Which Yogas Are in My Chart

Most charts have several. Across 50,000 birth charts computed for this page, 99.0% carried at least one of the thirteen classical yogas this page covers, and the chart in the middle of that distribution carried four of them. A yoga is a named combination of planets that the Vedic tradition reads as a single unit, with its own name and its own meaning, and the count runs high because the commonest combinations are common by construction rather than by luck.

So the question worth asking is not whether you have one. It is which one, what formed it, and whether the planets that form it are running yet. All three answers need your own birth date, time and place, because each turns on where the planets stood at your birth moment and which sign was climbing over the eastern horizon. What this page settles without them is the rest: what each combination actually tests, how often it occurs in the population, and what a name on its own does not tell you.

How common each combination is

Everything in the table below was measured, not estimated. The population is 50,000 synthetic birth moments: dates drawn uniformly from 1960 to 2005, clock times drawn uniformly across the 24 hours, latitudes from 8N to 32N and longitudes from 70E to 88E, all at Indian Standard Time, all with a known birth time so that the rising sign is real rather than assumed. Positions are Lahiri sidereal and houses are whole-sign, which is how AstroMedha computes every chart. The population is built exactly as the prevalence tests inside AstroMedha's own test suite build theirs, so these figures and the bounds that guard the same detectors in production come from the same kind of population.

At 50,000 charts, each percentage below sits within about 0.4 percentage points of its true value at two standard errors, so treat the first decimal as real and anything past it as noise.

Twelve of the thirteen are below. Neecha Bhanga is a cancellation rather than a formation and has its own section further down.

Four figures outside the table matter more than any single row inside it. Any one of the five Pancha Mahapurusha yogas (Ruchaka, Bhadra, Hamsa, Malavya, Sasa) appears in 35.4% of charts, and 4.6% of charts carry two of them at once. Counting distinct names, the middle chart carries four of the thirteen, 2.2% of charts carry seven or more, the most any single chart carried was nine, and 1.0% carried none.

What that means for a headline

A sentence like "your chart has a Raja Yoga" is true of four people in five. It is accurate and it carries almost no information, in the same way that "this person has a birthday in the first half of the year" is accurate.

What carries information is the detail one level down. Two charts can both carry a Raja Yoga where one is formed by a single planet that rules both an angle and a trine, sitting in the sign it owns, in the 10th house, and the other is formed by two planets that happen to share a sign while both are weak in it. The name is identical. The reading is not. So the useful output of a yoga scan is never the list of names. It is the list of names with the planets, the houses, the degrees and the dignity attached to each, and a scan that gives you only the names has thrown away everything that separated your chart from the other four in five.

The same logic runs the other way for the rare rows. Bhadra Yoga at 5.5% is genuinely uncommon, and the five great-person yogas together are still a one-in-three event rather than the mark of a rare life that the name suggests. A remedy sold on the strength of the name alone is being sold against a condition a third of the population shares.

The thirteen tests, stated plainly

Each entry below says what the combination tests, what input it needs, and where to read about it at length. A test that needs an angle counted from the rising sign needs your birth time; a test that only compares signs does not.

Raja Yoga. An angle is the 1st, 4th, 7th or 10th house; a trine is the 1st, 5th or 9th. The yoga forms when a planet ruling one of the angles and a planet ruling one of the trines sit together in a single sign, or when one planet rules both at once, which is the form called yogakaraka. Needs a birth time. See Raja Yoga.

Dhana Yoga. The wealth houses are the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 9th and 11th. When two or more of their lords occupy the same sign, the money-producing parts of the chart are wired together instead of working separately. Needs a birth time. In the population, 32,154 of these were two-planet groups, 4,911 were three-planet, 370 were four-planet and 19 pulled in five. See Dhana Yoga.

Pancha Mahapurusha. Five separate yogas under one heading, one for each non-luminary planet: Ruchaka for Mars, Bhadra for Mercury, Hamsa for Jupiter, Malavya for Venus, Sasa for Saturn. Each needs its planet either in its own sign, a sign that planet rules, or in its exaltation sign, the sign where the tradition reads it at its strongest, and simultaneously in one of the four angles. A debilitated planet in an angle does not qualify, because the yoga is a claim about strength and debilitation is the other end of that same axis. Needs a birth time. Read Ruchaka, Bhadra, Hamsa, Malavya and Shasha.

Gajakesari Yoga. Jupiter in the 1st, 4th, 7th or 10th sign counted from the Moon. Because it is counted from the Moon and not from the rising sign, it works without a birth time, which is why it is the yoga most often quoted at people who never gave one. A quarter of the cases have Jupiter and the Moon in the same sign, which is the tightest form. See Gaja Kesari Yoga and What Is Gajakesari Yoga.

Budha-Aditya Yoga. Sun and Mercury in the same sign. Mercury never separates from the Sun by more than 27.8 degrees, measured across 3,000 computed charts, so the two share a sign roughly half the time, which is what the 51.5% figure reflects. No birth time needed. See Budha-Aditya Yoga.

Chandra-Mangala Yoga. Moon and Mars in the same sign, read as emotional drive pointed at enterprise. No birth time needed, and at 8.4% it is close to the one-in-twelve you would expect from chance alone. See Chandra-Mangala Yoga.

Parivartana. Two planets each occupying a sign the other rules. Venus in Cancer while the Moon sits in Taurus is a parivartana, because Cancer is the Moon's sign and Taurus is Venus's. The two planets are then tied to each other's business for life. No birth time needed for the exchange itself, though the houses it links do need one. In the population 34.5% of charts had exactly one exchange, 2.3% had two, and 14 charts in 50,000 had three. See Parivartana Yoga.

Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga. A cancellation rather than a formation, covered in its own section below. See Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga and What Is Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga.

Kaal Sarpa. All seven classical planets caught on one side of the axis running between Rahu and Ketu. The full form appears in 7.5% of charts. A near-miss where six are hemmed and the seventh sits right on top of a node adds another 3.7%, and a bare six-and-one split with the odd planet anywhere is not counted here at all, because six of seven planets landing on one side of any axis happens to roughly a quarter of everyone. See Kala Sarpa Yoga or run the free Kaal Sarp check.

Debilitation, and what cancels it

Neecha Bhanga sits apart from the other tests because it is not a combination that forms. It is a combination that undoes one. The starting condition is a debilitated planet, meaning a planet standing in the sign directly opposite the one where the tradition reads it as strongest, and the cancellation asks whether other placements in the chart lift it back to working order.

Debilitation is more common than people expect, and it is not evenly spread. Measured across the same 50,000 charts:

If the planets were scattered at random, every row would read 8.3%. Saturn and Mars run above that and Venus runs well below it, because a planet's orbit is not a random number generator and Venus in particular is pinned near the Sun and so visits some signs more than others. Nearly half of all charts, 47.3%, carry at least one debilitated planet, and 45.3% carry at least one exalted planet, so both conditions are ordinary rather than remarkable.

What the cancellation test asks is whether the debilitated planet's dispositor, the lord of the sign it is sitting in, or the planet that would be exalted in that same sign, is itself standing in one of the angles. When it is, the tradition reads the weakness as convertible: strength arrives later than it does for other people and arrives having been worked for. Because the test involves a second planet's placement rather than the first planet's own, two charts with the same debilitated Saturn can get opposite answers.

One chart, scanned in full

Names and percentages only go so far. Here is the whole output for a single worked example, a sample birth at 18:50 on 3 September 1996 in Kolkata (22.57N, 88.36E, Indian Standard Time). Nothing here is a real person's record; it is a computed chart used to show what the output looks like when the input is complete.

The rising sign is Pisces at 7.94 degrees, in the nakshatra Uttara Bhadrapada. A nakshatra is one of the twenty-seven segments the Moon passes through in a month, and it subdivides a sign more finely than the sign itself does.

Four results come out of that:

Bhadra Yoga. Mercury is in Virgo, the sign it is exalted in, and in the 7th house, which is an angle. Both halves of the Pancha Mahapurusha rule are satisfied, so the yoga is graded strong. Virgo is the one sign in the zodiac that is both a planet's own sign and its exaltation sign, and Mercury is the planet, so this placement qualifies twice over.

Hamsa Yoga. Jupiter is in Sagittarius, a sign it rules, and in the 10th house, which is also an angle. Two of the five great-person yogas in one chart puts this example inside the 4.6% that carry a pair.

Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga. Mars is in Cancer, its debilitation sign, at 2.23 degrees. The planet exalted in Cancer is Jupiter, and Jupiter is standing in the 10th house, an angle, so the cancellation condition is met.

A parivartana between the Moon and Venus. The Moon is in Taurus, which Venus rules, and Venus is in Cancer, which the Moon rules. Each is sitting in the other's house, which ties the 3rd house and the 5th house together for the life of the chart.

What this chart does not have is worth naming too. It carries no Raja Yoga and no Dhana Yoga, the two commonest combinations in the population at 80.4% and 66.1%. Jupiter is in the 8th sign from the Moon rather than the 1st, 4th, 7th or 10th, so no Gajakesari. The Sun is in Leo and Mercury in Virgo, adjacent but not shared, so no Budha-Aditya. Mars sits in the 3rd sign from the Moon rather than in the same one, so no Chandra-Mangala. A chart can carry two of the rarest combinations and miss both of the commonest.

When each one actually runs

A yoga is a standing arrangement. It describes what the chart is capable of, and it says nothing on its own about when that capability shows up. Timing comes from the dasha system, and a dasha is a period of years assigned to one planet in turn, during which that planet's affairs move to the front of the life. The sequence AstroMedha uses is Vimshottari, the 120-year cycle that starts from the exact position of the Moon at birth and runs the nine planets in a fixed order.

For the worked example, the mahadasha ladder, meaning the sequence of major periods, runs like this:

Read the yogas against that ladder and the picture changes. Jupiter carries the Hamsa Yoga, and Jupiter's major period does not open until October 2034. Mercury carries the Bhadra Yoga, and Mercury's does not open until 2069, at age 73. Mars carries the cancelled debilitation, and its period already came and went between 2009 and 2016, from age 13 to age 20.

As of 26 August 2026 this chart is in a Rahu mahadasha that runs to October 2034, with a Mercury antardasha, the sub-period nested inside the major one, running from September 2024 to April 2027, and a Jupiter pratyantar, the third and shortest level of the same nesting, running from July 2026 to November 2026. So both of the strong yogas are live at the smaller scales right now while neither owns the major period, which is the ordinary situation for most people most of the time. A combination whose planet is decades away from its major period describes something the life has not reached yet, so telling someone they have Hamsa Yoga without telling them 2034 leaves out the part they can act on.

How much your birth time matters

The house-based tests move with the rising sign, and the rising sign moves fast. Holding the same date and the same place as the worked example and changing only the clock time, minute by minute across all 1,440 minutes of the day, the ascendant crosses twelve sign boundaries and the answer changes at every one:

Boundaries are to the nearest minute. The example birth at 18:50 sits 23 minutes into a Pisces window that lasts 91 minutes, so it has 68 minutes of margin before the answer changes. The windows are not equal: Pisces is the shortest of the twelve on this date at this latitude at 91 minutes, and Gemini the longest at 137. Every window is longer than half an hour, so a half-hour error in a birth record does not always change the answer. It changes it whenever the recorded minute falls within half an hour of a boundary, and since there are twelve boundaries and every window clears sixty minutes, that is exactly half of the day.

The sign-based tests are far steadier. Over the same 1,440 minutes the Moon changed sign exactly once, at 13:01, which flipped the parivartana in this chart from a Mars-Moon exchange to the Moon-Venus one. So an hour of uncertainty in a birth record is very likely to move the house-based results and unlikely to move the rest. If your birth time is a family estimate rather than a certificate, the Gajakesari, Budha-Aditya, Chandra-Mangala and parivartana answers still stand; the Mahapurusha, Raja and Dhana answers should be treated as one candidate among two or three.

What this page's figures cover, and what they leave out

The thirteen tests above are settled from four things: the sign a planet stands in, the house it falls in, its dignity, meaning its standing in the sign it occupies, and mutual exchange between two planets. Every percentage on this page comes from those. AstroMedha reports a yoga only when the rule can be settled that way, on the principle that a scan which under-reports is more useful than one that hands you a name your chart does not support.

Several well-known combinations turn on other machinery and are not counted in the figures here. Shubha Kartari and Paapa Kartari read the two signs flanking a house. Sunapha, Anapha and Durudhara read the signs on either side of the Moon. Saraswati Yoga reads Mercury, Venus and Jupiter together across a set of houses with a strength condition on Jupiter. Vipreet Raja Yoga reads the lords of the 6th, 8th and 12th landing in each other's houses. Each has its own page:

• Shubha Kartari Yoga and Paapa Kartari Yoga
• Durudhara Yoga, Sunapha Yoga and Anapha Yoga
• Saraswati Yoga
• Vipreet Raja Yoga, and its three named forms Harsha, Sarala and Vimala

Getting the answer for your own chart

Two steps, both free.

The free kundli calculator takes your birth date, time and place and returns the full chart: every planet's sign, degree, house and nakshatra, plus the rising sign. That is the raw material every test on this page runs on, and you can work through the thirteen rules by hand from it if you want to.

A free account runs the scan for you and keeps it. The yoga card on the dashboard lists every combination in your chart with the planets that form it and how strongly it is graded, recomputed from your exact placements rather than looked up from your birth sign. Pair it with the free dasha calculator, which returns your period ladder with dates, and you have both halves of the answer: which combinations you carry, and when their planets take the floor. No payment, and no card.