Sanskrit: “royal union”
A relationship — conjunction, mutual aspect, or exchange of signs — between the lord of a kendra (1st, 4th, 7th, 10th) and the lord of a trikona (1st, 5th, 9th).
The broad class of yogas indicating rise in status, authority and recognition. Kendras represent action in the world and trikonas represent merit; a link between their lords is read as merit expressed as position.
Raja Yoga is a category, not a single combination, and some form of it appears in a great many charts — which is why the term is so freely and loosely used. Its strength depends entirely on the dignity of the planets involved and whether their dasha periods actually arrive during your working life.
Our engine doesn't currently detect Raja Yoga automatically, so we won't claim it either way. Generate your free kundli to see your planetary positions, house placements and dignities, then check the condition above against them yourself.
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.
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