sign_lord": "Sun",
        "occupants": [],
        "nak_of_occupants": [],
        "nak_of_lord": [],
        "all_significators": [
          "Sun"
        ]
      },
      "12": {
        "house": 12,
        "sign_lord": "Mercury",
        "occupants": [
          "Mars"
        ],
        "nak_of_occupants": [],
        "nak_of_lord": [
          "Mercury"
        ],
        "all_significators": [
          "Mars",
          "Mercury"
        ]
      }
    },
    "planet_significators": {
      "Sun": {
        "tier1_houses": [
          4
        ],
        "tier2_houses": [
          1
        ],
        "tier3_houses": [
          3,
          6
        ],
        "tier4_houses": [
          11
        ],
        "all_significators": [
          4,
          1,
          "... and 3 more items"
        ]
      },
      "Moon": {
        "tier1_houses": [
          7
        ],
        "tier2_houses": [
          1
        ],
        "tier3_houses": [],
        "tier4_houses": [
          10
        ],
        "all_significators": [
          7,
          1,
          "... and 1 more item"
        ]
      },
      "Mars": {
        "tier1_houses": [
          1
        ],
        "tier2_houses": [
          12
        ],
        "tier3_houses": [
          10
        ],
        "tier4_houses": [
          2,
          7
        ],
        "all_significators": [
          1,
          12,
          "... and 3 more items"
        ]
      },
      "Mercury": {
        "tier1_houses": [
          2
        ],
        "tier2_houses": [
          2
        ],
        "tier3_houses": [
          9,
          12
        ],
        "tier4_houses": [
          9,
          12
        ],
        "all_significators": [
          2,
          9,
          "... and 1 more item"
        ]
      },
      "Jupiter": {
        "tier1_houses": [
          1
        ],
        "tier2_houses": [
          4
        ],
        "tier3_houses": [
          10
        ],
        "tier4_houses": [
          3,
          6
        ],
        "all_significators": [
          1,
          4,
          "... and 3 more items"
        ]
      },
      "Venus": {
        "tier1_houses": [
          7
        ],
        "tier2_houses": [
          1
        ],
        "tier3_houses": [],
        "tier4_houses": [
          1,
          8
        ],
        "all_significators": [
          7,
          1,
          "... and 1 more item"
        ]
      },
      "Saturn": {
        "tier1_houses": [
          2
        ],
        "tier2_houses": [
          2
        ],
        "tier3_houses": [
          4,
          5
        ],
        "tier4_houses": [
          4,
          5
        ],
        "all_significators": [
          2,
          4,
          "... and 1 more item"
        ]
      },
      "Rahu": {
        "tier1_houses": [
          1
        ],
        "tier2_houses": [
          7
        ],
        "tier3_houses": [
          1,
          8
        ],
        "tier4_houses": [],
        "all_significators": [
          1,
          7,
          "... and 1 more item"
        ]
      },
      "Ketu": {
        "tier1_houses": [
          7
        ],
        "tier2_houses": [
          1
        ],
        "tier3_houses": [],
        "tier4_houses": [],
        "all_significators": [
          7,
          1
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

Response fields

Field	Type	Description
success	boolean	True if the request succeeded
message	string	Human-readable status message
data	object
data.ayanamsa	string
data.significators	object
data.planet_significators	object

Errors

Code	Description	Reference
authentication_failed	Missing or invalid API key.	authentication_failed
ephemeris_unavailable	Upstream ephemeris service error.	ephemeris_unavailable
insufficient_tier	API key tier does not include this endpoint.	insufficient_tier
internal_error	Unexpected server error.	internal_error
ip_rate_limit_exceeded	Too many requests in a short window.	ip_rate_limit_exceeded
payload_too_large	Request body exceeds the size limit.	payload_too_large
resource_not_found	Referenced resource was not found.	resource_not_found
validation_error	Request body failed schema validation.	validation_error

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