The Jyotiṣa Journal — Karma Jyotisha

Yoga and Karaṇa: The Two Panchāṅga Limbs Nobody Explains

The nitya yoga is the only panchāṅga limb built from a sum of longitudes, and the karaṇa is half a tithi. Here is how both are computed and

Viparīta Rāja Yoga is built entirely out of the 6th, 8th and 12th houses, the exact placements readers are told to fear. Here is the actual

Classical gochara pairs every favourable transit house with a vedha house. Occupy the pair and the result is obstructed, which most modern t

Vargottama has a fixed degree band in every sign, and that band is exactly one nakṣatra pada wide. Here is the arithmetic and the misreading

Tārā is a nine-step count run in both directions, and it is the same cycle used to pick a day. Graha maitrī scores two Moon-sign lords.

The sixteen vargas are not equally weighted. The vimśopaka scheme gives D60 more weight than the rāśi chart and gives D10 half a point.

The D7 divides each sign into seven parts and counts them differently in odd and even signs. Get that rule wrong and half your chart lands e

Rāhu Kāla is one eighth of the time from sunrise to sunset, so it moves with your city and the season. The fixed ninety minute table is an a

The devatā is the interpretive key and the symbol only illustrates it. Here is the full table of 27 nakṣatra deities and symbols, read in th

Nāḍī carries the largest weight in guṇa milan at 8 of 36. Losing all eight still leaves a score above the usual threshold, which is the arit

Māraka comes from the 2nd and 7th lords. Bādhaka comes from the lagna's modality. Neither category is a prediction of death.

Five of twelve houses flag a chart as manglik, and the classical cancellation clauses are long enough that a large share of them cancel.