Yogas

Which special combinations are there?

A yoga is a named combination: a particular pattern of planets, signs, houses and lords that tradition says produces a particular result. There are hundreds of them. Spotting yogas is pattern recognition, and it is one of the most interesting parts of reading a chart, because it turns separate placements into one story.

a recipe. Flour, sugar and eggs are ordinary on their own; put together the right way they make a cake. A yoga is the recipe that turns separate placements into one result.

Four yogas as they look on a chart. The highlighted houses are the ones the yoga needs.

Every yoga, in plain words

Below is a library of the named yogas used in Vedic astrology, grouped into eighteen families. Search for a planet, a house or a name, or pick a family. A yoga that belongs to several families (Lakshmi Yoga is a power, wealth and Venus yoga) is shown once, with all its families listed.

The rule shown is each yoga's most common simple form. The texts differ on details, so an astrologer always checks which version is meant.

Three things to know about yogas.

There is no single official list. The classical texts (Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, Phaladeepika, Saravali, Jataka Parijata, Uttara Kalamrita, Chamatkara Chintamani) overlap but use different names and rules.
Not every pair of planets is a classical yoga. "Saturn with the Moon" is a combination; whether it counts as Vish Yoga, and how strongly, depends on the tradition and the exact conditions. Many internet lists skip this.
A yoga is only a promise. It has to be checked against its cancellation rules, the D9, the strength of the planets and houses involved, the nakshatras, and whether a dasha switches it on. A careful reading runs: yoga → source → how it forms → exceptions → D1 → D9 → strength → house → nakshatra → dasha → interpretation.

every yoga found in your chart, strongest first, is in your report. See also the Manglik Check.

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