How Sunaphā forms
| Condition | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Position | The 2nd house counted from the Moon |
| Occupant | Any planet other than the Sun |
| Excluded | The Sun always; Rāhu and Ketu in the standard reading |
| Varieties | Thirty, by which graha or combination of grahas occupies the position |
What Sunaphā gives
Sārāvalī gives wealth, self-made prowess, virtue, learning in the śāstras, fame, a peaceful disposition and high intelligence — and the phrase worth holding onto is self-made. Sunaphā describes position reached through one's own effort rather than through inheritance or patronage.
The 2nd from any point is what that point accumulates. The 2nd from the Moon is therefore what the mind accumulates — knowledge, resources, standing gathered over time. That is why the classical result reads as it does: not sudden fortune, but a person who steadily acquires.
Read the forming graha to know what is acquired. Mercury gives learning and articulacy; Venus gives comfort and social resource; Mars gives what is taken by effort; Saturn gives what is earned slowly and held; Jupiter gives knowledge and regard.
What each graha gives when it forms Sunaphā
Sārāvalī gives the result separately for each planet occupying the 2nd from the Moon. This is the part that makes the yoga usable — the yoga names the channel, and the graha names what comes through it.
| Graha in the 2nd from the Moon | Classical result |
|---|---|
| Mars | Valorous and wealthy, but harsh in speech — a commander of forces, fierce, proud, and readily hostile. The most double-edged of the five. |
| Mercury | Expert in the Vedas, the śāstras and music. Virtuous, a poet, high-minded, intent on the good of all, and of brilliant physique. |
| Jupiter | High learning and fame; a ruler or close to one. Good family, and wealth in quantity. |
| Venus | Spouse, land, wealth, livestock and courage — honoured by authority, and brave with it. |
| Saturn | Skilful and honoured by the people of his village and city. Wealth in abundance, devotion to the work itself, and bravery. |
Where more than one graha occupies the 2nd from the Moon, the results combine rather than compete — which is the arithmetic behind the thirty varieties the text counts.
The Sun does not count, and neither do the nodes
In every yoga on this page the planets counted beside the Moon exclude the Sun. That is not an oversight in the texts — the Moon is never far from the Sun in a way that would make the count meaningful, and a rule that counted it would fire on roughly a third of all charts. Rāhu and Ketu are excluded on the same principle in the standard reading, though some lineages count them. If another tool tells you that you have Sunaphā where this one does not, a node beside the Moon is the most likely reason.
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.