How common is Raja Yoga?

In 20,000 randomly cast charts it appeared in 86.1%, about nine charts in ten, and held in full in 25.7%.

Is Raja Yoga in the classical texts?

Its source is classical: stated in the foundational texts, such as Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra and Brihat Jataka. The rule as checked here comes from BPHS ch. 39 (Santhanam) / 41 (Sharma); Laghu Parashari; Uttara Kalamrita 4.3–4.

What weakens Raja Yoga?

One of the planets is debilitated; one of the planets is combust; one of the planets also rules the 8th or 12th house; neither planet connects with the ascendant (by ruling it, sitting in it or aspecting it).

How do I know if I have Raja Yoga?

Cast your free kundli on this site. The reading lists every yoga and dosha found in your chart, why it applies, and anything that weakens or cancels it.

Yoga · Classical source

Raja Yoga

The classical yoga of rising status: a kendra lord and a trikona lord joined together.

Also written: Kendra Trikona Raja Yoga, Rajyoga

Type: Yoga
Planets: The lords of a kendra and a trikona
Source tier: Classical
How common: 86.1% of charts
Source: BPHS ch. 39 (Santhanam) / 41 (Sharma); Laghu Parashari; Uttara Kalamrita 4.3–4

How it forms

The lord of a kendra (the 1st, 4th, 7th or 10th house) and the lord of a trikona (the 1st, 5th or 9th) are linked. They must be two different planets, and the link is one of three: they share a sign, they aspect each other, or each sits in the other’s sign.

The kendras stand for effort and the trikonas for fortune, so the yoga joins the two. The more pairs a chart has, the stronger the engine grades it.

What it gives

The classical formula for rising status: effort (the kendra) meets grace (the trikona), so your work is rewarded with position and recognition. The dasha of either planet typically brings promotion or a successful venture, and their strength decides the scale.

What weakens it

Each of these makes the yoga weaker without removing it. The tag says how established the rule is.

One of the planets is debilitatedClassical
One of the planets is combustClassical
One of the planets also rules the 8th or 12th houseLater classical
Neither planet connects with the ascendant (by ruling it, sitting in it or aspecting it)Later 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. Raja Yoga appeared in 86.1% of them: about nine charts in ten. It held in full, with none of its weakening conditions, in 25.7%; in the rest it was present in a weaker form.

A rule that appears in about nine 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.

Is it in your chart?

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