Asking the chart a question: how the consult works and what credits cost

The consult is a question box that sits on every screen. It is not a chatbot with an astrology vocabulary; it reads the native's chart, periods and transits before it writes a word.

What it reads

Before answering, the consult assembles the native's facts (sex, age, what is known about marriage and work), the D1 with conjunctions and the planets with the mahadasha lord, the divisional charts the question needs, the current and past sub-periods, the transits and their ingress dates, the strength tables, and the rules of the remedy rulebook for the question's domain. At Standard and Deep depth it can also fetch any screen of the desk and read the engine's own source to check a definition. That reach is the same recipe the astrologers' Lab uses when it reviews a reading.

The shape of an answer

Every answer follows one shape: a line restating what you asked, two to four short paragraphs in time order anchored on periods with the months in bold, and a closing line with the likely outcome. About 90 to 130 words, in plain language, in English or Hindi. The astrology that justified it (the houses, the lords, the dasha logic) is kept with the answer rather than printed inside it, so a client reads a reading and an astrologer can still check the working.

Three depths

How credits are counted

A question costs the words in it plus the words in the answer you read (the paragraphs, never the working), multiplied by the depth's rate: one at Quick, two at Standard, five at Deep. There is a floor of twenty words per question, so a one-word reply still pays for the reading behind it: 20 credits at Quick, 40 at Standard, 100 at Deep. A typical Standard answer of about 110 words to a 15-word question costs around 250 credits, so a 1,000-credit allowance is three to four Standard answers or seven to eight Quick ones. Plans include a monthly allowance (1,000, 3,000 or 5,000 credits); bought credits never expire and are spent after the allowance.

What it will not do

It will not invent a window it cannot anchor on a period or a transit, it refuses to answer in the wrong language, and it says when the chart does not support a confident reading. If it cannot read a screen it says so instead of guessing.