Yoga · Modern source
Budha-Aditya Yoga
The Sun and Mercury in one sign, which counts only when Mercury escapes combustion.
Also written: Budhaditya Yoga, Budh Aditya Yog
- Type
- Yoga
- Planets
- The Sun and Mercury
- Source tier
- Modern
- How common
- 51.3% of charts
- Source
- A modern name for the Sun–Mercury conjunction
How it forms
The Sun and Mercury share a sign. Because Mercury is never more than about 28° from the Sun, this happens in roughly half of all charts, so the engine gives the full reading only when Mercury is outside its combustion orb: more than 14° from the Sun, or 12° when Mercury is retrograde.
What it gives
Mercury clear of the Sun. Persuasive intelligence that succeeds in administration, analysis, accounts or government work.
Mercury combust. Persuasive intelligence that succeeds in administration, analysis, accounts or government work. With Mercury deeply combust, the intellect tends to serve a superior’s agenda at first, and you must work to find your own voice.
What weakens it
Each of these makes the yoga weaker without removing it. The tag says how established the rule is.
- Mercury is combust, within 14° of the Sun (12° if retrograde)Classical
How common is it?
We cast 20,000 charts with this site's engine, for random birth times and places between 1940 and 2010, and counted. Budha-Aditya Yoga appeared in 51.3% of them: about five charts in ten. It held in full, with none of its weakening conditions, in 19.7%; in the rest it was present in a weaker form.
A rule that appears in about five charts in ten cannot mark anyone out on its own. What matters is its strength, and whether anything in the chart cancels it, which is why the engine grades each one rather than simply reporting it.
Where this rule comes from
Mercury is never more than about 28° from the Sun, so this conjunction is very common; it is only meaningful when Mercury is outside its combustion orb.
Is it in your chart?
Your free kundli lists every yoga and dosha the engine finds, why each applies, and anything that weakens or cancels it.
Cast your kundliRelated
- Bhadra YogaOne of the five Pancha Mahapurusha yogas: Mercury in its own or exaltation sign, in a kendra.
- Saraswati YogaThe three benefics in strong houses: a gift for learning, music and speech.
- Veshi, Vashi & Ubhayachari YogaPlanets in the signs either side of the Sun, the solar counterpart of the Moon’s Sunapha group.