How Vāpi Yoga forms
This is the exact condition the check above applies.
| Condition | Requirement |
|---|---|
| The grahas | All seven, Sun through Saturn |
| Option A | Only in the paṇaphara houses — 2, 5, 8, 11 |
| Option B | Only in the āpoklima houses — 3, 6, 9, 12 |
| Empty | All four angles, in either case |
| How often it occurs | Did not occur in a 398-chart sample |
Vāpi is the exact complement of Kamala: where Kamala fills only the angles, Vāpi avoids them entirely — and both are read favourably, which is worth pausing on.
What Sārāvalī says Vāpi Yoga gives
Sārāvalī gives skill in amassing wealth, lasting riches and happiness, beauty, and happiness through children.
That a yoga which empties every angle is read as fortunate cuts against the usual emphasis on kendra strength, and the tradition does not explain itself here. The reading that fits is accumulation without exposure — a pool holds water precisely because it is not in the current.
The wealth in this yoga is described as lasting, which is the distinguishing word. Vāpi is not about acquiring quickly.
Ākṛti yogas — the shape the grahas make
Vāpi is the only Ākṛti yoga defined by the houses it avoids rather than the ones it fills.
We measured it rather than guessed, and Vāpi did not occur once in a sample of 398 charts. That follows from what it asks — all seven grahas in succedents only, or cadents only. — 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.