How Samudra Yoga forms
This is the exact condition the check above applies.
| Condition | Requirement |
|---|---|
| The grahas | All seven, Sun through Saturn |
| The houses | The even houses — 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 |
| Empty | All six odd houses, including the Lagna |
| How often it occurs | 0.5% of charts in our sample |
The counterpart of Chakra, and the occupied set here includes all three dusthānas.
What Sārāvalī says Samudra Yoga gives
Sārāvalī gives abundant wealth and precious stones, kingship, pleasures, popularity, a steady mind and a truthful disposition.
It is a strongly favourable result, and notably so given that the occupied houses include the 6th, 8th and 12th. The ocean holds everything, including what is thrown into it — which is as close as the chapter comes to explaining why.
Compare it with Chakra: Chakra gives pre-eminence among the eminent, Samudra gives wealth, pleasure and popular regard. Both are strong; they are strong in different currencies.
Ākṛti yogas — the shape the grahas make
Samudra takes the even houses — including all three dusthānas — and is still read as fortunate.
We measured it rather than guessed: across a sample of 398 charts, Samudra 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.