Friendship of Rashis Is the Friendship of Their Lords

The 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. Venus is friendly with Mercury and Saturn, and hostile to the Sun and the Moon. Neutral pairs sit between friend and enemy and score accordingly in matching. This is why a Moon in Simha, the Sun's sign, and a Moon in Mesha, Mars's sign, are called easy company: their lords are friends. A Moon in Simha and a Moon in Makara meet Sun and Saturn, who are enemies. The score is a koota. It is not a ban on the friendship.

Count eleven from the lagna for the people who actually show up as friends and for the gains they bring. The 11th lord's dasha times the network. If that lord is Mercury, the seventeen-year period is full of peers and messages. If the Moon signs are hostile and the 11th lords are conjunct, the life can still produce a loyal friend the guna sheet would have doubted. Matching uses the table before marriage. Daily friendship uses the 11th after birth. Mixing them produces the rashi columns that say two signs can never be friends. Those columns forget the lagna.

Besides natural friendship, a graha's temporary friendship depends on the houses it occupies from another, a compound relation textbooks call panchadha maitri. That layer needs the whole chart. A public page that stops at natural friends and enemies is only the first layer, and it is the layer Ashtakoota uses. Jyothish SI can show both Moon signs and both 11th lords. Use natural maitri for a quick match score. Use the 11th lord's mahadasha, years according to that graha, for the question of who stays in your life.