Sanskrit: “reversed royal union”
The lord of a dushthana (6th, 8th or 12th house) placed in another dushthana. Named by which lord: Harsha (6th lord), Sarala (8th lord), Vimala (12th lord).
A rise that comes through difficulty rather than despite it — the classical idea that two afflictions can cancel one another, producing gain from crisis, competition or loss.
One of the more genuinely interesting yogas, and one of the most over-claimed. It does not mean hardship is absent; it describes people whose advancement tends to come out of the hard passage rather than the smooth one.
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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.
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