How common is Viparita Raja Yoga?

In 20,000 randomly cast charts it appeared in 50.4%, about five charts in ten, and held in full in 18.1%.

Is Viparita Raja Yoga in the classical texts?

Its source is later classical: from the medieval works that built on them, such as Phaladeepika and Jataka Parijata. The rule as checked here comes from Phaladeepika ch. 6; Uttara Kalamrita 4.22.

What weakens Viparita Raja Yoga?

The planet also rules a kendra or trikona, so its placement in a dusthana harms that good house too; the lord of the ascendant is weak in Shadbala.

How do I know if I have Viparita 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 · Later classical source

Viparita Raja Yoga

Trouble that cancels trouble: the lord of a difficult house placed in another difficult house.

Also written: Vipreet Raj Yoga, Harsha Yoga, Sarala Yoga, Vimala Yoga

Type: Yoga
Planets: The lords of the 6th, 8th and 12th
Source tier: Later classical
How common: 50.4% of charts
Source: Phaladeepika ch. 6; Uttara Kalamrita 4.22

How it forms

The lord of a dusthana, one of the three difficult houses (the 6th, 8th and 12th), sits in a dusthana. Each house gives its own named yoga.

Harsha YogaLater classical
The lord of the 6th in the 6th, 8th or 12th.
You thrive on adversity: rivals tend to undermine themselves, and illness is met with unusual vitality.
In 16.8% of charts
Sarala YogaLater classical
The lord of the 8th in the 6th, 8th or 12th.
Fearless and calm in a crisis, with a long view of life; gains can come through inheritance, insurance or research.
In 16.1% of charts
Vimala YogaLater classical
The lord of the 12th in the 6th, 8th or 12th.
Frugal, independent and honest; you spend wisely and save quietly.
In 17.5% of charts
Own-house formModern
The lord in its own dusthana, such as the 8th lord in the 8th. Modern authors include it; Phaladeepika summaries do not, so it is reported as a modern variant.
In 24.5% of charts

What it gives

Harsha. You thrive on adversity: rivals tend to undermine themselves, and illness is met with unusual vitality.

Sarala. Fearless and calm in a crisis, with a long view of life; gains can come through inheritance, insurance or research.

Vimala. Frugal, independent and honest; you spend wisely and save quietly.

What weakens it

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

The planet also rules a kendra or trikona, so its placement in a dusthana harms that good house tooLater classical
The lord of the ascendant is weak in ShadbalaLater 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. Viparita Raja Yoga appeared in 50.4% of them: about five charts in ten. It held in full, with none of its weakening conditions, in 18.1%; 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.

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