Vedic Yoga Calculator
A Yoga is a named combination in the birth chart — a condition the classical texts single out and give a name to. Astrovarg evaluates the classical Yoga corpus against your chart and reports which conditions are satisfied, the placements that satisfy them, and the text each rule comes from. Where two classical works define the same Yoga differently, both readings are evaluated and shown separately rather than merged into one answer.
What is a Yoga in Vedic astrology?
A Yoga is a named combination in a birth chart: a specific arrangement of grahas, houses or signs that a classical text singles out and gives a name to. Gajakesari, Kemadruma, the five Pancha Mahapurusha Yogas and the Dhana Yogas are all of this kind.
A Yoga is a condition, not a prediction. The classical rule says what must be true of the chart. Astrovarg evaluates exactly that condition and reports whether it is satisfied, together with the placements that satisfied it.
How Astrovarg calculates Yogas
Your birth date, time and place are resolved to an instant, and the chart is computed from JPL DE441 ephemeris data by Astrovarg's own engine. The Yoga rules are then evaluated against that chart in a single pass. Nothing is calculated in your browser.
Each rule is transcribed from a classical source as a structured condition — houses, signs, lordships, aspects and dignities — rather than as prose. That is why every result on this page can show you the placements it rests on instead of asking you to take it on trust.
The Yogas here are whole-sign, which is how the classical texts state them. See the Shadbala calculator for planetary strength, and the birth chart for the placements themselves.
How each Yoga is reported
A Yoga is a condition, not a prediction. Each one is evaluated from its own classical definition, and the report names the placements that satisfied it — the signs, houses and grahas the rule actually turned on — rather than asserting a verdict you cannot check.
Where the classical sources speak to a Yoga, each statement is reported on its own, with the work it comes from named, rather than blended into one paragraph nobody wrote. Where they say nothing, the report says nothing rather than filling the gap.
Nothing here is ranked or scored. The engine reports whether a combination formed; how strongly it operates is a separate question it has not answered.
What are Dhana Yogas?
The Dhana Yogas are the classical combinations concerning wealth. They are not one rule but a family of them, grouped into subfamilies by what each rule actually reads — the placement and dignity of the second lord, the relationship between the second and eleventh lords, the occupants of the second house, and so on.
Astrovarg shows the family, the subfamily and the individual rule, because a chart can satisfy several Dhana rules at once and they are not interchangeable. There is deliberately no wealth score, no percentage and no ranking: the classical texts state conditions, not quantities, and a number here would be invented rather than computed.
What is Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga?
Neecha Bhanga is the cancellation of debilitation: a graha in its sign of debilitation whose weakness is undone by another placement, most often the dispositor or the sign's exaltation lord occupying an angle from the lagna or the Moon.
It is assessed per graha. If two debilitated grahas each satisfy a cancellation condition, that is two separate results, and Astrovarg shows both — each naming its own graha and its own evidence rather than collapsing them into one line.
Methodology and limits
The evaluated corpus is finite and deliberately so. A Yoga is included only when a classical source states it in terms that can be evaluated without guessing. A small number of doctrines remain outside it, waiting on either a determinate reading of the source or a calculation the engine does not yet perform — they are not shown as absent, because “absent” would be a verdict the engine never reached.
A few definitions rest almost entirely on their source but need one computational boundary the text does not supply — most often what counts as a weak Moon. Where a result depends on that choice, the card carries a method note saying so. Nothing is hidden behind a confident tick.
Some combinations in wide circulation today, such as Kala Sarpa, do not appear in the primary classical texts at all. Where Astrovarg evaluates one of these it is labelled a later-tradition convention rather than presented alongside a sourced rule as though the two had equal standing.
Frequently asked questions
- Why does one Yoga show two different answers?
- Because two classical texts define it differently and your chart satisfies one definition but not the other. Both are shown with their sources named. Neither is treated as the correct one.
- My chart shows no Yogas. Is something wrong?
- No. The evaluated corpus is a finite set of classical conditions and a chart is under no obligation to satisfy any of them. It is a result, not an error.
- Does a Yoga guarantee the result its name suggests?
- This calculator reports whether a classical condition is satisfied. It does not predict outcomes, and it does not rank Yogas by strength.
- Which ayanamsha is used?
- Astrovarg's Lahiri (true). The ayanamsha moves every sidereal longitude, so a different frame is a different calculation rather than a relabelling — it is chosen on the birth-chart pages, and this report follows whichever frame you last set there.
- Do I need an exact birth time?
- The more exact the better. The lagna moves roughly a degree every four minutes, and much of the corpus is read from the lagna, so an approximate time can change which Yogas are reported.