How Yupa Yoga forms
This is the exact condition the check above applies.
| Condition | Requirement |
|---|---|
| The grahas | All seven, Sun through Saturn |
| The houses | Only 1, 2, 3 and 4 |
| Empty | The remaining eight houses hold none of the seven |
| How often it occurs | 1.3% of charts in our sample |
One of four yogas that confine all seven grahas to four continuous houses, each anchored on a different angle — Yupa from the 1st, Sara from the 4th, Śakti from the 7th, Daṇḍa from the 10th.
What Sārāvalī says Yupa Yoga gives
Sārāvalī gives self-protection, charitableness, riches and happiness, observance of religious fasts and vows, and a person of distinction.
It is the most favourable of the four-house yogas, and the placement explains why: everything is concentrated in the first quadrant — self, wealth, effort and home. A life built entirely on its own foundations.
The religious observance in the list is not decoration. The yūpa is the post to which the sacrificial offering is tied, and the yoga carries that association of a life organised around obligation kept.
Ākṛti yogas — the shape the grahas make
Yupa concentrates the chart into the first quadrant, the quadrant of the self.
We measured it rather than guessed: across a sample of 398 charts, Yupa formed in 1.3% 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.