The Jyotiṣa Journal — Karma Jyotisha

Kemadruma Yoga and the Three Ways It Is Cancelled

Kemadruma is defined by two empty signs around the Moon. The standard cancellations are so common that most frightening readings of it do no

Kāla Sarpa Yoga does not appear in the Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra under that name. Here is what the classical corpus actually contains about

The D10 refines what the 10th house already promises. It does not name professions, and each of its cells is only three degrees wide.

Bhakūṭ scores seven guṇas on the distance between two Moon signs, and the classical parihāra cancels it far more often than the matching rep

The arithmetic behind Vimśottarī sub-periods, why the sequence always opens with the mahādaśā lord itself, and how to read a bhukti table wi

Abhijit is the eighth of fifteen daylight divisions, it moves with your longitude, and it is specifically excepted on Wednesdays.

Yoni kūṭa is worth 4 of 36 points and its enmity table has exactly seven pairs. Here is the full mapping and what a low score really means.

Vimśottarī is the default daśā rather than the only one. Yoginī runs a thirty-six year cycle from the birth nakṣatra, and it repeats within

A tithi is 12 degrees of Moon-Sun separation, so it stretches and compresses. That is why two panchangas can disagree about a festival date.

Ṣaḍbala adds six separate measurements into one number. That number describes capacity, and capacity is a different question from outcome.

Sade sati and the two dhaiyyas are the same transit rule counted from the natal Moon at different distances. Here is the machinery underneat

Retrograde Rāhu and retrograde Ketu are permanent states, so they cannot mean anything special in a chart. Here is why, and the one real exc