Raja yoga in astrology

Raja Yoga Manifestation – Vedic Astrology

How a raja yoga in a vedic chart is going to manifest itself is always hard for anastrologer to predict especially if he is not acquainted with the owner of the chart whichhas a raja yoga in it. While it is very easy to predict the time when such a raja yoga willshow its effects, especially by using the Vimshottari Dasha, it requires more than just acasual glance at the chart to explain the nature of the raja yoga.Raja yoga means a conjunction of at least two plants that produce success, wealth andgood fortune. When a lord of a Kendra and a Trikona combine in a house or aspect eachother, a raja yoga is formed. Such combinations however are very common and foundvery often in the charts of famous as well as ordinary people.While a raja yoga combination is always favorable when it appears in a chart one should be cautious while interpreting it. Astrologers should verify whether planets that form araja yoga are strong or not. This is usually done by studying the position of the concerned planets in the Navamsa chart first or by calculating their Shadbala.If the planets involved are strong enough one can expect good results during the periodsof the planets. But this is only half work done. While a raja yoga promises good fortuneand success during its period, how and from where success is going to come is thehardest to predict.The houses in which raja yoga is formed give us some idea about the area of success butthen again the planets themselves are indicators of houses they own and have to give their effects. In such a scenario it becomes extremely difficult to predict the exact nature of effects. Some astrologers see a raja yoga conjunction in the 9thhouse and then and there predict success, fame and fortune in foreign lands which the 9thhouse rules, when in fact the 9^th house also rules spirituality and religion. Hence one may become just a verydevout monk!That does not mean we just consider a house in interpreting a raja yoga combination. Alot also depends on the houses owned by the planets forming the raja yoga. In the chart below, the 5^th lord is conjunct 7^th lord in the 9^th house. During the major period of the 7^th lord and the sub period of the 5^th lord the person fell in love with a highly educated woman and soon thereafter married her. The 9^th house rules higher education also. The fifth house rules love affairs and the 7^th house rules marriage. The planets thus during their time produced the results of all threehouses at the same time. This peculiar combination of three factors or what is commonwith these three houses is how the manifestation of a raja yoga took place in this case.Although it is easier to understand this, it is always difficult for an astrologer to find thesemanifestations. For example the 5^th house also represents fame, while the 7^th house represents fame and honor in foreign countries while the 9^th house also represents fameand foreign countries. But the owner of the chart below has never been abroad. As can be seen, it is always difficult for the astrologer to find exactly how the raja yoga isgoing to manifest itself and familiarity with the owner of chart is very often helpful in giving accurate predictions not just about raja yoga combinations but any other auspicious or auspicious combinations.