Astroyana research · yogas

How special is your “special” yoga?

Paid chart readings often present auspicious planetary combinations, or yogas, as rare or royal. We ran the yoga detector across 50,000 charts and counted each result. Famous yogas were more common than their reputation suggests, and most charts contained several. The presence of one yoga therefore says less than its strength and context.

Famous yogas appear in many charts

Gajakesari, Budha-Aditya and the generic Raja and Dhana yogas are the names you hear most and they show up in a large share of charts. That doesn’t make them meaningless; it means their presence is the beginning of the analysis, not the conclusion. Gajakesari is the clearest example of why the rule matters: the bare “Jupiter in an angle from the Moon” geometry occurs in 33.4% of charts, but once BPHS’s qualifications are applied (a benefic joining or aspecting Jupiter; no debilitation, combustion or enemy sign) only 14.5% qualify. The chart below uses the qualified figure.

The five “great person” yogas

The Pancha Mahapurusha yogas form when Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus or Saturn is exalted or in its own sign in an angle. Each is individually uncommon, but with five chances, about a third of charts have at least one.

Other measured yogas

Beyond the famous names sit dozens more — some lunar, some about wealth or learning, some rarer. Here is how a selection of them land across the sample. Not every named yoga is auspicious: Asubha, Daridra or Kemadruma forms in 71.4% of charts, and none of them is counted as auspicious in this study.

What this means

Most charts contain at least one yoga. What distinguishes one chart from another is the yoga’s strength: the dignity of its planets, the houses involved and whether its period occurs in the dasha timeline. A claim about a “rare yoga” should be checked against that full context.

Methodology

Synthetic study — no real user data. Birth moments are sampled uniformly across the date range and clock; birthplaces are sampled across major Indian cities weighted by population. Percentages are the mathematical base rate per birth moment, not a population census. Reproducible from the committed script with the fixed seed. A yoga counts once per chart even if it forms more than once. 'Auspicious' means any yoga outside the engine's 'negative' family (Asubha, Daridra) and other than Kemadruma, the isolated-Moon yoga that is also a dosha. Gajakesari is reported under both engine rules: the BPHS Ch.36 qualified reading (the engine default) and the received 'Jupiter in a kendra from the Moon' rule.

With N=50,000 the 95% Monte-Carlo half-width of a published percentage is ±0.44 points near 50% and ±0.19 points near 5%. That is the uncertainty of the base rate itself; because the seed is fixed, re-running the script on the same engine reproduces every figure exactly.

Sample size

50,000 charts

Birth date range

1950-01-01 to 2009-12-31

Timezone

IST (UTC+5:30)

Birth hour

uniform

Locations

population-weighted across 25 major Indian cities

Ayanamsa

lahiri

Nodes

mean

House system

whole_sign

Engine version

0.14.0

Engine commit

f9d0474057d6

Swiss Ephemeris

2.10.03 (pyswisseph 2.10.3.2)

Precision (95%)

±0.44 pp

Generated on

2026-10-10

Dataset revision

2

Seed

20260603

FAQ

Free to cite with attribution to Astroyana. Figures are the mathematical base rate per birth moment from a synthetic sample, computed with our Swiss-Ephemeris (Lahiri) engine — not a survey of real people, and not a claim about anyone’s life.