A map is an act of compression. It sets down what has been observed, at a certain scale, for a certain purpose. It is useful precisely because it is not the territory.
The same restraint belongs to a Kundali. Rashi, Lagna, lordships, Nakshatra, Varga, Dasha, transit — each lens illuminates a dimension of a question. None of them exhausts the person asking it.
A map does not remove the mountain. It tells you the mountain is there.
When a consultation is treated as a demand for certainty, both parties are diminished: the Jyotishi begins to perform omniscience, and the Jataka begins to surrender agency. Neither is Jyotish.
Orientation is the more honest offering. Where do you stand, what kind of ground is this, and where might the next step reasonably be placed.