Astra Yoga
Astra Yoga is a combination described in classical Vedic astrology. Below is how it forms and the results it is said to bring.
Common29%
It appears in about 29 in 100 charts.From 30,000 birth charts calculated for random dates from 1940 to 2025 at places around the world, using the same rules as our Yoga finder.
How it forms
From Lagna
- Condition
- Benefics occupy or aspect the 6th house and the lord of the 6th house, not being combust, is in an auspicious house, in own sign or exalted.
- Source
- Phala Deepika 6/50
- Results
- The person will be capable of conquering very powerful enemies. He/she will be cruel in disposition and arrogant, being quarrelsome, having bruised limbs but a stong body.
Terms used on this page
- House lord
- The planet that rules the sign on a house. "Lord of the 9th" means the ruler of the sign falling in the 9th house.
- Benefic
- Naturally helpful planets: Jupiter, Venus, a waxing Moon, and Mercury when not joined by malefics.
- Exaltation (Uchcha)
- The sign where a planet is strongest: Sun in Aries, Moon in Taurus, Mars in Capricorn, Mercury in Virgo, Jupiter in Cancer, Venus in Pisces, Saturn in Libra. "Deep exaltation" is its exact peak degree.
- Own sign (Swakshetra)
- A sign ruled by the planet itself, such as Mars in Aries or Scorpio. A planet here is comfortable and strong.
- Aspect (Drishti)
- A planet's glance on another house. Every planet aspects the 7th house from itself; Mars also the 4th and 8th, Jupiter the 5th and 9th, Saturn the 3rd and 10th.
- Combustion
- A planet too close to the Sun loses strength; it is "burnt" by the Sun's rays.
Fig. 1How it forms