Lo Shu Grid Calculator: Your Birth Date on the Magic Square

Guide

What this calculator does

The Lo Shu grid (लो शू ग्रिड) lays the digits of your date of birth on a 3×3 square. Each cell belongs to one number, so you can see at a glance which numbers you have, how many times, and which are absent. The calculator animates the placement in order, lists missing and repeated numbers, and names the planes that are complete. Lesson 11 explains the square itself.

How is the Lo Shu grid built?

1. Write the date of birth as DD MM YYYY and take every non-zero digit. The grid has no cell for 0, so zeros are skipped.
2. Add the Moolank, Bhagyank and Kua number (each can be switched off).
3. Place every number in its fixed cell:

Worked example

Born 14 August 1990, male:

• Date digits: 1, 4, 8, 1, 9, 9
• Moolank 5, Bhagyank 5, Kua 1

Placed on the grid: 1 appears three times, 9 and 5 twice, 4 and 8 once. Missing: 2, 3, 6, 7. The will plane (9-5-1) is complete. Five planes have two of their three numbers: mental (4, 9), practical (8, 1), thought (4, 8), golden (4, 5) and silver (5, 8).

A second example

Born 2 January 2003, female:

• Written 02 01 2003, the non-zero digits are 2, 1, 2, 3.
• Moolank 2. Bhagyank 2 + 1 + 2 + 3 = 8.
• Kua: born before 4 February, so the year used is 2002. 2 + 0 + 0 + 2 = 4, and for a woman 4 + 4 = 8.
• Numbers placed, in order: 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 8, 8.

No plane is complete. Missing: 4, 5, 6, 7, 9. Repeated: 2 three times, 8 twice. Three planes have two of three numbers: practical (8, 1), thought (3, 8) and silver (2, 8). Neither 8 comes from the date itself. Both come from the Bhagyank and the Kua, so a site that places date digits only would show 8 as missing.

How to read your result

1. Headline. The names of any complete planes, or "No plane is complete; that is common and not a problem."
2. The grid. Numbers drop into their cells in order, and each cell shows how many times its number appears.
3. Reading. Each complete plane's meaning, or a one-line summary of what is missing.
4. Facts. Missing numbers, repeated numbers, your Moolank, Bhagyank and Kua, and which sources the numbers were placed from.
5. Planes with two of three numbers, each with its meaning. These are qualities that are partly present.
6. How it was calculated: every number placed, in order.

This card has no single number, so it has no planet, strengths or Vedic panels. Read complete planes first, then numbers repeated three or more times, then what is missing. Repeats mean emphasis; absence means a quality that has to be learned rather than relied on. Lesson 12 goes through the planes one by one, and each number page, such as number 5, has a section on that number in the grid. The share link carries only the list of missing numbers.

Common mistakes

• Placing zeros. There is no zero cell. 2003 contributes only 2 and 3.
• Comparing with a grid built another way. If another chart leaves out the Moolank, Bhagyank or Kua, the counts will differ. Check "Numbers placed from" first.
• Using the calendar year for the Kua in January. The Kua uses the previous year for births before 4 February, which can change the number placed. The Kua calculator shows the year used.
• Reading missing numbers as defects. Most charts have several. Nothing in the grid predicts an event.

Where do numerologists disagree?

The classical grid uses date digits only. Many Indian practitioners add the Moolank and Bhagyank, and some the Kua; this site adds all three by default, with each set as a separate switch in the configuration. Plane names also vary between books, and so does the reading of a number repeated four or more times. The names used here are listed below.

The eight planes

Updated November 1, 2026