The Bhagol Standard

This is the page to hold us to.

Everything on bhagol is written under the rules below. They are not a statement of values. A value is something a company can quietly stop having. Each rule here has a mechanism attached: a thing we do, or refuse to do, that leaves a record. If we break a rule, there should be a page, a date, or a missing note that shows it.

When we begin selling anything, every paid page will link back to this one. That is the point of writing it before any price exists.

We do not predict specific events

No essay here will tell you that you will lose a job, fall ill, marry in October, or come into money. Timing in jyotisha can give a decision a shape: when a matter is under pressure, when to move, when to wait, what is worth watching. It does not tell you what will happen.

The mechanism: "you will" is a sentence we do not write. If a reader finds one in a post, that is a reportable error and we will correct it in public, the same way we correct a wrong date. See corrections.

We do not sell remedies

No gemstones, no yantras, no mantras for a fee, no pujas, no rituals, no subscription that quiets a fear we introduced.

The mechanism: there is no shop. Nothing on this site can be bought that claims to fix, cancel, or protect you from anything in a chart. If we ever sell something, it will be time, teaching, or written work, and it will be listed with its price and its limits before you pay. The founder has put the planned prices and their reasoning in public already, in how we set a price.

The reason is simple. A business that earns from the cure earns from the disease. That arrangement corrupts slowly and from the inside, and no amount of good intent survives it.

We take no commissions

We write about the stone trade, the ritual packages, and the app economy. We take nothing from any of them.

The mechanism: no affiliate links, no referral fees, no revenue share, and no paid placement anywhere on this site. We do not accept payment to name a seller, a practitioner, or a product. When money starts coming in, the page it comes from will say who is paying and for what.

As of 31 July 2026, exactly one thing is for sale: a written guide, listed with its price, scope, limits, and refund rule on its own page. The sentence that stood here the day before said nothing was for sale; this is the dated change it promised. Money on bhagol comes from time, teaching, and written work, never from fear or its cures.

We show calculations where calculation matters

If a claim rests on arithmetic, the arithmetic goes in the essay. Not a summary of it. The working, in numbers you can redo on paper. The computed-sky series is this rule in practice: one full computation per essay, and the founder's note on why the arithmetic is open explains what it costs to be checkable.

The mechanism: any number that depends on a convention is printed with that convention beside it. Which ayanamsha, which house system, which ephemeris, which panchang. A number without its conventions is not a result, it is a rumour.

We name sources where texts matter

If a claim rests on a text, we name the text and the chapter.

The mechanism: we paraphrase in our own words and say that we are paraphrasing. We quote a verse only when the text has been checked. We do not invent verses, and we do not attribute a modern idea to an old book because it sounds better that way. If a specific cannot be verified, we write around it or cut it. This rule costs us sentences: several claims that circulate widely cannot be sourced, so we say that they cannot be sourced, which is a duller thing to publish than the claim.

We separate computation, text, history, and house judgment

Four different kinds of sentence get written about a chart, and they carry very different weight. Most harm in this field comes from mixing them.

- Computation is arithmetic. It shows its working and its conventions. - Text is doctrine. It names the book and the chapter. - History is dates and evidence. It names where the evidence comes from. - Judgment is a person's opinion. It says "I think", and a name is attached.

The mechanism: a line that is none of these four does not go out. You should always be able to tell which one you are reading, and you should be able to argue with the fourth without having to dispute the first.

We may interpret a chart, within declared limits

A personal reading may explain how a chart's positions, houses, nakṣatras, and daśā periods are conventionally read together. It may identify the life domains a reader may want to examine during a period, and may offer practical, ordinary ways to meet uncertainty: keep records, seek informed advice, make a budget, rest, speak plainly, or revisit a decision. Interpretation is useful only when it adds a lens for attention without pretending to replace evidence, professional care, or the reader's own judgment.

The mechanism: every interpretive passage is labelled Interpretation and names the computed positions it draws from. It uses conditional language such as “may invite attention to” and “can be read as”, never a fixed future or a diagnosis. A suggested response must be low-cost, optional, and independently useful even if the chart is ignored. It cannot ask for a purchase, a ritual, a gemstone, a practitioner, or a decision made in fear. Medical, legal, mental- health, and financial decisions remain matters for qualified professionals and evidence outside the chart.

We correct mistakes publicly

We will get things wrong. Dates, numbers, a chapter reference, a claim about what a text says.

The mechanism: a correction is made on the post itself and carries a dated note saying what changed. Nothing is fixed quietly. A typo or a broken link gets repaired without ceremony, but anything that changes meaning gets a note that stays there permanently. The full policy, including how to report an error, is on the corrections page.

A reading should leave you with more agency, not less

This is the test the other rules exist to serve.

After reading anything here, you should feel more able to decide something and less dependent on us. If a piece of writing makes you feel that your life is being run from somewhere you cannot see, and that only a payment will settle it, that piece of writing has failed, whatever else it got right.

The mechanism: we ask this question of every post before it goes up, and we ask readers to ask it of us. Where a post falls short, tell us, and say which sentence did it.

What we will not do commercially

These bind us in advance, before there is any money to be made from bending them. The founder's fuller list, with the reasoning, is the refusal list.

- No fear diagnosis, free or paid. - No urgency. No countdowns, no closing windows, no last slots. - No guaranteed outcomes. - No paid rankings of astrologers. - No selling reader details to practitioners. - No subscription built on alerts about what might go wrong. - No "members know the real secret" positioning. The good material is public.

We do not ask for your birth details

The blog collects no birth data. Not a date, not a time, not a place. There is no free chart at the entrance here, because the free chart at the entrance is usually the first step of a sale.

If we later build something that needs birth data, it will be a separate, clearly marked thing, with its own written terms, and it will still be governed by this page. A birth time is among the most identifying facts a person owns; the founder has written about why in your birth details. See privacy for what we hold today, which is very little.

Holding us to this

Read the list again as a set of things to check, and check them on us first. Every item above leaves behind either a published document or a record you can ask us to produce.

If you find a rule broken, write to support@bhagol.in; the corrections page says what happens next.