Fame and Astrology (Part-2)
SPECIAL OR RARE RAJA YOGAS
Raja yogas are numerous but among those thousands are some that are special and some rare in occurrence, such as:-
Panch Mahapurusha yoga
This yoga arises when any one of the five Tara-grahas viz; Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn; is in its exaltation, own or moolatrikona rasi in a kendra from the lagna; thus the Panch Mahapurusha yoga that can be formed are five in number called Bhadra yoga, Malvaya yoga, Ruchuka yoga, Hamsa yoga and Sasa yoga, of which the Malvaya yoga and the Hamsa yoga are Raja yogas.(Source: Saravali)
Kahala yoga:
This yoga arises if the lord of the sign occupied by the lord of the lagna is in a kendra or a trikona in its exaltation or own sign. (Source:Phaladeepika)
Chamara yoga:
This yoga arises if the lagna is aspected or occupied by benefics and the lord of the lagna situated in an auspicious house is in its exaltation or own sign. (Source: Phaladeepika)
Akhand Samrajya yoga:
This yoga arises only if Jupiter owns either the 5th or the 11th house and the lords of the 2nd, the 9th and the 11th from the Moon are strongly placed in the kendras or if Jupiter, not weak or debilitated, is in the 2nd, the 5th or the 11th and the lords of the 2nd, the 9th and the 11th are in a kendra from the Moon. (Source: Jataka Parijata)
Viparita Raja yoga:
This yoga involves the conjunction of the lords of the evil houses i.e. 3rd, 6th, 8th and 12th, in an evil house or their interchanging of signs with these lords remaining weak in strength.(Source: Bṛhat Parāśara Horāśāstra)
Neechbhanga Raja yoga:
This yoga arises if an exalted planet conjoins with a planet in its sign of debilitation, or if a planet in its sign of debilitation attains its exaltation navamsa, or if the lord of the sign occupied by the planet which is debilitated occupies its own exaltation sign, or if the lord of the sign of the planet in debilitation is in a kendra from the Moon, or if the lord of the sign occupied by the planet in debilitation and the lord of its exaltation sign are both in mutual kendras, or if the debilitated planet is aspected by the exalted lord of the sign it occupies. (Source: Phaladeepika)
Rajayogabhanga or nullification of Raja yogas
There are certain planetary situations or yogas that can cause Rajayogabhanga or nullification of Raja yogas, they are:-Besides the occurrence of any Raja yoga formation if there be a) simultaneous presence of planets in debilitation signs or debilitation navamsas, or b) planets defeated in planetary war, planets occupying inimical signs or in bhava-sandhi, planets that are weak, combust or retrograde, or c) planets in conjunction with Rahu or with the lord of the 6th,the 8th or the 12th, or with the lord of a kendra, a functional malefic. These planetary situations can cause Raja yoga Bhanga.(Source: Uttara Kalamrita) Also, if the Ascendant is neither in vargottama nor aspected by a benefic, and if Trishanku Nakshatra is rising and Saturn is in Lagna then too Raja yogas get nullified.
