How Gada Yoga forms
This is the exact condition the check above applies.
| Condition | Requirement |
|---|---|
| The grahas | All seven, Sun through Saturn |
| The houses | Two adjacent kendras — 1&4, 4&7, 7&10, or 10&1 |
| Empty | The other two angles and all succedent and cadent houses |
| How often it occurs | Did not occur in a 398-chart sample |
Which pair of angles is occupied changes the reading considerably, even though the yoga is the same.
What Sārāvalī says Gada Yoga gives
Sārāvalī gives regard for honour and money, the performance of sacrifices, expertise in the śāstras and in music, and possession of money, gold and jewels.
It is one of the clearly favourable Ākṛti yogas, and the reason is structural: all seven grahas sit on the load-bearing houses of the chart. Nothing is wasted on a cadent house.
The pairing of ritual competence with material wealth is characteristic. Gada describes someone whose standing rests on doing the expected things unusually well rather than on originality.
Ākṛti yogas — the shape the grahas make
Gada puts every graha on a load-bearing house without constraining which side holds what.
We measured it rather than guessed, and Gada did not occur once in a sample of 398 charts. That follows from what it asks — all seven grahas in two adjacent kendras. — which the seven grahas almost never satisfy together. A "not present" result here is close to certain, and carries no bad news.
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.