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Shandha Yoga

Shandha Yoga is a combination described in classical Vedic astrology. The texts give 6 versions of it, each formed differently. It involves the Moon, Venus and Saturn.

Moon · Venus · Saturn
Uncommon2.2%
At least one of its 6 versions appears in about 1 in 45 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.

6 versions

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From Lagna

Variation 1

RARE
Condition
Saturn and Venus in the 8th house or the 10th house without a benefic aspect.
Source
Sambu Hora Prakasha
Results
The person might suffer from sexual impotence.
How common
Rare: about 1 in 105 charts (0.96%)
From Lagna

Variation 2

RARE
Condition
Saturn and Venus in the 8th house or the 10th house without a benefic aspect.
Source
Sambu Hora Prakasha
Results
The person might suffer from sexual frigidity.
How common
Rare: about 1 in 105 charts (0.96%)
From Lagna

Variation 3

UNCOMMON
Condition
Saturn debilitated in the 6th or the 12th house.
Source
Sambu Hora Prakasha
Results
The person might suffer from sexual impotence.
How common
Uncommon: about 1 in 80 charts (1.2%)
From Lagna

Variation 4

UNCOMMON
Condition
Saturn debilitated in the 6th or the 12th house.
Source
Sambu Hora Prakasha
Results
The person might suffer from sexual frigidity.
How common
Uncommon: about 1 in 80 charts (1.2%)
From Lagna

Variation 5

EXCEPTIONALLY RARE
Condition
Venus is in the 7th house receiving an aspect from the Lagna lord in the Lagna, while the 7th house lord is retrograde and Moon accompanied by Saturn.
Source
Sambu Hora Prakasha
Results
The person will carry bad feelings or lack of attraction to his wife and end up getting a mistress or another wife.
How common
Exceptionally rare: about 1 in 14,714 charts (0.0068%)
From Lagna

Variation 6

EXCEPTIONALLY RARE
Condition
Venus is in the 7th house receiving an aspect from the Lagna lord in the Lagna, while the 7th house lord is retrograde and Moon accompanied by Saturn.
Source
Sambu Hora Prakasha
Results
The person will carry bad feelings or lack of attraction to her husband and end up getting a secret lover or a new husband (In the classical text this only applied to a male).
How common
Exceptionally rare: about 1 in 14,714 charts (0.0068%)
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Terms used on this page

Lagna (Ascendant)
The zodiac sign rising on the eastern horizon at the moment of birth. It becomes the 1st house, and every other house is counted from it.
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.
Debilitation (Neecha)
The sign opposite a planet's exaltation, where it is weakest, for example Sun in Libra or Jupiter in Capricorn.
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.
Retrograde
A planet that appears to move backwards from Earth. Classical texts often treat it as strong.
Fig. 1How it forms
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Saturn and Venus in the 8th house or the 10th house without a benefic aspect.A sample chart from our test set (born 1946). Highlighted: Venus, Saturn.Check your chart →