How to Verify a Yoga in a Kundli
Check a yoga using chart settings, planet signs, lagna, the exact rule and a counterexample. Keep uncertain inputs and prediction claims separate.
Overview
To verify a yoga, reproduce the relevant chart fields and test the stated conditions one by one. Save the rule, reference point and failed conditions, not just a yes/no badge.
At a glance
- Inputs
- Birth data and declared chart settings
- Rule record
- Source, chart division and reference
- Result types
- Pass, fail or unresolved
- Separate question
- Whether an interpretation is supported
Freeze the inputs and the rule
Record the date, civil time, location, time-zone conversion and chosen ayanamsa. Then identify whether the rule uses D1, another division, lagna or a different reference. Changing settings between screenshots prevents a meaningful comparison.
Copy the operative condition into a short checklist with its source locator. A missing birth time may leave lagna unresolved even if a planet’s sign is stable. In that case, a lagna-based yoga is unresolved, not absent and not confirmed.
A worked pass and a deliberate failure
Take a synthetic D1 with Cancer lagna and Jupiter in Cancer. Under Rao’s Hamsa rule, Jupiter occupies an allowed sign and the first house from lagna. Both basic conditions pass; no personal outcome has been calculated.
Keep Jupiter fixed and change only lagna to Leo. Cancer is now the twelfth house, so the quadrant condition fails. Saving this counterexample helps detect a checker that tests exaltation but silently forgets the lagna requirement.
Recheck boundaries and report disagreements
If an uncertain time places lagna on either side of a sign boundary, preserve both scenarios. Do not select the version with more favorable labels. A disagreement can arise from settings, a source variant or an implementation error; identify which before interpreting.
Rao §11.1 motivates checking software lists, and §11.4 gives the example’s rule. This page is a verification method, not an operating yoga calculator or a claim that OpenFate currently implements every rule in the catalog.
Sources and editorial basis
- P. V. R. Narasimha Rao: Vedic Astrology — An Integrated ApproachRao, §11.1, printed p.112: software-list caution; §11.4.5, p.118: Jupiter/sign/lagna-quadrant Hamsa condition. Each locale uses an original reference-change counterexample. Verification records and unresolved-input stops are editorial methods. Traditional definitions are not scientific validation of personal outcomes.A named practitioner’s introduction to Jyotish. Used for terminology and a stated method, not universal school agreement or scientific validation. The added March 18, 2010 note describes changed views; it does not establish a fully revised 2010 edition.
- OpenFate Editorial MethodologyOpenFate Editorial Methodology, stable sections #editorial-principles, #editorial-workflow, #editorial-ai, and #editorial-context. Used for the calculation/interpretation and evidence-boundary policy.OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.