Chapter 3
Yoga Adhyaya
1. It has been declared by the ancient Sages Vasishta, Suka, Parashara, etc., that the several yogas - whether good or bad in the nativities of human beings depend on the planets (constituting them), and that the effects in turn depend upon the yogas. Hence I am going to describe here, for the delectation of all the astrologers, these yogas after a due consideration of the valuable views expressed by Sage Suka.
2. If the lord of the Rashi occupied by the Moon be weak and occupy the 5th or the 9th house, the person born will be wrathful.
If a malefic planet should occupy the Ascendant and the lord of the Ascendant be devoid of strength, the native concerned will be afflicted with diseases - both bodily and mental.
If the said lord be conjoined with the lord of the Ascendant and occupy any of the Dusthanas (6th, 8th or 12th) and the native will be emaciated.
If the lords of the 9th, 6th and 8th houses be conjoined with or aspected by malefics and be posited anywhere, the native concerned will be a cuckold.
3. If the lords of the 6th and 8th houses occupy the 4th conjoined with Mars and the Moon, the native should be declared to have been born by the mother's congress with one other than the lawful husband.
If the lord of the 9th and 8th houses be conjoined anywhere with malefics or with Rahu or Ketu, the same result (the native born by the mother's congress with one other than the lawful husband) should be declared.
4. If the said two lords be associated with Saturn, the native will have been (illegally) begotten by a Sudra.
If the said two lords be associated with Mercury, the native will have been (illegally) begotten by a Vaisya.
If the said two lords be associated with the Sun, the native will have been (illegally) begotten by a Kshatriya.
If the said two lords be associated the Venus or Jupiter, the native will have been (illegally) begotten by a Brahmin.
If Venus and Jupiter conjoined with a malefic should occupy the 7th, the 6th or the 2nd, the native will have a liaison with another man's wife.
If the lords of the 10th and the 6th be conjoined and occupy the 10th, the father of the native will have intrigues with other people’s wives.
5. If the lord of the Ascendant be posited in the 2nd house in conjunction with a malefic, the father of the native will associate with the wife of a good man (or of a high class woman).
If the lords of the 7th, the 6th and the 2nd houses be conjoined with a malefic and occupy the 2nd, the same effect should be declared but in various forms - that is, intrigues with good women, illicit connections with them, eating prohibited food, etc.
If lords of the 3rd, 7th, 4th and 10th houses be associated with the lord of the Ascendant and be posited in nay house, the native should be declared to have been begotten by the mother through her congress with one other than the lawful husband.
6. If (a) the lord of the Ascendant and Mercury or (b) Mars and the Moon be in any house conjoined with Rahu or Ketu, the native becomes afflicted with white leprosy.
If the Sun be associated with Mars and Saturn, the native concerned will be afflicted with black leprosy.
If the lord of the Ascendant be conjoined with the Sun and posited in the 6th, the 8th or the 12th house, the native will be afflicted with goiter and other excrescence's of the neck, caused through heat.
7. If the lord of the Ascendant in conjunction with the Moon occupy the 6th, the 8th or the 12th house, the native will have goiter.
If with Mars in such a position (conjunct lord of Ascendant in a Dusthana), the native will suffer from a swelling or wounds inflicted through (surgery) with a weapon.
If with Jupiter, the native will suffer from constipation or indigestion; it will be consumption if the planet conjoining with the lord of the Ascendant be Venus.
If any one of the remaining three viz., Saturn, Rahu and Ketu, in conjunction with the lord of the Ascendant occupy the 6th, the 8th or the 12th, the person concerned will suffer from some affliction or disease caused by a thief or a Chandala.
8-9. If the Moon in conjunction with Mars and Saturn occupy Aries or Taurus, the person will be afflicted with white leprosy.
If Venus, Mars, the Moon and Saturn conjoin together in Pisces, Kataka or Scorpio, the person concerned will be devoid of good health, will commit gross sinful deeds and afflicted with red leprosy.
If Jupiter or Venus happen to be the lord of the 6th house, occupy the Ascendant and be aspected by malefics, the person concerned will suffer from facial tumours.
If the three houses signified by Pisces, Kataka and Scorpio be occupied by malefics, the native will be afflicted with long-standing leprosy spread over all his body in spider-like forms.
If Jupiter occupy the 12th house, the person born will suffer from acute troubles in the anus.
If Mars and Saturn be posited in the 12th or the 6th house, the native will suffer from ulcer.
10. If Saturn and the Moon in conjunction with a malefic occupy any one of the signs Aries, Kataka, Capricorn, Scorpio identical with the 9th house, the person concerned will be lame.
If Mars should aspect with his 7th glance the Moon and Saturn posited in the Ascendant, the native will be a bit void of intelligence. If Mars be betwixt the Sun and the Moon, the same result should be declared.
11. If the Moon occupy the Ascendant and Saturn endowed with power (i.e., owning strong Vargas) be posited in the 10th house and be aspected by Mercury with the 7th house glance, the person concerned will be highly intelligent.
If Mars and the Moon be posited in the Ascendant and aspected by Mercury with a full glance, the native will be lacking in intelligence. If the Moon and the lord of the Ascendant be aspected by Mars with a full glance, the same result should be declared.
12-13. If Mercury be in the Ascendant and the Sun and Saturn be posited (1) in their inimical house and be aspected by Mars (2) in a single house (identical with the 6th or in the same hemisphere, oriental or occidental - or - visible or invisible and be devoid of benefic aspect, the native will have lost his intelligence.
If the Sun owns the 6th and be conjoined with a malefic and be in the 4th, the person will suffer from heart disease.
If Saturn or Jupiter own the 6th and be in conjunction with a malefic in the 4th, the native will suffer from bilious complaints and trembling or be troubled by the wicked.
If Mars, Saturn and Jupiter be posited in the 4th house, the person will have heart-disease and will invariably suffer from troublesome wounds in the body.
When Mars, occupies the 4th, the Sun, Mercury and Rahu are in the 5th and Saturn is posited in the 8th in any nativity, the person concerned will suffer much misery.
14. If Mars posited in his own house aspects the Ascendant, the person born will be a coward; the same result should be declared when Saturn in the case of a night-birth is in the 10th house.
If Mars occupy the Ascendant, the person concerned will cause discord among his relations.
If Mars be in the 7th without occupying any of his Vargas, the native will be of a good physique; he will further take great interest in war-fare and will be of a very rude and fiery temperament.
15-16. If Mars and Mercury aspect each other by the 7th glance, the person born will be tall.
If the Moon be aspected by Saturn, the Sun and Mars, the native will be sluggish in disposition.
If the waning Moon be conjoined with Mars, the native will do sinful deeds and he will be hot-tempered.
If Mercury posited in the Ascendant should aspect Jupiter by his 7th glance or if Mars and Mercury occupy the 9th house, the person concerned will be intent on producing mirth and ridicule.
If Mars and Mercury be posited in a Rashi owned by Saturn or be aspected by Saturn, the person concerned will be clever in pleasing the sovereign and learned men.
If the Moon posited in a Dusthana aspect Venus, the native will be a wondering nature.
If Mars, Mercury and the Moon be aspected by a strong planet, the person will become inspired with the power of speech.
17. If Venus and Mercury occupy the 7th, 8th and 10th house, the person born will be an adulterer. Venus, and Mars when posited in the 7th, 8th and 10th houses, or the 10th and 4th houses, produce the same result. Venus occupying the 10th house reckoned from the Moon or the 4th house counted from Saturn, causes the same result. A similar effect should be declared when, Venus occupying his sign, Mercury, Venus and Saturn are posited in the 7th and 10th houses.
18. 18. If Saturn should occupy a house which is prior to that occupied by the Moon or Venus, or if the Moon and Venus posited in the Ascendant aspect Saturn, the person born will become subject to ill-fame or disgrace.
If Saturn in conjunction with the Sun be posited in the 4th Kendra, or if Saturn be aspected by Venus and the Moon, or if Saturn be aspected by Venus and the Moon, or if the Sun be eclipsed (if there be Solar eclipse), the native will be put to disgrace by being deprived of his generating organ.
19. If at a birth, Venus be posited in a sign owned by Mars, the person concerned will never be able to give satisfaction to his partner (in the matter of sexual enjoyment). If the lord of the Ascendant occupying his own Rashi should aspect Venus posited in the 7th house, then too, the native will not be able to satisfy his partner. The Moon in conjunction with Saturn when occupying the 10th or the 4th place reckoned from Mars produces the same result.
20. If Venus happening to own the 6th house from the Ascendant be conjoined with Mars, the person concerned will be lustful; and this will be all the more when he is aspected by a malefic.
If Venus be posited in his own Rashi or in Gemini, the native will be infatuated by love.
If Saturn occupy Dhanus or Taurus, identical with the Ascendant, the person concerned will not have much sexual desire.
21-23. Saturn in Capricorn makes the native taciturn (man of few words).
If the Moon owning the 6th house be posited in the invisible hemisphere and be conjoined with a malefic, the person concerned will have a mark or spot in his two eyes.
When the waning Moon is not aspected by Venus, but is aspected by Saturn, or when the Moon posited in his own Rashi is aspected by malefics occupying the 10th or the 7th house, the person born will surely be weak-sighted.
If Mars or the lord of the 8th house occupy the Ascendant and be also aspected by Jupiter or by Venus, the person concerned will be one-eyed.
If Mars be in front of the Sun, the native's sight will be luster-less; if Mercury be in such a position, there will be a spot in the eye.
If Venus be in the 1st or the 8th house and be aspected by a malefic, there will be eye-trouble due to flow of tears.
If Mars and the Moon be conjoined (in a single house and) in the same degree, there will be a spot in the eyes.
Thus should the wise predict after weighing the strength of the concerned planets (causing the yoga). If the Sun occupy the 12th, the 9th or the 5th house and be aspected by strong malefics, the person will be high-minded, but possessed of very defective eyes; Saturn (in the Sun's stead) under the above condition will make the person sickly.
24. If Saturn occupying the 4th house aspect the Moon posited in a Prishtodaya sign, and the lord of the Ascendant be in Aries, the person born will be short in stature.
If the Moon occupying a water-resorting sign be in the 2nd house or be conjoined with Saturn and the Sun be in the Ascendant, the person born will suffer from leprosy.
25. If the Moon happening to be the lord of the 6th house be aspected by malefics and has no benefic aspect, the person born will suffer from enlargement of the spleen.
The result will be similar (enlargement of the spleen) when the Moon owns the 7th or the 1st house and is aspected by malefics.
If Saturn occupying the 4th house , the person born will lose his sight.
If Saturn owns the Ascendant and be afflicted by the conjunction or aspect of malefics, the native will be bereft of happiness.
If Saturn should occupy the Ascendant, the person will suffer from enlargement of the spleen and will have no pleasure or joy.
26. If in a nativity the malefics occupy the Kendras, the person concerned will be defective of some limb. If the two luminaries- the Sun and the Moon - be both posited in Kendras, or if Saturn should cast glance on Venus (posited) in the Ascendant, the person will have some defect in any one of the limbs near the loins or buttocks.
If Venus be in the 4th house and Saturn, Mars or Mercury be conjoined with Jupiter in any house, the person will be defective of some limb near the hips, arms or the feet.
27-28. If the lords of the 8th and 9th houses be conjoined with a malefic, and are placed in the 4th house reckoned from a malefic, the person will have crippled thighs or shanks. If Rahu or the Sun be conjoined with Mars and Saturn and be posited in the 6th, the same effect should be declared. Similarly, if Saturn and the lord of the 6th be posited in the 12th and aspected by malefics, the same result follows.
The Sun, Moon and Saturn, if posited in the 6th and the 8th, will produce pain in the hand.
If Saturn combined with Venus be in the 10th, the native will be impotent. If Saturn be posited in the 12th or the 6th house reckoned from Venus, the result will be more so.
The Moon in Leo aspecting Mars in the 7th will make the native one-eyed; and the Sun in Kataka casting his glance at Mars in the 7th produces the same effect. Similarly, the lord of the 9th occupying any one of the Rasis-Aries, Leo, Scorpio and Capricorn will bring about the same result.
29. The following are six planetary yogas tending severally to the production of a eunuch:
(1) The Sun and the Moon in opposition and therefore mutually aspecting.
(2) Saturn and Mercury in opposition and so mutually aspecting.
(3) Mars aspecting the Sun stationed an even sign.
(4) Mars aspecting the Ascendant and the Moon both being in an odd sign.
(5) The Moon and Mercury in odd and even signs being aspected by Mars.
(6) Venus, the Moon and the Ascendant occupying Rashis (or Navamsha) belonging to odd signs.
30. If Venus combined with Mars occupy the 8th house, the native will have enlarged scrotum owning to the vitiation of the humor (Vata = wind); similar result will be produced form the earth when Venus conjoins with Mars and is posited in the house of Mars.
Persons at whose birth Venus and the Moon are posited in a sign of Mars and are aspected by Jupiter and Saturn will invariably have enlarged scrotum from the time of conception.
31. Dhanus, Taurus or Aries be the Ascendant and be aspected by malefics the person born will have irregular teeth.
He will have a bald head in whose birth Aries, Scorpio, Leo, Capricorn or Aquarius (sings ruled by malefics), or Dhanus or Taurus is rising and is aspected by malefics.
If all the malefics be posited in the 9th, 2nd, 12th and the 5th houses, the man will suffer imprisonment. Should in the above case Aries, Dhanus or Taurus be rising, he will further be put in chains or bound by ropes.
32. If Venus occupy a house of Saturn, the person's body will emit foul smell. The same effect should be predicted (1) when the lord of the 6th house occupies a sign owned by Mercury (Gemini or Virgo) or Capricorn; or (2) when Venus occupying a sign of Mercury is conjoined with that planet and is in a Kendra; or (3) when Venus and Saturn are posited in their own Trimsamsas. Similarly foul smell will be emitted from the face of the native when the Moon occupies Aries identical with the Ascendant.
33. Thus should astrologers predict, after a careful deliberation with a keen intellect the good and bad effects arising at the birth of persons from the combination of planets which are capable of giving both auspicious and inauspicious results.
34. In this beautiful work named Jatakalankara, the chapter on Yogas has thus been composed with 33 charming verses by Ganesha, the learned astrologer, for the delectation of the wise.
