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Yogas in My Chart: Find Your Vedic Planetary Combinations

By Steer Corp · June 12, 2026 · 7 min

Your Vedic birth chart may hold one or more named yoga, a specific planetary combination that carries a classical promise: standing and authority from a raja yoga, wealth from a dhana yoga, noble character from one of the five Pancha Mahapurusha yogas, or wisdom and respect from Gaja Kesari. The checker below takes your birth details, calculates your sidereal chart, and runs the classical rules for all of these. The article that follows explains what each check does and what to do with the result.

For the full system of yogas explained from the ground up, what yogas are in Vedic astrology is the right starting place. This page assumes you want to check your own chart and read what the findings mean.

What the checker looks for

The yoga families checked here follow the classical order taught in the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra and the Phaladeepika. The checker works through five groups in sequence.

Pancha Mahapurusha yogas. For each of the five non-luminous planets, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn, the checker asks: is this planet in its own sign or its exaltation sign, and does that sign fall in an angle, the 1st, 4th, 7th, or 10th house? A yes on both counts names one of the five: Ruchaka for Mars, Bhadra for Mercury, Hamsa for Jupiter, Malavya for Venus, or Sasa for Saturn.

Raja yogas. The checker lists the lords of the four angle houses (1, 4, 7, 10) and the three trine houses (1, 5, 9), then tests every kendra-trikona pair for conjunction, mutual aspect, or sign-exchange. Each qualifying pair is a raja yoga, and the strongest one, often the 9th-and-10th lord link, is highlighted. The yogakaraka, a single planet ruling both an angle and a trine, is flagged separately.

Dhana yogas. The lords of the 2nd and 11th houses are the primary wealth pair; the checker also tests their links to the 5th, 9th, and 1st lords. Association by conjunction, aspect, or exchange qualifies. Placement versions, the 2nd lord in the 11th house or vice versa, are included.

Gaja Kesari yoga. The checker counts the angular distance from the Moon's sign to Jupiter's sign. If Jupiter falls in the 1st, 4th, 7th, or 10th sign from the Moon, Gaja Kesari is present.

Moon's companion yogas. Sunapha forms when a planet other than the Sun occupies the 2nd sign from the Moon; Anapha when one occupies the 12th; Durudhara when both sides are occupied. The checker flags each.

How the strength grade works

Finding a yoga is the first step; grading it is the second. The checker grades each yoga's forming planets on the standard dignity scale.

Condition	Strength reading
Own sign or exaltation sign	High: the planet works at full strength
Friendly sign	Moderate: the planet is comfortable, well-supported
Neutral sign	Fair: the planet is functional but unassisted
Enemy sign or debilitation sign	Weak: the yoga is present but sleeping
Combust (within roughly 12–17 degrees of the Sun, varying by planet)	Reduced: check for recovery factors

A yoga graded high is awake and delivering; one graded weak is read as asleep, with its results waiting on support from other placements or on the arrival of the right dasha period. Both are recorded; neither is hidden from the result.

What your result tells you

The result page names each yoga found, shows which planets form it and from which houses, gives the strength grade, and links to the full article for that yoga. Two things follow from there.

The strength grade tells you whether to read the yoga as active now or as seasonal. A strong yoga in the current or upcoming dasha of its forming planets is active. A weak yoga in an unfavorable period is sleeping, and you look for the planetary period that will wake it.

The house placement of the yoga tells you which area of life the promise lands. A raja yoga built from the 10th lord brings the rise through career; one built from the 7th lord may bring it through partnership. A Malavya yoga with Venus in the 4th brings Venusian grace into the home more than into public life. The full guide to yogas in Vedic astrology explains each family's house logic in the sections that lead you to the four detailed articles.

The inputs you need

Three details are required: your birth date, your birth time, and your birth place.

Birth date and place together set the Sun and outer planets accurately. Birth time sets the ascendant, which is what determines house lords. House lords are the whole engine of raja and dhana yoga detection, so birth time matters here. The ascendant shifts sign roughly every two hours as the Earth rotates; without an accurate time, the angle-and-trine lord test may run on the wrong houses.

If you have only an approximate birth time, the Mahapurusha and Gaja Kesari checks, which rely on planet signs rather than house lords, still return reliable results. A note in the result flags which sections are sensitive to a time change so you know where to look if you later find a more precise record.

After the check

Read the full articles for every yoga the checker finds. The guides to raja yoga, dhana yoga, Pancha Mahapurusha yoga, and Gaja Kesari yoga each explain what the yoga gives, how to grade it, and when to expect its seasons. A free birth chart shows the full picture, house lords and all, in one view, which is the natural companion to reading the yoga report.

The Phaladeepika and the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra frame every yoga as a gift with a condition: the condition is that the forming planets must be strong and their season must come. Reading a yoga report well means holding both halves, the gift and the condition, at the same time.

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Frequently asked questions

What does a yoga checker actually calculate?

A yoga checker takes your birth date, time, and place, builds a sidereal Vedic chart using an astronomical ephemeris, identifies each house lord, and then tests the classical rules for each yoga family in order. It checks which angle lords meet which trine lords (raja yoga), which wealth lords associate (dhana yoga), whether any of the five planets are own-sign or exalted in an angle (Mahapurusha), and where Jupiter falls from the Moon (Gaja Kesari).

Does having more yogas mean a better chart?

Not directly. Each yoga marks a particular gift or capacity, and more of them add more layers of promise. But every yoga is judged by the strength of its forming planets: a modest chart with one strong, well-placed yoga can outperform a chart with four yogas built from weak or afflicted planets. Yogas are read additively, never as a ranking of one chart against another.

What if the checker finds no yogas in my chart?

Most charts hold none of the named Mahapurusha yogas, and many hold no strong raja yoga either. Absence of a named combination is not a defect. A life built on strong house lords, a supported Moon, and well-timed planetary periods carries its own gifts without any of the famous labels. The checker names what is classically defined; it cannot name what the chart holds beyond those patterns.

Why do I need my birth time for yoga checking?

House lords depend on the ascendant, and the ascendant changes every two hours as the Earth turns. A wrong ascendant gives you the wrong lords for every house, which means the raja and dhana yoga checks will return false results. For the Mahapurusha and Gaja Kesari checks only the planet signs matter, so birth time is less critical there, but the full scan needs a reliable ascendant.

What is the difference between a yoga being present and being strong?

Present means the classical forming rule is met: the planets are in the right positions relative to each other. Strong means the planets that form it are dignified, free of combustion and debility, well-placed in good houses, and clear of harsh aspects. A present but weak yoga is read as asleep: it gives muted or delayed results, often waiting for the dasha periods of its forming planets before it flowers.

When will a yoga in my chart give its results?

The standard timing rule points to the Vimshottari dasha periods of the planets that form the yoga. A raja yoga built from the 9th and 10th lords tends to pay in those lords' major or sub-periods. A Mahapurusha yoga built from Jupiter tends to pay in Jupiter's 16-year mahadasha. The yoga describes the promise; the dasha calendar sets the delivery date, which is why the same yoga can arrive early in one life and late in another.