Viparita Raja Yoga: Dusthana Lords in Dusthanas

The 6th, 8th, and 12th are dusthanas, houses of conflict, crisis, and loss. Their lords are difficult employees. Viparita means contrary: the difficult lord, placed in a difficult house, is said to turn the difficulty into a rise. Harsha uses the 6th lord. Sarala uses the 8th lord. Vimala uses the 12th lord. The rise is usually through a crisis, a contest, a debt recovered, an illness-house struggle, or a foreign or hidden route. This page will not turn the 6th into a disease story. The 6th is conflict and competitors. The yoga says the native can gain by facing them, during that lord's period.

The 6th lord in the 10th is not Harsha. The lord has left the dusthana set. The 8th lord in the 8th is Sarala. The 8th lord in the 7th is an 8th lord in marriage, a different and often harder picture, and it is not this yoga. Count from the lagna you trust. A wrong birth time changes which planet owns the 6th. For Aries the 6th lord is Mercury. For Taurus it is Venus. The same name, Harsha, is a different graha.

The contrary rise shows when that dusthana lord runs the mahadasha or the antardasha. Mercury's 17 years, if Mercury is the 6th lord, are the Harsha chapter for Aries. Outside that period the yoga is a capacity. It can coexist with ordinary suffering in the dusthana's topics, because the house is still a dusthana. People who expect only a throne miss the word viparita. The gain comes by way of the difficult house, not instead of it.