Nabhasa Sankhya Yoga: Kedar, Shool, Yuga, Gola Explained

The Nabhasa Family (नाभस योग)

Nabhasa yogas are named for the sky (nabhas) because they describe the pattern the grahas make across the zodiac rather than any one graha’s strength. Varahamihira’s Brihat Jataka lists thirty-two of them in four groups: three Ashraya yogas, two Dala yogas, twenty Akriti (shape) yogas and seven Sankhya (number) yogas. The seven grahas from the Sun to Saturn are counted, the Moon among them; Rahu and Ketu are not.

Most of the family is built on houses counted from the lagna, so it needs a birth time. The Sankhya group does not. It asks one question, how many different signs the seven grahas are spread across, and gives each answer from one to seven a name. Kedar yog is the answer four.

The Seven Counts

The shares are fractions of clock time in each calendar year, measured at every sign change of all seven grahas in the site’s ingress table. They describe the sky, not the number of people born under each yoga. The literal senses are what the words mean in Sanskrit; the readings the texts build on each yoga are not given here.

Paasha and Kedara Are the Usual Ones

In each of the three years, five occupied signs (Paasha) is the most common state of the sky, at 41.2% of 2027. Kedara, four signs, comes second in every year and takes 27.5% of 2027, a little over a quarter, with Daama, six signs, close behind it that year at 24.3%. Between them Paasha and Kedara cover most of every year. So a Kedar yog in a birth chart is an ordinary configuration rather than a rare one, which is worth knowing before reading anything into the name.

The spread is uneven because the grahas are not independent. Mercury and Venus are never far from the Sun, so those three never take up more than three signs between them, and the remaining four have to do the spreading. A seven-sign Vallaki needs every one of them in a different sign, the Sun, Mercury and Venus included, and so it is rare: 3.6% of 2027, in 4 short stretches, the longest 6 days from 23 May 2027.

Shoola, and Why Yuga and Gola Never Appear

Shoola needs all seven packed into three signs. It holds 3.4% of 2027, in stretches of a few days at most, the first from 3 April 2027 with every graha in Cancer, Aquarius and Pisces:

Yuga, all seven in two signs, and Gola, all seven in one, do not occur at any hour of 2026, 2027 or 2028. With the Sun’s group, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all to fit in, two signs are never enough anywhere in the table. For a birth in these three years, a chart said to show either one is worth checking against its own planetary positions.

Searches for “shool yog me janme log” are usually about something else with the same name. Shula is also the ninth of the twenty-seven nitya yogas of the panchang, the yoga of the day computed from the Sun and Moon, and its dates are on the Shula yoga panchang page. The Nabhasa Shoola on this page is a count of signs and has nothing to do with it.

The Moon Usually Decides the Count

The count changes 89 times in 2027, and 61 of those changes happen at a moment the Moon enters a new sign, roughly two in every three. The slower grahas set the background; the Moon, a little over two days in each sign, moves the count up or down by one as it passes in and out of the signs the others occupy. For a birth chart this means the sankhya yoga can depend on the birth time only on a day when the Moon, or less often another graha, changes sign. On other days anyone born on the same date shares it, which is also why the yoga survives in a chart drawn without a birth time.

Rajju, Musala, Nala: The Other Sign-Only Test

The three Ashraya yogas are the other part of the family that needs no lagna. They ask whether all seven grahas sit in one kind of sign: all in movable (chara) signs is Rajju, all in fixed (sthira) signs Musala, all in dual (dvisvabhava) signs Nala. Across the table, Rajju and Musala never form. Nala forms twice, from 2 January 2026 to 4 January 2026 and from 8 January 2026 to 11 January 2026, with Sun, Mars, Mercury and Venus together in Sagittarius, Jupiter in Gemini and Saturn in Pisces, while the Moon passed through a dual sign. The same three sign kinds set the badhaka house on the badhakesh page.

Using It

Finding your own sankhya yoga takes nothing more than the chart: write down the sign of each of the seven grahas, ignore Rahu and Ketu and the lagna, and count the distinct signs. What the classical chapters say each yoga signifies is a matter for the texts and for whoever reads the whole chart; the count on its own, as the shares above show, is shared by a large part of everyone born in a given year. The more selective yogas, and how often each forms, are compared in the kundli yoga list, and the yogas built on the grahas either side of the Moon are on the Sunapha, Anapha and Durudhara page.