7 min · Goal: Apply a consistent five-question filter to any yoga rather than accepting its label.
Base rate. How many charts would have this by simple distribution? A yoga present in a third of the population tells you almost nothing about an individual.
Dignity. Are the forming planets exalted, in their own sign, debilitated, combust? A yoga is only as strong as what makes it.
Functional status. Are those planets benefics for this Lagna, or do they rule dushthanas? A Raja Yoga formed partly by the 8th lord is a more complicated proposition than the name suggests.
Timing. When does the dasha of the forming planets run? A yoga whose period arrives at seventy is a footnote in a working life.
Corroboration. Do other independent factors in the chart point the same way? One yoga never carries a reading.
There are hundreds of yogas and you will not learn them all. But this filter applies to every one of them, including ones you encounter for the first time in a reading someone else has given you or a relative has forwarded.
It is also, plainly, the defence against being sold something. Every predatory reading in this field depends on the listener not asking the base-rate question.
You have the framework from Level 2, the actors from Level 3, and the named combinations from Level 4 — along with a way of deciding how much any of them is worth.
Level 5 puts it into a method: a fixed order for approaching a whole chart rather than a placement, worked through complete examples, and ending with the harder skill of deciding what to say and what to withhold.
A chart has a Raja Yoga formed by the 9th and 10th lords, but both are combust and their dashas run after age seventy. How would you describe it?
Level 5 turns all of this into a method: a fixed order for reading a whole chart, worked through complete examples. It is written and ready to read.
A free account lets you mark lessons complete and work toward the certificate. Nothing here needs one to read.