The Vedic astrological chart is a map of your soul’s intentions for this lifetime. The karmic patterns you carry. The direction you are being called towards. And the deep intelligence woven into the timing of your birth.
Vedic Reading – Natal and D9
Your natal chart, the D1, shows what you came into this lifetime with – your raw blueprint, your karma, the outer story. But it’s the Navamsha, the D9, that shows what your soul actually came here to complete. This is the subtler chart hidden inside your birth chart: the one that reveals your true dharma, your hidden strengths, your inner blockages, and how close your outer life is running to your soul’s real trajectory.
What this reading includes
Your D1 (natal) foundations, the outer story: your core placements, strengths and the karmic terrain you were born into.
Your D9 (Navamsha) overlay: how each planet’s placement in your natal chart shifts, strengthens or softens once we look at its subtler position in the Navamsha. This is where hidden potential and hidden blockages both come into view.
Your soul’s driving purpose: a reading of the key placements that point toward what you’re here to grow into, not just what comes easily, so you can see where your outer life is aligned with (or pulling away from) your deeper trajectory.
Where you’re already strong: planets that are exalted, well-placed, “vargottama” (repeating their natal sign in the D9), or falling in a Pushkara (“nourished”) portion, all show where you have real, ready potential to draw on.
Where the growth edge is: placements that show friction between your outer and inner charts aren’t a flaw to fix; they’re where the most transformative work of this lifetime is happening. We’ll name these clearly and compassionately.
A brief note may be included on what the D9 shows for relationships and inner nourishment — though this layer is explored in full in our dedicated Compatibility Reading, so we’ll only touch it lightly here unless you’d like to go deeper on request.
PRICING
Length: Approximately 75 minutes, plus research time
with Padma Khandro (new clients)
with a junior practitioner
Navamsha (D9) Soul Path Reading — for returning clients only
A focused, single-chart deep dive into the D9 alone, for clients who’ve already had a reading with Padma and want to go further into the subtler layer of their soul’s driving purpose, their innate nature versus their higher calling, and the “secret doors” in their chart where the deepest transformation is available to them.
The D9 in many ways is a key to our sacred nature. 9 being one of the most mystical and Divine numbers that unlocks many keys to our transcendental nature. The Rishis knew the importance of 9 and this is why this divisional chart is so important.
Standard reading Length:
1 hour reading, plus a special mini divination included
DISCOUNTED NAVAMSA READINGS
Between now and 10th September (for people who have fully registered by 8th September)
Between 10th and 21st September (for people who are fully registered by 18th September)
Between 21st September and 9th October (for people registered by 7th October – later registration delivered approx. 13th October)
Victoria Sinclair
Padma Khandro
Padma Khandro is a worldwide respected consciousness and holistic trauma-healing innovator with over 30 years of teaching experience and more than 35 years of study in esoteric wisdom traditions.
Padma has been studying astrology since 2008, with her current primary branches of enquiry being Jyotish (Vedic astrology), the Dreamspell calendar and the Chok q’il Sacred Mayan Calendar. A deeply initiated practitioner, Padma has spent over a decade in pilgrimage and ceremonial work in the Mayan lands of Mexico and Guatemala — working with wisdom-keepers, elders, visionaries and shamans, and training with Daykeepers in the Guatemalan Highlands. She is an initiate of the Order of the 7 Rays and has studied Jyotish with some of the tradition’s most respected teachers including Ernst Wilhelm, Komilla Sutton, Dr Arjun Pai and Achala Mihajlović, with whom she currently receives one-to-one coaching including tuition in the rare and profound Kalachakra astrology system.
Madalena Banha
Madalena is an energy medicine practitioner working with quantum and multidimensional healing modalities, alongside the astrological science of Jyotish (Vedic astrology), supporting people through transformation, transition, and spiritual growth. Her work bridges the practical and the spiritual, offering grounded yet expansive space for deep inner shifts.
She specialises in energy clearing, working with modalities such as Sekhem and Quantum Transfiguration. Her approach is trauma-informed, multidimensional, and rooted in respect, the feminine principle, and cultivating a decolonised approach that honours diverse traditions and belief systems.
