Graha Maitri: Friendship of the Moon-Sign Lords

Moon is friendly with the Sun and Mercury and has no natural enemy. Mars is friendly with the Sun, the Moon, and Jupiter, and hostile to Mercury. Mercury is friendly with the Sun and Venus, and hostile to the Moon. Jupiter is friendly with the Sun, the Moon, and Mars, and hostile to Mercury and Venus. Saturn is friendly with Mercury and Venus, and hostile to the Sun, the Moon, and Mars. Rahu is treated like Saturn and Ketu like Mars in many matching notes, which is a school practice rather than a seventh physical planet. Two Moon signs whose lords are friends score the maitri points. Lords who are enemies score poorly. Neutral pairs sit between. The score is not a character reference.

Bhakoot, worth 7, can fail even when the lords are friends, because it measures the sign distance, including the 6/8 and 2/12 patterns matchers dislike. Nadi can zero out 8 points on nakshatras that sit in friendly signs. A couple with friendly Moon lords and both 7th lords in the 8th is not saved by maitri. Venus, debilitated in Kanya or exalted in Meena, tells the marriage karaka's story in each natal chart. D9 tells whether that story survives. The life-path habit of pairing digits skips every one of these layers and still sounds like compatibility. It is a different hobby.

A friendly maitri score is lived in the 7th lord's dasha and in Venus's twenty years. Jupiter's sixteen years matter in a woman's chart because Jupiter karakas the husband. If Saturn is the 7th lord, for Karka or Simha lagna, the nineteen-year Saturn period is the marriage climate, slow even if the Moon signs are friends. Jyothish SI computes the Moon signs with Lahiri ayanamsa from the birth time, then the lords are known and the table can be applied. Without the time, a Moon near a sign edge may be the neighboring rashi, and the friendship score flips with it.