Kundli Yoga List: How Often the Sky Forms Each One

What a Yoga Is, as This List Uses the Word

In jyotisha a yoga (योग) is a named combination: a rule about which signs or houses certain grahas occupy, counted from the lagna, from the Moon, from the Sun or from each other. A dosha is the same kind of rule under a name that warns. Astrologers in the Parashari tradition read hundreds of them; this list holds the ones the site has worked out from its own sign and ingress tables, each with its own page.

The figures below are not a verdict on any chart. Each is the share of clock time in a calendar year, measured on the DE421 ingress table, in which the sky meets a yoga’s bare sign condition. That answers a question the usual lists skip: how ordinary is this combination? A rule the sky meets nearly half the time cannot single a chart out, which is why the classical authors pile extra conditions and cancellations onto it. Those variants are on each yoga’s page.

Yogas Counted From the Moon

These need no birth time beyond the Moon’s sign. For the Moon’s neighbours, the grahas that count are Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn; the Sun, Rahu and Ketu are left out, as the usual Parashari statement of the rule leaves them out.

Sunapha, Anapha, Durudhara and bare Kemadruma split every hour between them, so their four shares add to 100% in each year. Bare Kemadruma, at 47% of 2026 and 43.5% of 2027, is the largest Moon-based figure in both years. That is the strongest case in the list for reading the cancellations before reading the name. If you do not know your Moon sign, the Moon sign calculator finds it from your birth details.

Benefics and Malefics Around the Moon

A second group of Moon-based rules asks not whether a graha stands near the Moon but which kind. The yoga lists count Mercury, Jupiter and Venus as the benefics here, although the site’s planet table describes Mercury as neutral, taking on its company. For Papakartari the malefics are the Sun, Mars, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu, so this group, unlike the one above, does count the Sun and the nodes.

The two “full” rows, which need all three benefics inside a band of houses, are each met only 6.7% and 5.2% of 2026. Mercury and Venus never stray far from the Sun, so both can stand in the same band only when the Sun is close to it, and Jupiter has to be there at the same time. Each page sets out the partial forms and the version counted from the lagna.

Yogas Counted From the Sun

The same five grahas count here. The Moon is left out of the Sun’s flanking yogas, and so are Rahu and Ketu.

Mercury and Venus never get far from the Sun, so one of them is often in the sign beside it; the Veshi, Vasi and Ubhayachari page measures how much of each share they account for. Budhaditya, the Sun with Mercury in the same sign, is the commonest of the four in both years.

Two Grahas in One Sign

Two of these, Guru Chandal and Shrapit, are at zero for both years. Jupiter and Saturn spend 2026–2028 in signs that Rahu never reaches in that span, so a birth in those years cannot carry either one in the one-sign form. Rows with Rahu or Ketu use the mean node, whose sign changes the panchang can only date to within a day; their pages give the dates by the day and say so. For when a graha and a node shared a sign, and for how long, see the Rahu-Ketu transit page.

Yogas Counted From the Lagna

The five Mahapurusha yogas need a graha in its own or exaltation sign and in a kendra from the lagna, so they depend on the birth time. The sky can only say how many days each graha spends in its qualifying signs; the lagna then decides whether that sign is a kendra. Out of the 1,096 days of the 2026–2028 table:

• Ruchaka (Mars): 198 days in a qualifying sign
• Bhadra (Mercury): 260 days in a qualifying sign
• Hamsa (Jupiter): 303 days in a qualifying sign
• Malavya (Venus): 403 days in a qualifying sign
• Shasha (Saturn): 0 days in a qualifying sign

Saturn has none: it is in Pisces and Aries throughout, so Shasha needs a birth outside these years. The five are compared on the Pancha Mahapurusha page.

Three more rules are about which houses a graha rules, which the lagna alone settles. They have no sky share at all: the same lagna always gives the same lords. Their pages tabulate all twelve lagnas: Vipreet Raja yoga (lords of the 6th, 8th and 12th), Kendra-trikona Raja yoga and the yogakaraka, and Kendradhipati dosha. Two more join a lordship to the sky: Dharma-Karmadhipati yoga dates the stretches in which the lords of the 9th and 10th meet, lagna by lagna, and Saraswati yoga measures, for each lagna, how much of each year puts Jupiter, Venus and Mercury in its kendras, trikonas or 2nd. Your lagna is on the ascendant calculator.

Dignity, Exchange and Distance

Some combinations are about a graha’s sign or about the distance between two grahas rather than about sharing a sign. Exalted planets lists each graha’s exaltation sign and its spells there; Neecha Bhanga Raja yoga does the same for debilitation and sets out the cancellation rules; Parivartan yoga covers two grahas in each other’s signs. The news columns’ Shadashtak (6th and 8th) and Samsaptak (7th) are distances between two transiting grahas, dated on their pages.

Why There Is No “Best Yoga” Here

A ranking of yogas by what they give would need a measured outcome for each, and there is none to read off. What can be measured is frequency, and frequency already changes how a yoga reads: the commoner a bare condition, the more of its meaning rests on the extra conditions, the house it falls in from the lagna, and the dasha that is running. Older posts on this site discuss yogas in that wider frame, for example Dhan yoga and Kaal Sarp dosh, and the eclipse-named combinations are in Grahan dosh.