Ravi Yoga and the Sun's Real Rules

Ravi is the Sun. The firm rules are easier to trust than a yoga that blogs define three ways. The Sun is exalted in Aries, debilitated in Libra, and in its own sign in Leo. It has directional strength, digbala, in the 10th house. A Sun that is in the 10th and in Aries satisfies dignity and direction together, which for a Cancer lagna is an exalted Sun in the career house, ruling the 2nd. That is a specific chart, not a universal Ravi yoga you can claim from Leo alone.

The Sun's mahadasha lasts 6 years. Whatever yoga exists, those are the short years that spend the Sun directly.

Budhaditya yoga is the Sun and Mercury in one rashi, common because Mercury stays near the Sun, and thinner when Mercury is combust. Veshi yoga is a planet other than the Moon in the 2nd from the Sun. Voshi yoga is a planet other than the Moon in the 12th from the Sun. Ubhayachari yoga places such planets on both sides of the Sun. These are the solar combinations with a stable meaning: the Sun flanked or joined, and the house of that cluster doing the work.

A page that says Ravi yoga and means only the Sun in a kendra is describing a house, which is worth reading, and should say kendra.

The Sun rules one house from the lagna, or two if you count only Leo and nothing else, since the Sun owns a single sign. For Scorpio lagna the Sun rules the 10th. For Aquarius the Sun rules the 7th, so a strong Sun is a marriage lord as well as a king. Calling every strong Sun a career yoga ignores Aquarius.

The Navamsa of the Sun shows whether authority holds. A Sun exalted in Aries and fallen in the D9 was overpraised. Name Budhaditya, Veshi, or Voshi if they are present, and skip a Ravi yoga you cannot define the same way twice.