Nepali Jyotish in New York and New Jersey
About 18,000 Nepalis live in the New York metro area, according to a Pew analysis of 2023 American Community Survey data. It is a city that asks a lot — long hours, small apartments, a subway or a bridge between home and work — and the questions people bring to a Jyotishi here are rarely abstract. They are about a marriage proposal, a job offer, a lease ending, a parent getting older in Nepal.
Jyotish Prakash Basistha has been reading Kundalis since 2007/08 and consults by phone or video from the Canberra region, in Nepali or English. New York’s afternoon and evening are his morning, so a call after work or on a weekend afternoon usually fits without anyone losing sleep.
Call times for New York
New York is 15 hours behind Canberra right now.
The booking page shows his open times in your own time zone.
Today in New York
- Sunrise
- 07:27 AM
- Sunset
- 05:51 PM
- Tithi
- Krishna Shashthi
- Nakshatra
- Punarvasu
When family is half a world away
At home, a Kundali was something the family arranged: the Jyotishi came, or the father went with the cheena. In New York you have to do it yourself, often late at night after a shift, while trying to keep parents in Nepal in the loop. That is a big part of why people call. They want someone who understands both the chart and the situation — a son or daughter abroad, trying to make decisions the family can also live with.
How to book from New York or New Jersey
Choose a time on his profile, give the birth details, and pay online. The session appears in Eastern time on your confirmation, so a 7 o’clock booking means 7 o’clock in New York. If you only have the old cheena with a Nepali date, the date converter turns it into the English date before you book.
Weekday evenings and weekend afternoons are the easiest windows from the East Coast. Very early on a weekday morning in New York can also work, because it is still his evening.
Love marriage, arranged marriage and Kundali matching
In New York the line between love and arranged marriage is often blurred. A couple meets through friends or at work, then the families get involved and someone asks, “Have the Kundalis been matched?” Or the parents suggest a match from Nepal, and the young person here wants to know what the charts really say before agreeing to talk.
Either way, a good match reading goes past the 36-point guna score. It looks at the 7th house in both charts, how Venus and Mars sit, whether a Mangal Dosha is present and whether it is cancelled, and how the coming dashas line up. Families often feel easier when they hear it explained plainly in Nepali.
A crowded city, and still single
It is one of the oddest feelings in New York: surrounded by people, and no one right. Some readers are cheerfully single and ready to mingle and just want to know if the coming year is a good one for meeting someone. Others have been waiting a long time and want to understand when he or she — the love of her life, the love of his life — is likely to appear. The chart shows the stretches when the 7th house and Venus are activated, and the patterns that have made earlier relationships end the way they did.
Relationships under New York pressure
Rent, shift work and a partner who is still waiting on papers can wear down even a strong relationship. Some couples here are also living apart, one in the US and one in Nepal, while a visa is processed. A reading of both charts can show whether the strain belongs to a difficult phase that will pass, and where each of you could meet the other halfway. It is guidance, not a cure.
Career, visas, and renting versus buying
Students on OPT wondering about the next step, workers on H-1B weighing a move, green-card holders thinking about a business — the career question takes many shapes here. So does the home question: keep renting in the city, or move out to New Jersey and buy? Saturn, Jupiter and your dasha show which years favour a big commitment and which ask for patience. A Jyotishi does not replace an immigration lawyer, a mortgage adviser or your own judgement.
Questions people ask
Is there a Nepali Jyotishi I can talk to from New York in Nepali?
Yes. Jyotish Prakash Basistha consults in Nepali or English by phone or video from Australia. Most New York clients call in the afternoon or evening, which is his morning.
Can my family be part of a matching consultation?
Family who are with you can sit in on the same call. Parents in Nepal usually hear it from you afterwards, which is easier when the reading has been explained plainly in Nepali.
Will the booking show in New York time?
Yes. His open times on the booking page, and every booked session, are shown in Eastern time.
What currency are prices in?
US dollars. Prices on his profile are in USD and your card is charged in USD, so what you see before you pay is what appears on your statement.