Sanskrit: “poverty”
Most commonly described as the 11th lord (gains) placed in a dushthana — the 6th, 8th or 12th house — or afflicted lords of the 2nd and 11th.
Financial difficulty, debt, and gains that fail to consolidate.
The name alone makes this a favourite of predatory readings. Definitions vary widely, the condition is frequently offset elsewhere in a chart, and no combination in a birth chart determines an economic outcome. If a reading leads with this and ends with a price list, walk away.
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Create your free kundliA note on how to hold any of this: a yoga is one feature of a chart among many, and no combination decides a life on its own. Classical texts frequently disagree on exact conditions, and a yoga’s effects are traditionally read as arriving during the dasha periods of the planets involved rather than continuously. Be particularly wary of any reading that names a difficult yoga and then offers to sell you the cure.