How Sara Yoga forms
This is the exact condition the check above applies.
| Condition | Requirement |
|---|---|
| The grahas | All seven, Sun through Saturn |
| The houses | Only 4, 5, 6 and 7 |
| Empty | The remaining eight houses hold none of the seven |
| How often it occurs | 0.5% of charts in our sample |
Anchored on the 4th, the second of the four-house set.
What Sārāvalī says Sara Yoga gives
Sārāvalī gives occupations of force and pursuit: the making of arrows — arms and weapons in a modern reading — the catching of thieves, and living in forests to hunt. It adds that the native is equal to a mad person, given to torture, and fond of mean handiwork.
The severity follows the placement. The four houses are home, merit, conflict and others — with the 6th, the house of enemies and injury, sitting in the middle of the run and nothing in the chart standing outside it to temper it.
Read in modern terms without softening the source: it describes work with force at its centre, and a temperament that the tradition regarded as difficult to live beside.
Ākṛti yogas — the shape the grahas make
Sara concentrates it into the quadrant containing the 6th, which is the whole of its difficulty.
We measured it rather than guessed: across a sample of 398 charts, Sara 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.