How Daṇḍa Yoga forms
This is the exact condition the check above applies.
| Condition | Requirement |
|---|---|
| The grahas | All seven, Sun through Saturn |
| The houses | Only 10, 11, 12 and 1 |
| Empty | The remaining eight houses hold none of the seven |
| How often it occurs | 0.5% of charts in our sample |
Anchored on the 10th, the last of the four-house set.
What Sārāvalī says Daṇḍa Yoga gives
Sārāvalī gives the bleakest result in the chapter: loss of wife and children, poverty, discarded by everyone, cut off from one's own circle, grieved, mean, and in service.
The placement accounts for it. The quadrant runs 10th, 11th, 12th, 1st — action, gain, loss and self — and it excludes every relational house in the chart. Nothing in the 4th, the 5th or the 7th means nothing structurally supporting home, children or partnership.
A daṇḍa is a staff — the implement of someone with nothing else, carried by the renunciate and the beggar alike. The image and the result agree.
Ākṛti yogas — the shape the grahas make
Daṇḍa is the only four-house yoga whose quadrant contains no relational house at all.
We measured it rather than guessed: across a sample of 398 charts, Daṇḍa 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.