How Anaphā forms
| Condition | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Position | The 12th house counted from the Moon |
| Occupant | Any planet other than the Sun |
| Excluded | The Sun always; Rāhu and Ketu in the standard reading |
| Varieties | Thirty, by which graha or combination occupies the position |
What Anaphā gives
Sārāvalī gives eloquence, magnanimity, virtue, and the enjoyment of food, drink, adornment and company — together with fame. Where Sunaphā gives acquisition, Anaphā gives expenditure and enjoyment, and it is the more sensuous of the two.
That follows from the house. The 12th from any point is its loss, its release, its letting-go. The 12th from the Moon is what the mind releases — which reads as generosity, as ease with spending, and as a temperament that is comfortable giving things away.
The classical texts also associate Anaphā with a person who withdraws well: the same 12th-house quality, read inwardly, gives a capacity for solitude that Sunaphā charts often lack.
What each graha gives when it forms Anaphā
As with Sunaphā, Sārāvalī specifies the result per planet — and the Anaphā list is noticeably more sensuous and more socially charged than the Sunaphā one.
| Graha in the 12th from the Moon | Classical result |
|---|---|
| Mars | Arrogant and fond of conflict, quick to anger — and at the same time honoured, praiseworthy, well-built and proud. The text is blunt: it also names leadership of a band of thieves. |
| Mercury | Expert in singing, dancing and writing; a poet and an able orator, honoured by authority, of brilliant body, and known for notable deeds. |
| Jupiter | Majestic, strong, intelligent, fond of assembly, made famous through a ruler, and a poet. |
| Venus | An exceptionally great liking for women, pleasures enjoyed, splendour, fame and abundant gold. The most explicitly sensuous entry in the set. |
| Saturn | Broad-shouldered, a leader, inclined to keep his commitments, rich in livestock, virtuous — and devoted to a woman of poor repute. |
The unflattering halves are in the source and are reproduced here. A yoga list that keeps only the favourable clauses is not reporting the tradition, it is advertising.
The Sun does not count, and neither do the nodes
In every yoga on this page the planets counted beside the Moon exclude the Sun. That is not an oversight in the texts — the Moon is never far from the Sun in a way that would make the count meaningful, and a rule that counted it would fire on roughly a third of all charts. Rāhu and Ketu are excluded on the same principle in the standard reading, though some lineages count them. If another tool tells you that you have Sunaphā where this one does not, a node beside the Moon is the most likely reason.
How this check works
Your chart is computed from an astronomical ephemeris on the Lahiri (Citrapakṣa) ayanāṁśa, and the formation rule stated on this page is tested against it directly — the same rule, not a paraphrase. Where the classical texts disagree about a condition, the page names the reading we follow.