How Kamala Yoga forms
This is the exact condition the check above applies.
| Condition | Requirement |
|---|---|
| The grahas | All seven, Sun through Saturn |
| The houses | Only the kendras — 1, 4, 7 and 10 |
| Empty | All eight succedent and cadent houses |
| Distribution | Unlike Vajra and Yava, no condition on which angle holds benefics or malefics |
| How often it occurs | Did not occur in a 398-chart sample |
The rarest configuration in this group and the most favourably described.
What Sārāvalī says Kamala Yoga gives
Sārāvalī gives the strongest result in the chapter: highly famous, very virtuous, assuredly long-living, very rich, bright in appearance — and lord of the earth.
There is no counterweight clause. Of the twenty Ākṛti yogas this is the only one Sārāvalī describes without qualification, and the reason is that the configuration puts the entire chart on its load-bearing houses.
Read "lord of the earth" as the period's idiom for the top of whatever hierarchy the person is in. The substance of the claim is that nothing in the chart is placed where it cannot act.
Ākṛti yogas — the shape the grahas make
Kamala is what Gada, Vajra and Yava each achieve in part — every graha in an angle, with no further condition.
We measured it rather than guessed, and Kamala did not occur once in a sample of 398 charts. That follows from what it asks — all seven grahas in the four 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.