How it fits together

You write a line about your day. That's the mental part, and honestly it's enough. If you want more, the app reads that line against where you are in time — the long chapter you're in, the hour of the day, the channel in the body that's currently awake — and offers one small physical practice. What comes up often needs another person, so you're pointed toward people and circles who can meet it. Meeting it means someone actually doing something, which is where behaviour lives. And what you give away, freely, is the part that isn't about you at all.

Punya is simply a record of that last part. It's split across seven centres so you can see which parts of yourself are being fed and which are quietly starving.

The seven centres

• RootMuladhara

  Feeling safe and steady — the ground under everything else.

  Earned by: Receiving help and showing up day after day

• SacralSvadhisthana

  Feeling and making — your creative, emotional weather.

  Earned by: Sharing photos, moods and things you've made

• Solar plexusManipura

  Will and follow-through — doing the thing you said you'd do.

  Earned by: Completing help you offered someone

• HeartAnahata

  Warmth toward others, freely given.

  Earned by: Compliments given and punya chipped in for others

• ThroatVishuddha

  Saying the true thing — voice, honesty, expression.

  Earned by: Journaling and posting to the feed

• Third eyeAjna

  Seeing clearly — insight into your own patterns.

  Earned by: Reflections and time spent with your chart

• CrownSahasrara

  The part of you that isn't about you.

  Earned by: Giving punya away and lifting other people up

Words the app uses

Punya

Good that you've actually done — merit earned by kindness, not by intention.

It's what punya counts here, and why only earned points move your tier.

Punya

Action and its echo — what you do coming back around.

Every point in the app is a record of something you did for someone.

Chakra

One of seven centres in the body, each standing for a part of being human — safety, feeling, will, love, voice, insight, meaning.

Your punya is sorted into these seven, so you can see which parts of you are getting fed.

Mahadasha

The long chapter of life you're in, ruled by one planet, lasting years.

It sets the theme; your chakra focus and daily practice follow from it.

Antardasha

A shorter season inside that chapter, ruled by a second planet.

It colours the mood of the years-long theme — the sub-plot inside the story.

Pratyantardasha

A brief phase inside the season — weeks rather than years.

It's usually what today actually feels like.

Hora

The planetary hour — each hour of the day belongs to one planet.

It's the smallest timing signal, useful for choosing when to write, ask or help.

Nakshatra

One of 27 lunar mansions — the patch of sky the Moon was sitting in when you were born.

It sets where your dasha sequence begins, so everything downstream depends on it.

Dasha lord

The planet in charge of the period you're in.

Its qualities are what the app's colours, crystals and volunteering suggestions respond to.

Meridian

In Chinese medicine, a channel in the body that's most active at a certain time of day.

It gives the physical counterpart to the chakra — where to put attention in the body right now.

Lagna

The sign rising on the horizon at your birth — the lens you meet the world through.

It anchors the whole chart, and shapes which archetype circle you're offered.

Daana

Giving — a specific thing donated to soften a planet's harder edge.

It's the oldest version of what this app does: help given, weight lifted.

Guides

• What is Vimshottari dasha?

  The 120-year timing cycle — mahadasha, antardasha, pratyantardasha — explained plainly.

• Hora today

  What the planetary hour is, how today's timings are calculated, and what each hour is good for.

• How to write a gratitude journal

  The smallest wellbeing practice that has been seriously studied — and how to make it stick.

None of this is required. One line a day is a complete practice.