Yogi Planet and Yogi Point: Read It Off the Birth Yoga

Yogi Planet Meaning (योगी ग्रह)

The yogi point is a sensitive degree built from two longitudes: add the sidereal Sun to the sidereal Moon, then add 93°20′. The nakshatra holding that degree is the yogi nakshatra, its Vimshottari lord is the yogi planet, and the lord of the sign holding it is called the sahayogi, or duplicate yogi. This is the rule as modern Parashari teachers give it; this page traces it to that modern literature and does not attribute it to Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra. Those teachers label the yogi the favourable graha of a chart and the avayogi the obstructing one. The page reports the two labels, works the arithmetic, and goes no further.

Seven Nakshatras Past the Nitya Yoga

The same sum, Sun plus Moon, already sits on every panchang. The nitya yoga, one of the five limbs, is that sum divided into 27 equal arcs of 13°20′, numbered from Vishkambha to Vaidhriti. The yogi rule adds 93°20′, and 93°20′ is exactly seven times 13°20′. Adding it therefore moves the sum forward by seven whole arcs and never splits one. Because the nakshatras use the same 27 arcs from the same starting point, the yogi nakshatra is always the one numbered 7 past the yoga’s number, wrapping round after Revati: a yoga numbered n (Vishkambha as 1) gives the nakshatra numbered n + 7, less 27 when the result runs past 27.

The page checks this rather than asserting it. Working in whole arcminutes, it tests every one of the 21,600 arcminute values the sum can take, and a fixed grid of separate Sun and Moon positions on top, 3,29,368 cases in all, with no exception. The same shift also preserves position inside the arc: however far the sum has run into its yoga, the yogi point has run exactly that far into its nakshatra. So anyone who knows the birth yoga already knows the yogi nakshatra and the yogi planet, without the two degrees. The yoga must be the nirayana one that Indian panchangs print; a sum of tropical longitudes would land on a different yoga.

Yogi Planet Calculator: All 27 Yogas

Find the birth yoga, read across. The last column gives the sign the yogi point can occupy and that sign’s lord; where the yogi nakshatra crosses a sign boundary, it gives the Sun-plus-Moon figure at which the sign changes.

Each of the nine Vimshottari lords turns up as the yogi planet for exactly three yogas, and down the column the lords follow the Vimshottari sequence itself, starting from Saturn at Vishkambha, then Mercury, then Ketu, and repeating every nine rows. To find the birth yoga, open the day on the panchang or use the nakshatra finder for the Moon and add the Sun yourself. The candidates are simply the nine lords whose periods make up the Vimshottari dasha, though which one is the yogi has nothing to do with the period running at any time.

A Worked Example

Take a Sun at Libra 10°10′ and a Moon at Gemini 25°30′, both sidereal, chosen for the arithmetic and not taken from anyone’s chart.

• Sun plus Moon: 190°10′ + 85°30′ = 275°40′, which is Capricorn 5°40′.
• Yoga: 275°40′ lies between 266°40′ and 280°00′, the 21st arc, so the birth yoga is Siddha.
• Yogi point: 275°40′ + 93°20′ = 369°00′; taking away a full circle leaves 9°00′, which is Aries 9°00′.
• Yogi nakshatra: Aries 9°00′ is inside Ashwini, the first nakshatra. The shortcut agrees: 21 + 7 = 28, less 27 gives 1.
• Yogi planet: Ashwini’s lord, Ketu. Sahayogi: the lord of Aries, Mars.

The sum sits 9°00′ into Siddha, and the yogi point sits the same 9°00′ into Ashwini. The example also shows the wrap: the total passed 360°00′, and the 21st yoga led to the first nakshatra.

The Sahayogi Sometimes Needs the Degree

A sign is 30°00′ and a nakshatra 13°20′, so some nakshatras begin in one sign and end in the next. When the yogi nakshatra is one of those, the yoga alone does not settle which sign the yogi point is in, and so it does not settle the sahayogi. Nine yogas lead to a straddling nakshatra: Shobhana (Uttara Phalguni), Sukarma (Chitra), Shula (Vishakha), Harshana (Uttara Ashadha), Siddhi (Dhanishta), Variyan (Purva Bhadrapada), Shubha (Krittika), Brahma (Mrigashira) and Vaidhriti (Punarvasu). In one of them, Siddhi, the two signs are Capricorn and Aquarius, both ruled by Saturn, so nothing changes. That leaves eight yogas where the sahayogi depends on the exact sum, and 19 where the yoga fixes it.

Take a Shobhana yoga, which covers sums from 53°20′ to 66°40′. Its yogi nakshatra is Uttara Phalguni, which begins in Leo and ends in Virgo. A sum below 56°40′ puts the yogi point in Leo, with the Sun as sahayogi; from 56°40′ on it is in Virgo, with Mercury. That first case is one of only two places on the circle where the yogi planet and the sahayogi are the same graha: the Leo part of Uttara Phalguni, both the Sun, and the Pisces part of Purva Bhadrapada, both Jupiter.

Rahu or Ketu as the Yogi Planet

The nodes rule three nakshatras each in the Vimshottari scheme, so each is the yogi planet for three yogas like any other lord. Ketu is the yogi for an Ayushman yoga (Magha), a Dhruva yoga (Mula) or a Siddha yoga (Ashwini). Rahu is the yogi for a Dhriti yoga (Swati), a Vyatipata yoga (Shatabhisha) or an Indra yoga (Ardra). Within each node’s set the yogas are nine apart, as its nakshatras are. A node rules no sign in the Parashari sign-lord table, so while a node can be the yogi, the sahayogi is always one of the seven sign lords.

The Panchang Prints the Yoga at Sunrise

A daily panchang names the yoga in force at sunrise, and a birth later in the day can fall in the next one. The committed daily table on this site, 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2027 for New Delhi, shows how often that matters. Of its 729 steps from one sunrise to the next, the yoga moved on by one in 674, stayed the same in 5, and jumped by two in 50, meaning a whole yoga began and ended between sunrises without ever being the sunrise yoga. Averaged over the table the yoga advanced by more than one a day, so on average the sum gains a little more than 13°20′ a day and a yoga lasts a little under one. For the yogi planet the yoga that counts is the one at the birth moment, which need not be the one printed beside the date.

Avayogi Planet and Avayogi Nakshatra: Two Rules

Published accounts of the avayogi do not agree on how to find it. One counts the 6th nakshatra from the yogi nakshatra, with the yogi nakshatra itself counted as the first. The other adds 186°40′ to the yogi point and takes the nakshatra it lands in; 186°40′ is fourteen nakshatras exactly. The first moves 5 nakshatras on and the second 14, so they never name the same nakshatra. In the worked example, the first rule gives Ardra and the second gives Libra 15°40′, in Swati.

The two nakshatras are always nine apart, and Vimshottari lords repeat every nine, so both rules end on the same lord (Rahu in the example) for every yoga, while disagreeing on the avayogi nakshatra. That agreement rests on counting inclusively; a reader who counts the 6th nakshatra after the yogi nakshatra, leaving it out, gets a different lord under the first rule. This page does not choose between the rules and does not print an avayogi table.

What This Page Does Not Say

It does not say what a yogi, sahayogi or avayogi planet brings to a chart, whether Rahu or Ketu as yogi is better or worse than another graha, or what anyone should do about any of them. The teachers who use the yogi read it together with the graha’s sign, house, strength and the rest of the chart, none of which a table keyed on the yoga can supply. The page gives no date or age for anything in a life and no remedy, and it does not apply any of the substitution rules some practitioners use when the yogi is a node. A birth close to the end of a yoga needs an accurate birth time to settle which row of the table applies. In Hindi: योगी ग्रह और योगी बिंदु: जन्म के योग से पढ़ें.