What is Far Far Away astrology | and is it accurate?
A sidereal chart tool people search for by name, and a valuable way into how Vedic astrology is structured.
4 min read · Published 15 August 2026 · Updated 29 August 2026
The answer
Far Far Away is a Vedic astrology website at farfaraway.co offering free birth-chart readings computed sidereally. It covers the standard Jyotish apparatus (dasha periods, divisional charts such as the D-9 Navamsa and D-10 Dasamsa, nakshatras, transits and compatibility) and publishes teaching material on an accompanying YouTube channel. It's a Vedic tool, so the sign it gives you will usually differ by one from your Western sign.
What it is
Far Far Away (farfaraway.co) is a free-to-use Vedic astrology chart service. You enter your birth date, time and place and it returns a reading built on sidereal calculation: the zodiac anchored to the fixed stars instead of the equinox. The site states it uses NASA planetary data for positions and geographic lookup for coordinates.
Alongside the chart it offers question-based readings, a compatibility feature, and an educational YouTube channel teaching Vedic astrology through worked examples. The site advertises well over a million readings generated.
Any free chart tool that hides its ayanamsa is hiding a choice, and I'd check that before I trusted a single placement.
The Vedic features it exposes
What these terms mean if you are new to Jyotish
- Dashas: planetary periods. The Vimshottari system divides your life into named stretches ruled by different planets, some lasting years. This is Jyotish's main timing tool and Western astrology has no direct equivalent.
- Navamsa (D-9): a divisional chart derived from the main one, traditionally consulted for marriage and for the underlying strength of a planet.
- Dasamsa (D-10): a second divisional chart, read for career and public standing.
- Nakshatras: 27 lunar mansions dividing the zodiac. The Moon's nakshatra is central to Vedic reading in a way it simply isn't in the Western tradition.
If those four terms are unfamiliar, that gap is the real difference between the two traditions, not the sign names. A fuller comparison is in Vedic vs Western astrology.
How it differs from AsterNym
| Far Far Away | AsterNym | |
|---|---|---|
| Zodiac | Sidereal (Vedic) | Tropical on the Western chart; sidereal (Lahiri) on the Vedic page |
| Timing | Vimshottari dashas | Vimshottari dashas on the Vedic page; progressions, solar returns and BaZi Luck Pillars elsewhere |
| Lunar layer | 27 nakshatras | 27 nakshatras and padas on the Vedic page; Moon sign and phase on the Western chart |
| Other systems | Jyotish throughout | Jyotish alongside Western astrology, BaZi, Zi Wei, numerology, tarot, Human Design and astronomy |
| Divisional charts | D-9, D-10 and others | D1 and D9 only, withheld without a supporting birth time |
A Vedic tool and a tropical Western tool asked the same birth details will return different signs, different timing frameworks and different vocabulary, and both can be correctly computed. What counts is that each says which system it used. AsterNym's Vedic page states its ayanamsa, node convention, house system and dasha-year length; compare those settings before comparing dates.
What to check on any free chart tool
Four questions to ask, of us as much as anyone
- Which zodiac? Tropical and sidereal give different answers. A tool that doesn't say is the only broken case.
- What happens without a birth time? Houses, the Ascendant and the hour pillar all need one. A tool that returns them anyway is guessing.
- Where do the positions come from? Real ephemeris data, or a lookup table of approximate sign dates?
- What does it refuse to answer? A tool with no refusals is a tool that will tell you anything.
If you want the sidereal reading
AsterNym's Vedic calculator computes it: a sidereal chart under the Lahiri ayanamsa with whole-sign houses, the 27 nakshatras, D1 and D9, and the Vimshottari timeline with the current and next period. Its conventions are printed on the page, so a result that differs from Far Far Away's can be traced to a setting. Everything else AsterNym computes is set out with its methods at how it works.
Still wondering
- What is Far Far Away Astrology?
- Far Far Away (farfaraway.co) is a free Vedic astrology website that generates sidereal birth-chart readings from your birth details, including dasha periods, divisional charts such as the Navamsa and Dasamsa, nakshatras, transits and compatibility. It also runs a YouTube channel teaching Vedic astrology.
- Is Far Far Away Vedic or Western astrology?
- Vedic. It uses the sidereal zodiac, which is anchored to the fixed stars instead of the March equinox. Because the two zodiacs have drifted about 24 degrees apart, the sign it gives you will usually be one earlier than your Western sign.
- Why does Far Far Away give me a different sign?
- Because it is sidereal and most Western sites are tropical. The two zodiacs start from different points and have drifted roughly 24 degrees apart over about two thousand years. Both are computed correctly; they measure from different zeros.
- Is Far Far Away astrology accurate?
- Its structure is standard Jyotish and it states it computes positions from NASA planetary data, which is how any serious chart tool works. We haven't audited its output, but the thing most people flag as an error (getting a different sign than expected) isn't one: it's the sidereal zodiac, sitting about 24 degrees from the Western tropical one. Whether a Vedic reading is accurate about your life is a different question, and one no calculation settles.
- Does AsterNym do Vedic astrology?
- Yes, since August 2026. The Vedic page computes a sidereal chart under the Lahiri ayanamsa with whole-sign houses, the 27 nakshatras, D1 and D9, and the Vimshottari dasha timeline. The Western natal chart stays tropical, and each page says which zodiac it uses.
Salimah Ibrahim