One in four questions people ask an AI astrologer is about “when”

Between 20 April and 1 October 2026, people typed 10,432 questions to GrahAI’s AI astrologer. Marriage comes up in nearly three questions in ten and career in one in five — and one question in four asks not what will happen, but when.

“When” is the question

25.2% of all questions ask about timing — when, which year, at what age, how long, or kab and kab tak. The share is higher inside the two subjects people raise most: 34.8% of marriage questions and 38.6% of career questions are timing questions.

Within career, 14.8% of questions mention government jobs (sarkari naukri) or the recruitment exams named for them — UPSC, SSC, PSC, bank PO and railway. Within marriage, 10.8% weigh a love marriage against an arranged one.

Hindi, typed in English letters

95.5% of questions were typed in the Latin alphabet. Among people using GrahAI in Hindi, 64.3% still typed their question in Roman script rather than Devanagari. Tamil and Telugu users split differently: 60.1% of questions from the Tamil interface were typed in Tamil script, and 46.5% from the Telugu interface in Telugu script.

Short questions, often just one

The median question is eight words long. Among signed-in users, 38.8% asked exactly one question in the period.

How the analysis was done

• Data: every message sent to GrahAI’s AI astrologer from 20 April to 1 October 2026, excluding GrahAI’s own internal and test accounts — 16,729 messages.
• Typed questions only: 6,297 messages (37.6%) were one of 23 suggestion buttons or pre-filled prompts — text sent word-for-word by 20 or more different people. They were removed, leaving 10,432 questions people wrote themselves.
• Topics: each question was matched against fixed keyword lists in English and common Hinglish (shaadi, naukri, padhai and so on) — the same lists GrahAI’s chat uses to recognise a subject. No AI model classified the questions, and no person read them.
• Timing: when, which year, what age, how long, by when, till when, kab, kab tak, kitne saal and their Devanagari forms.
• Script: each question was classified by the alphabet it was typed in; the interface language is the one the person had selected.
• Privacy: no question is quoted in this article. Every figure is a count across hundreds or thousands of messages.

Limitations

• These are GrahAI users, mostly in India — not a sample of everyone who consults astrology.
• Usage grew quickly: 63% of the questions arrived in September 2026, so the mix reflects recent users more than early ones.
• What people ask is shaped by how they arrived. Someone landing from a career page is more likely to ask about career.
• Keyword matching misses questions phrased other ways and is weakest for questions typed in Indian scripts; 39% of questions matched no topic.
• 74% of questions were asked without signing in, so the number of different people cannot be counted; per-person figures cover the 1,281 signed-in users only.
• The script shares for Hindi, Tamil and Telugu rest on 516, 198 and 185 questions.

Questions about timing are answered from a chart’s dasha periods and transits; GrahAI’s marriage and career pages compute both from a date of birth.