37 Life Questions Astrology Can Answer

Introduction

My name is Gaurav. I'm the founder of FarFarAway, an astrology website. If you are new to astrology or someone has introduced you to astrology, you might wonder what kind of questions can be answered through astrology, and that is what I'm going to help you explore here.

You might also think astrology is limited to understanding your personality based on your day of birth. You read the horoscope corresponding to your date of birth in a newspaper. You might feel astrology is all about that, but there's much more to it.

The foundation behind the questions

There are nine planets. The position that you read in the newspaper is for your Sun sign. There are eight other planets. There are 12 houses, 12 zodiac signs and 27 Nakshatras, or constellations.

That is the essence of Vedic astrology. The combination of all of this is your birth chart, and from your birth chart you can arrive at multiple conclusions about your life within this method. They are astrological interpretations, not guarantees.

Question 1: your personality

Starting from personality, some people naturally have a very social personality. They're very charming. They're very talkative. Others are more introverted. Others are more maternal. Some people have natural leadership ability.

All of this you can assess from your birth chart in my approach. That is the first of the 37 questions.

Question 2: your life's purpose

Now, life's purpose is the other thing you can logically try to find out from your chart. If there are many combinations in your chart suggesting you might live a spiritual life, you can identify that.

In other cases, you might be very driven to build a name for yourself, very driven to build an identity. You might be very driven to fulfil your aspirations on a material plane. So your life's purpose, question 2, can also be explored through your birth chart.

Questions 3–6: career, industry, role and business

Naturally, we all have this question: which career path to follow? Some people are meant to follow a career in ancient sciences, such as I. Others have a career in finance, some in medicine, some in hospitality and some in aviation.

Which career path can be identified from your birth chart? This is based on my experience. Whenever I'm contacted by someone for a reading, I try to identify their career. It has rarely been the case that I haven't been able to logically understand from the chart that the person has followed that career path.

It is possible from the chart to identify an engineer, a lawyer, a medical researcher, a financial analyst, a business person or a sports person. You can find all of that. Combinations link to these professions. If they are found in your chart, you're likely to follow that career path within this interpretation.

With this career question, you can also identify which industry might be best suited for you and what kind of work you are going to do on a day-to-day basis. If I identify from your chart that you could be following a career in healthcare, are you going to be a doctor? Are you going to be involved on the surgical side? Or are you going to be a medical researcher? Or are you going to be involved in nursing?

Your exact role can also be identified from your chart in this method. And you can also find out from the chart if running a business is an option for you. We all have this aspiration that we should do something independently, but do you have that path? These are broad possibilities, not professional credentials; education, licensing, ability and experience still matter.

Question 7: a career change

It's reminding me of a passage from the Bhagavad Gita about continuing to follow one's path in life, even if one is going to do another job more perfectly. What I'm trying to say here is that if you have identified a path from the chart you're meant to follow, it's much better to continue to follow that path, even if you're doing it imperfectly, than to do another person's job perfectly. This is my paraphrase, not a command to remain in unsuitable work.

I think it's a lot about identifying what is meant for you, and that is where astrology can be very helpful. In many cases, I also see a combination suggesting that a person might follow multiple careers in their life. They might perform multiple duties in life.

Perhaps in the initial stages they build their career in teaching, later start building their career in finance, and later perhaps move into social service. Or a finance person ends up becoming an astrologer, or someone involved in marketing wants to build a career in acting. So career-change possibility can also be explored from the chart.

Questions 8–11: timing, promotion, risks and travel

Not only that, you can also find some good times in your life. If you're searching for a job for the first time, when are you most likely to get a job? With the power of Dashas, you can conclude logically which are favourable times for you.

Of all the different elements of Vedic astrology, the Dashas have been the most fascinating for me, because the Dashas have never betrayed me in my personal experience. I've usually been able to logically understand why a certain life event is taking place based on the Dasha.

When is the best time to look for a new opportunity? When are you likely to get promoted? And when could be a good time to take a chance in your career? Sometimes we have this mindset that we no longer want to continue doing what we are currently doing, so we quit our job and try to figure things out.

Through astrology, I try to predict whether the time you are in is a good time to take that kind of chance. In some cases, you might even want to move to a different city or a different country for better opportunities. Is that a good time? Is it naturally going to be part of your life? You can try to identify that through the Dashas. Do not make an employment, business, financial or relocation decision from astrology alone.

Questions 12–14: what and when to study

If you're very young and you're planning to study, or if you are already working and you're planning to go for your master's degree or a PhD, you can answer those questions also.

What kind of a learning programme might be better suited for you? What should you study first? Should it be a full-time programme or a part-time programme? In some cases, you want to build your career in research. A chart cannot replace academic requirements, finances, aptitude, health or practical guidance.

Questions 15–17: love affairs and their pattern

Love affairs are always very complicated, but also very exciting. When are you going to stumble upon someone who you may find interesting, or someone may find you interesting, and you might be in a love affair? When can that happen?

It has a lot to do, in this method, with the position of the fifth house in the main chart and the Navamsha. You can try to conclude from the Dashas when it could happen and what kind of love affairs you may have in life, including whether they are going to be short-term relationships.

If Mars and Rahu are found in the fifth house, this interpretation describes a possibility of becoming dissatisfied with a relationship quickly and not having the stamina for the compromises a relationship needs. In another case, if Saturn is in the fifth house, you might be more willing to put in the effort and might have long-term relationships, or you may not be in a relationship at all for a very long time.

These are attributed astrological interpretations, not causes or verdicts. Communication, consent, safety and lived experience matter more than any placement.

Questions 18–23: marriage and your partner

If the time has come for you to think about getting settled, and you want to know when you can get married, you can explore that question through astrology. Who is going to be your partner? What would the character of your life partner be like? What professional background and what physical traits might the person have, including whether the person is going to be foreign to you in terms of culture or place of origin, and whether there is going to be a significant age gap?

These are possibilities within my astrological framework, not deterministic statements about when someone will marry or what a future partner must be like.

Questions 24–25: when difficult times end

Astrology is not limited to identifying only the good times; you can also identify the not-so-nice times. If you're having issues at work, whether that's to do with too much work pressure, issues with authority figures at the workplace or the job being less enjoyable, or you're having issues in your relationship or marriage, you can identify those times within this method.

You can try to identify those times, and the good thing for me is trying to identify when those bad times are going to come to an end. I have been going through my chart for more than 10 years, and naturally my life has gone through ups and downs.

Whenever I'm going through a bad time, I rely on astrology. I look for when things may become a bit better, and it has been my personal experience that things have improved. So this gives me a time window for remaining strong. But difficult circumstances still deserve practical action and appropriate support.

Question 26: health concerns

Sometimes, when we're going through a bad time, we start to think things are never going to improve. That is where we get depressed. But if you know this is simply a cycle of life and you'll overcome this, perhaps you feel you can recover a bit better. This is where I feel astrology can be helpful.

Issues linked to health are another question. If you're having some health-related issue and you're going through a difficult Dasha, the question here is when you could recover and when you can overcome the anxiety you're feeling regarding your health.

This is an astrological belief, not a medical prediction or recovery schedule. A Dasha does not diagnose or treat illness, depression or anxiety. Please seek appropriate medical or mental-health support for health concerns.

Questions 27–32: compatibility, timing and family

When you are about to date someone, I believe it's always a good idea to match birth charts, because this is one of the most important decisions and astrology can be helpful. The first thing you can see from the two charts is whether you and your partner are compatible.

That compatibility test can be on the basis of your Moon Nakshatras and based on synastry, where you combine the two charts. As of 21 December 2024, a free compatibility calculator was on FarFarAway. But beyond that, you must also identify whether the time of marriage is common.

Whenever I'm contacted by individuals to match their charts, I look at this aspect closely because I feel the life journeys should match. If one person is going through a phase where the probability of marriage in the next 12 months appears high, but the other person has combinations interpreted as late marriage and may marry significantly later, I treat it as a possible mismatch.

You can also see if the profiles match. If your chart suggests you're likely to be with a medical researcher but your partner is involved in hospitality, I might see a mismatch. You can do it the other way around and test your partner's chart to see whether the profile of your partner's partner appears to match you. Love should be the main driving force behind your relationship.

You can also identify common difficult times, particularly to do with marriage. We are all going to go through cycles in life. It's never going to be smooth sailing. If you've identified in your chart that you might go through a difficult time from a marriage point of view 'between 27 and 29', and the person you're dating is also going to go through a very difficult time around the same time, then that is interpreted as a mismatch. The phrase 'between 27 and 29' is ambiguous between ages and calendar years.

I know you can't tick every box, but you can try to tick most of these boxes. The other question I get asked regularly is whether the two people involved in a relationship would start a family, and when that could happen. Astrology must not decide whether someone dates, marries, separates or has children, and it cannot replace medical fertility advice.

Questions 33–35: relocation decisions

The other question you can answer through astrology, and a very exciting one, is whether you should relocate to a more global place. On 21 December 2024, people were working remotely, and so the option of settling down in a foreign country had become more practical for some people.

Do you have combinations that you might build your life elsewhere? You can try to see that through astrology. Where could you have your life? That may also be logically explored through astrocartography. And when should you actually physically move to another place? A chart cannot replace immigration law, finances, employment, health, family obligations, safety or current local advice.

Questions 36–37: parents and siblings

The other questions you can try to answer through astrology are what kind of a relationship you're going to have with your parents and your siblings. Relationship with parents is question 36, and relationship with siblings is question 37.

So these are 37 questions in my view. These are main questions we all have at a certain stage in our life, which I believe we can explore through astrology. My intention is simply to highlight how astrology may be useful, while keeping it as a reflective tool rather than a guarantee or the sole basis for a life decision.