r/vedicastrology rules, stats, and what to post

This is a community for people who study vedic astrology and want specific questions answered about a real chart. The public description is blunt: it is for specific questions and vedic charts, not general readings, not articles or videos, and not any form of client solicitation. The people posting are mostly chart owners asking about one part of their life, like career or marriage, and astrologers who volunteer their time to read those charts. The rules make clear that astrologers here give their time freely, so posts are expected to respect that effort by being focused and complete. This is a help and study space, not a content feed or a marketplace.

The rule that decides everything for a marketer is “Rule 8 : No advertising”, which bans linking your own article, video, site, discord, book group, or selling services, and bans posts or comments from any account used for selling, even with no link in the post. “Rule 13: don't ask for recommendations for full reads” extends this by banning offers of free readings, AMAs, interviews, and any solicitation of clients or subscribers including through PM or DM. “Rule 1 : Post Instructions” requires a specific question about one subject with a sidereal chart that has degrees, so a vague or general post is removed. “Rule 3 : banned topics and comments” removes articles and engagement content, bans AI generated content, allows only images of charts, and lists many banned topics. “Rule 2 : Required data for chart drawing” requires full birth details in the top comment and forbids charts of newborns or children. “Rule 11 : no surveys or data collection” stops anyone from using members as guinea pigs for research or product learning. “Rule 4 : Link for chart drawing” is the only place links are safe, since it names the approved chart drawing tools. “Rule 6: do not chase mods or other posters for reads” bans tagging people, begging, and spamming your chart in others' posts. “Rule 15: Search the subreddit, Read the FAQ, RULES, and STICKIES. Many questions are often repeated.” asks you to search and read the FAQ before posting so you do not overshadow others.

Honestly, there is almost no marketing lane here, and that is fine. The only post that survives is a genuine, personal one. If you have a real interest in vedic astrology, you can post your own D1 rashi chart as an image with degrees visible, put your full birth details in the top comment, and ask one specific question about one subject like career. That is it. If you run a product in this space, the respectful play is to participate as a person, answer nothing commercially, and never link out. Any value you get comes from learning how real people ask astrologers for help, not from posting about your work.

The fastest way to get banned is anything commercial. Do not link your own article, video, site, discord, or book, do not offer free readings, do not run an AMA or interview, and do not post or comment from an account that sells readings anywhere, because Rule 8 bans those accounts even when the post itself has no link. Do not solicit clients through PM or DM either, since Rule 13 covers that and repeat offenders get banned. Do not post a general reading request or a synastry question, because Rule 1 calls those bad posts. Do not touch any topic on the banned list in Rule 3, which includes things like sade sati, death, divorce, exams, and depression, and do not post AI generated content. Do not post a divisional chart without the main D1 rashi chart, because Rule 12 removes those. Do not ask for D9 or D10 charts or a different chart style in comments, because Rule 5 treats that as derailing and spam. Do not tag moderators or other posters or beg for reads, because Rule 6 says bans follow. Do not mix astrology systems like tropical with vedic or jaimini terms with parashara, because Rule 14 removes those posts. Do not survey members or collect their data, because Rule 11 forbids it. And do not argue that astrology is fake, because Rule 7 removes that and bans repeat offenders.

What strikes me most is that this community bans AI generated content outright, which tells you the regulars value a human reading their chart more than anything else. The rules also read like they were written after a lot of cleanups, with mutes and bans promised for rule breakers, so the margin for a marketer here is close to zero. My honest read is that the only safe move is to participate as a genuine person with a real chart question, and leave your product completely out of it.