How Chakra Yoga forms
This is the exact condition the check above applies.
| Condition | Requirement |
|---|---|
| The grahas | All seven, Sun through Saturn |
| The houses | The odd houses from the Lagna — 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 |
| Empty | All six even houses |
| How often it occurs | 0.5% of charts in our sample |
Chakra and Samudra are the two alternating yogas, distinguished only by whether the alternation starts at the Lagna or at the 2nd.
What Sārāvalī says Chakra Yoga gives
Sārāvalī gives the single most exalted description in the chapter: a king at whose feet other kings, wearing diamond-studded crowns, prostrate themselves.
Read past the imperial idiom and the claim is about being chief among people who are themselves eminent — not merely successful, but pre-eminent within a group of the successful.
The structure supports an unusually strong reading: the six occupied houses include the Lagna, both trines, the 7th and the 11th — every one of the chart's strongest positions, with none of the dusthānas.
Ākṛti yogas — the shape the grahas make
Chakra takes the odd houses, which happen to be the auspicious ones, and receives the most exalted description in the chapter.
We measured it rather than guessed: across a sample of 398 charts, Chakra formed in 0.5% of them.
The twenty Ākṛti yogas are named for the figure the seven grahas trace across the houses — a boat, a parasol, a bow, a lotus. Sārāvalī gives the class its own result before the individual ones: a person with any Ākṛti yoga is satisfied with their own fortune, earns through authority, is dear to those in power, and is famous. The individual yoga then says what kind of person that is.
Two things true of every Nābhasa yoga
They run continuously — Sārāvalī says the Nābhasa yogas are "effective at all times independent of Daśās", which sets them apart from almost every other yoga in Jyotiṣa. And they constrain all seven grahas at once, so most charts carry only a few and a "not present" result is the ordinary answer.
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.