How Koota Yoga forms
This is the exact condition the check above applies.
| Condition | Requirement |
|---|---|
| The grahas | All seven, Sun through Saturn |
| The houses | The seven continuous houses from the 4th — 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 |
| Empty | Houses 11, 12, 1, 2 and 3 must contain none of the seven |
| How often it occurs | 8.8% of charts in our sample |
The name means a peak or a fortress, and the classical results follow the image closely.
What Sārāvalī says Koota Yoga gives
This is one of the harshest descriptions in the chapter. Sārāvalī gives a liar, crafty, a jailer, poor, wicked and cruel, living always in hills and fortresses.
Read structurally rather than as character assassination: the shape places every graha across the private and adversarial middle of the chart — the 4th through the 10th — while leaving the houses of gain, dharma and self empty. A life organised entirely around holding a position, with nothing behind it and nothing beyond it.
The fortress is the point. Koota describes someone defending ground rather than extending it, and the unattractive qualities the text lists are what sustained defensiveness turns into.
Ākṛti yogas — the shape the grahas make
Koota is the run anchored on the 4th, and the harshest-described of the four.
We measured it rather than guessed: across a sample of 398 charts, Koota formed in 8.8% 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.