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Raja Yoga Types: Kendra With Trikona

The basic raja yoga is a lord of a kendra, houses 1, 4, 7, or 10, joined to a lord of a trikona, houses 1, 5, or 9. Dharma-karmadhipati yoga is the 9th and 10th lords in that relationship. Pancha Mahapurusha yogas are a separate list.

What Are The Different Types Of Raj Yoga In Vedic Astrology Insideastro Iajj03
What Are The Different Types Of Raj Yoga In Vedic Astrology Insideastro Iajj03
Updated 22 October 2026 2 min read 431 words

Kendra and trikona

Kendras are the angular houses and trikonas the trines. The 1st house is both, so the lagna lord has a head start. When the 9th lord sits with the 10th lord, the yoga has a name of its own, dharma-karmadhipati, fortune's lord with career's lord. Conjunction, mutual aspect, or exchange all count. The planets change with the lagna. For Cancer, the 9th lord is Jupiter and the 10th lord is Mars. For Libra, the 9th lord is Mercury and the 10th lord is the Moon. A list that always credits Jupiter is describing a Cancer chart and calling it universal.

Five mahapurusha yogas

These need one of Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, or Saturn in its own sign or exaltation, and in a kendra from the lagna. Mars gives Ruchaka, Mercury Bhadra, Jupiter Hamsa, Venus Malavya, Saturn Sasa. The Moon and the Sun do not form this set. Exaltations are Mars in Capricorn, Mercury in Virgo, Jupiter in Cancer, Venus in Pisces, Saturn in Libra. Own signs are the two each of those five owns, except Jupiter's and Venus's exaltations are not their own signs. The planet must also be in an angle. An exalted Saturn in the 2nd is a strong Saturn and not Sasa.

Names that are easy to misfile

Gaja Kesari is Jupiter in a kendra from the Moon, a lunar angularity, not a kendra-trikona lordship. Viparita raja yoga is a dusthana lord in a dusthana, Harsha, Sarala, or Vimala. Neecha bhanga raja yoga needs a real cancellation of debilitation, not mere success. All of these fruit in the dasha of the planets that form them. A raja yoga of the 9th and 10th lords during a mahadasha of the 3rd lord waits. The type is the geometry. The decade is the delivery.

Frequently asked questions

What is the basic raja yoga?

A kendra lord with a trikona lord, by conjunction, aspect, or exchange. The 9th and 10th lords are the dharma-karmadhipati form.

What are the five mahapurusha names?

Ruchaka for Mars, Bhadra for Mercury, Hamsa for Jupiter, Malavya for Venus, Sasa for Saturn, each in own sign or exaltation and in a kendra.

Is Gaja Kesari a kendra-trikona yoga?

No. It is Jupiter in a kendra from the Moon. The reference point is the Moon, not a house lord from the lagna.

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