Checking Your Chart for a Raja Yoga

For Mesha, the kendra lords include the Moon for the 4th, Venus for the 7th, and Saturn for the 10th. The trikona lords are the Sun for the 5th and Jupiter for the 9th. Mars, the lagna lord, can pair with any of them. Jupiter conjunct Saturn is a 9th lord with a 10th lord, which is also dharma-karmadhipati, a named case of the wider rule. Jupiter conjunct the Moon is a 9th lord with a 4th lord, still a raja yoga, a different room. If none of these links exist, you do not have the yoga, however successful the life looks. Success has other causes. The yoga is this link.

A link between fallen lords is a raja yoga with weak parts. Note it, and do not sell it as a throne. A lord who rules a trikona and a dusthana brings both. For Karka, Jupiter rules the 9th and the 6th. Jupiter conjunct Venus, the 4th lord, is a raja yoga that also carries debt and disease. Say the 6th. Counting 'how many' raja yogas by ignoring second lordships inflates the chart. One clean link whose dasha is running beats five dusty links in a Mercury period that touches none of them.

If the yoga's lords are not the mahadasha or antardasha, the yoga is natal and quiet. Venus runs 20 years, Saturn 19, Jupiter 16. If one of those is in your link, that is the audible stretch. You do not create the yoga by a Thursday rite. You either have the conjunction, the aspect, or the exchange, or you do not. Parivartana between a kendra lord and a trikona lord is the exchange form, often the strongest to see. Mutual aspect needs you to use real aspects: every graha aspects the 7th, Jupiter also the 5th and 9th, Saturn the 3rd and 10th, Mars the 4th and 8th. A 'feeling' of mutual aspect is not an aspect.